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Violence Plagues Civilians in
Southwestern Ivory Coast
Courtesy: VOA
29 September, 2011
Violence continues to plague civilians along Ivory
Coast's volatile southwestern border with Liberia. A
dispute over who won Ivory Coast's presidential poll
plunged the country back into civil war earlier this
year.
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Guinea Police Clash With Protesters, 2
Dead
Courtesy: VOA
28 September, 2011
Witnesses in Guinea say at least two people have been
killed in clashes between security forces and
anti-government protesters.
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Sanniquellie Project Closure
Teleconference
By: SMDF
27 September, 2011
You are hereby invited to a special teleconference that
will announce the final updates and closure of the
Sanniquellie project, which we initiated in July of
2008.
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VAMBA FOFANA – Candidate for ULAA
Regional Vice President
By: Vamba Fofana
27 September, 2011
Vamba S. Fofana was born in Sanoyea Town, Sanoyea
District, Bong County (the “Heartbeat of Liberia”),
Republic of Liberia, West Africa.
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ISLAM’S PERSPECTIVE ON LEADERSHIP AND THOSE BEING LEAD
By: Gofin Kosia
26 September, 2011
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more, the reading audience, Assalaam aleikum (peace be
upon you). I choose to discuss this subject matter due
to its exigency and need in not just our local
communities, but the world at large. Every normal adult
at certain point and time is either a leader of him
self/ her self or of others and is therefore accountable
for them and will be undoubtedly reckoned by Allah (swt).
“And you shall be undeniably questioned about (all of
Allah’s gifts to you).
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Liberia at a Cross Road: Mapping the Way
Forward
By: Lamii Kpargoi
26 September, 2011
This is not the work of a clairvoyant, fortune teller or
soothsayer. It is the work of someone who has keenly
watched happenings in Liberia over the past 25 years;
someone who has taken the country’s political pulse and
has always, albeit privately being right about his
predictions about the course of things.
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FELMAUSA out going VPA receives award in
Sacramento, California
By: Staff writer
25 September, 2011
On September 24, 2011, Hon. Mohammed S. Kromah received
an award from a California base Non-Profit Liberian
organization (Liberia Development Initiatives) LDI.
Hon.Kromah was awarded for his Valuable Contributions
and Extraordinary Leadership to various Liberian
organizations.
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The European Nation of Spain, Madrid is
actively Seeking Paid Volunteer Immigrants
By: Chen Lang
24 September, 2011
Spain is recruiting volunteer workers until the end of
2011. It is now recruiting a Hundred and eighty Thousand
(180,000) unskilled and One Hundred Thousand (100,000)
skilled professional of non-European Union residents
(foreigners) due to the country's new immigration policy
and the aim to boost its economy during the next two
years.
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Former Ivorian Ruling Party Quits
Election Commission
Courtesy: VOA
23 September, 2011
Coast's former ruling party has pulled out of the
electoral commission, saying the new government refuses
to include opponents in planning for coming
parliamentary polls. Ivory Coast's president says he
hopes the former ruling party will take part in that
vote.
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Obama: America's 'first Jewish
president'?
Courtesy: Al Jazeera
23 September, 2011
After the president's speech to the UN, our senior analyst wonders why US
leaders continue to pander to a foreign power. Obama is
the "the first Jewish President". That's the title of
New York magazine's lead article, written by John
Heilemann and quoting a major Obama fundraiser.
Listening to Obama speak at the United Nations on
Wednesday many would nod in agreement, not less in
Palestine and the Arab world.
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Guinea elections to be held in December
Courtesy: France 24 News
22 September, 2011
 Guinea's
long-delayed parliamentary elections will take place on
December 29, more than a year after President Alpha
Conde was elected in the country's first democratic
polls. Guinea's electoral commission on Thursday
announced that long-awaited legislative polls would take
place on December 29, over a year after the country held
its first ever democratic election. "We have just
announced nationally and internationally, to our
partners, government and political actors, the holding
of legislative elections on December 29," elections
chief Louceny Camara told journalists.
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And the keynote speaker is Hon.
Voffee Jabateh of ACANA
Courtesy: VOM
21 September, 2011
 Voice
of Mandingo website has confirmed that Hon. Voffee
Jabateh, Executive Director of the African Culture
Alliance of North America (ACANA), will serve as a
keynote speaker at the inaugural ceremony of FELMAUSA
president-elect, Hon. Mohamed S. Bility. This
long-awaited event is slated for October 8, 2011 in
Philadelphia, PA. Hon. Voffee Jababteh, MSW, an African
immigrant, has led ACANA since 2005. He works under the
supervision of a diverse board of directors.
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FELMAUSA Election Commission Breaks
Silence
Courtesy: VOM News
19 September, 2011
Behind the scenes, the five-member team of FELMAUSA
Independent Election Commission is racing against the
clock to create a working and enforceable calendar for
FELMAUSA by-election. In an interview with a member who
spoke on condition of anonymity as he is not authorized
to speak on behalf of the commission.
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Speaking to the Conscience of the Nation: Why Liberians
Should Re-elect Her Excellency Madam Ellen
Johnson-Sirleaf?
By: Jesefu Morris Keita, Jr.
18 September, 2011
 The
elections of 2005 and the attendant inauguration in 2006
usher in Liberia’s first post-war democratic government
with all segments of our population having a part to
play in the development and growth our country in an
environment characterized by dispensation of justice,
peace, reconciliation and tranquillity. Thus began the
resumption of normal lives for most if not all Liberians
with many of us being overwhelmingly grateful firstly to
God Almighty for allowing us to have come this far as a
people.
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Who Owns the Poverty Reduction Strategy
in Liberia?
By: Saliho A. Donzo
18 September, 2011
The PRS ONE (I) was launched April 1, 2008, with a
projected completion of June 30, 2011. The aim of the
PRS I was to lift a nation that had experienced nearly a
decade and half specifically14 years of civil debacle
(devastation/tragedy).
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PLEASE RESPECT OUR STRUGGLING BROTHERS!
By: Saliho A. Donzo
17 September, 2011
NOWADAYS, we see hundreds of our brothers on the street
of Monrovia, and other parts of the country ridding what
many called Pen-Pen as a means of livelily hood which
has distance most of them from purported heinous
activities.
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FELMAUSA Board of Directors’ Disposition
By: Ishmael Komara
17 September, 2011
On September 12, 2011, the Board of Directors of
FELMAUSA sent a letter to the executive leadership
of our noble federation through the office of the
President. In the letter, the Board made the following
request that:
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ISLAM AND SOCIETY
By: Gofin Kosia
16 September, 2011
 All
praise is due to Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful,
who has guided us (Muslims) to this path of guidance
(Islam), for we could have not and would have not been
guided by our own smartness and volition had it not been
the guidance of the Supreme Guide (Allah). “Indeed, all
prophets and messengers have brought not less than the
truth from Allah (swt) to their respective ummah
(communities), and on the day of reckoning, it would be
announced loudly and clearly to the righteous company,
enter you the garden of your Lord, reaping the fruits
you have sewn”.
Qur’an 7:43. May Allah enjoin us with such noble
group.
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Momentum Grows as FELMAUSA 2011
Inauguration Draws Closer
Courtesy: VOM News
16 September, 2011
Momentum for the much-anticipated inauguration of
FELMAUSA president-elect, Hon. Mohamed S. Bility, grows
as the event draws closer. Organizers of the event
predict that the number of chapter members, friends and
well wishers expected to descend on Philadelphia could
exceed the 2011 national convention.
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ECOWAS Officials to Assess Liberia
Security Ahead of Elections
Courtesy: VOA
15 September, 2011
 Ambassador
James Victor Gbeho, president of the Economic Community
of West African States (ECOWAS) commission, said his
group is coordinating with Liberia’s electoral body to
ensure a free and fair vote. His comments come as the
heads of state of Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana,
Liberia, Nigeria and Senegal met in a mini-summit last
week in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja. The leaders expressed
concern about the security situation “along the corridor
between the two member states and within Liberia,
characterized by.”
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LIMAP AND THE ERA OF POLITICAL JINGOSIM: PESIDENT LAMINE
KROMAH VOUCHES TO FIGHT ALL THE WAY
By :Abubakarseleke Soko Sackor
13 September, 2011
LIMAP strong man, President Lamine M. Kromah, one of the
most, if not the most popular community leader today in
Mandingo politics in America, remains firm and adamant
with his resolve to abrogate any attempt on the part of
the new FELMAUSA incoming leadership to force an
illegitimate inaugural committee to transgress upon his
line of demarcation (there will be no inauguration on
the soil of the State of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania).
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Liberia's Candidates to be Made Public
for October Election
Courtesy: VOA
11 September, 2011
The National Elections Commission of Liberia (NEC) is
expected to announce Friday the names of legislative and
presidential candidates considered qualified to stand in
the October general election.
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President Kromah calls on Felmausa to
halt all pre-inaugural activities till……..
By: Independent Reporter, Philadelphia
09
September, 2011
(Philadelphia: Sept. 9, 2011): The President of LIMAP,
Mr. Lamine Kromah is calling on Felmausa and its
inaugural committee to halt, with immediate effect, all
pre-inaugural activities and formalities till all
pre-conditions for selecting a chapter for a given event
are followed, acknowledged, and met. When asked whether
he has received any form of communication from Felmausa,
requesting LIMAP to host the inaugural program, Mr.
Kromah said, yes, but not on time.Read
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DEATH ANNOUNCEMENT: Mahaja
Siasia Jabateh-Kromah, mother of late Hon. Ansumana
Sumayela
Kromah is dead
By:Vakise Kromah
08 September, 2011
To God be the glory! The death is announced of
Mahaja Siasia Jabateh -Kromah of Monrovia ,Liberia. This
sad event occurred on September 8th, 2011 in Monrovia
.The late Mahaja Siasia was the mother of the late
Hon. Ansumana Sumayela Kromah and the grand mother of
Her. Majesty Siasia Kromah.
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It is confirmed, October 8, 2011 is
FELMAUSA Inauguration
Courtesy: VOM
07 September, 2011
Voice of Mandingo website has confirmed news report that
the inauguration of FELMAUSA President-elect, Mohamed S.
Bility, including other elected officials will be held
in the brotherly city of Philadelphia on Saturday.
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New York Police Department Eyed 250-Plus
Mosques
Courtesy: Officer.com
07 September, 2011
The New York Police Department collected intelligence on
more than 250 mosques and Muslim student groups in and
around New York, often using undercover officers and
informants to canvas the Islamic population of America's
largest city, according to officials and confidential,
internal documents obtained by The Associated Press.
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THIS IS THE TIME FOR DEEDS NOT WORDS!!!
By: Musa V. Willie
06 September, 2011
The results of the August 23rd, 2011 National Referendum
have created a dark cloud over the political process of
Liberia. According to Article 52 C) of the Liberian
Constitution, No person shall be eligible to hold the
office of President or Vice-President, unless that
person is a resident in the Republic ten years prior to
his election, provided that the President and the
Vice-President shall not come from the same County.
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The Wisconsin Mandingo Association of Milwaukee (WIMAM)
Issues Position Statement in reaction to recent Chapter
Heads meeting.
By: Manyou MAS Bility, Secretary General
3rd September, 2011
 Wisconsin
Mandingo Association Of Milwaukee (WIMAM)’s Position
Statement on the “Chapter Heads of the Federation of
Mandingo Association in the United States of America (FELMAUSA)
issued Statement which included a threat possible
boycott of next scheduled FELMAUSA inauguration . “
The members and officials of the Wisconsin Mandingo
Association of Milwaukee (WIMAM) including President
Morris Manjue Kromah are taking this time to distance
themselves from the Position Statement of FELMAUSA’s
Chapter heads.
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Liberian Candidate Qualifications Could
be Challenged
Courtesy: VOA
1 September, 2011
An official of Liberia’s National Elections Commission
(NEC) said October’s presidential elections will go
ahead as scheduled following the results of the
constitutional referendum. The commission announced
Wednesday that voters rejected all four propositions,
including the controversial one to reduce the number of
consecutive years a presidential candidate must have
resided in Liberia from 10 to five.
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