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Liberia: Expelled Montserrado District 10 Lawmaker Who Vowed Never to Beg Pres. Boakai Now Calls for Reconciliation
by Selma Lomaxby Selma LomaxMONROVIA — In Liberian public life, a man’s word is currency, and a man’s oath is something close to a mortgage on his name. Yekeh Kolubah took out a heavy one….
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Liberia: As Talk of a Truce with President Boakai Swirls, Ex-Lawmaker Kolubah Says He Regrets His Relationship with the Liberian Leader
by Selma Lomaxby Selma LomaxMONROVIA – Liberian politics has no shortage of dramatic turnarounds, but few would have raised eyebrows like this one. Yekeh Kolubah, the outspoken former Mont…
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Liberia: Bong Filled Pelelei with Praise for Ex-Supt. Jackson, Dead at 74, Yet Never Gave Him the Senate Seat in Four Tries
by Selma Lomaxby Selma LomaxPELELEI, Zota District, Bong County – The women came first, and they came together. Members of the Bong County Women Organization filed into the funeral grounds…
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Liberia: National Traditional Liaison Officer Says CDC Could Win Bong Again as Unity Party Battles Internal Divisions
by Selma Lomaxby Selma LomaxGBARNGA, Bong County – A senior Liberian government official from Bong County says the opposition Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) has a realistic chance o…
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Liberia: Tarpeh Under Fire After Calling CDC Supporters ‘Mentally Deranged’ Over Lone Star Defeat
by Selma Lomaxby Selma LomaxMONROVIA – The final whistle had barely faded on Tuesday when the debate moved from the pitch to the timeline. Liberia had lost at home to Mali in the ongoing A…
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Liberia: How Chief Justice Gbeisay’s Judiciary is Bringing the Gavel Closer to the Ordinary in Bong County
by Selma Lomaxby Selma LomaxGBARNGA, Bong County — Ask most Liberians what the word “court” conjures, and the answer rarely involves comfort. For decades, the courthouse has stood in the p…
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Liberia: Rep. Jacob Debee Receiving Treatment at Phebe Hospital After Road Accident in Bong County
by Selma Lomaxby Selma LomaxSUAKOKO DISTRICT –Grand Gedeh County’s District Three lawmaker, Representative Jacob Debee, is currently hospitalized after being involved in a road accident al…
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Liberia: Former Ganta Mayor Suah Faces Court Summons Amid Escalating Feud with Chief Justice Gbeisay Over Nimba Land Row
by Selma Lomaxby Selma LomaxGOMPA, Nimba County — A bitter property dispute in Gompa City has widened into a direct clash between the judiciary and local politics, after the Gompa Magister…
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Liberia: How a Failed Harvest Locked an Entire Generation Out of School in Bong County
by Selma Lomaxby Selma LomaxKpolokplah Public School relied entirely on volunteer teachers since the government never assigned staff, leaving the PTA to fund salaries through farming and c…
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Liberia: After the Ballot: How William Thompson Is Rebuilding His Political Footprint in Bong District Six
by Selma Lomaxby Selma LomaxBONG COUNTY — In Liberian politics, an election defeat can sometimes bring an abrupt end to a politician’s visibility. For William Telebo Thompson, however, the…
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Liberia: Broken Roofs, Empty Classrooms: Beletanla and Blemeyea Schools Struggle in Bong County
by Selma Lomaxby Selma LomaxBONG COUNTY – In the villages of District Two, the school day does not always end with the bell. At one school, it can end with the rain. At another, it …
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Liberia, UNDP to Host UN Side Event Linking Climate Change, Conflict and Natural Resources to the Search for Lasting Peace
by Selma Lomaxby Selma LomaxMONROVIA – Liberia will use the global spotlight of the United Nations General Assembly to make the case that a changing climate and a fragile peace cannot be t…
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Beyond the $1B Milestone: Liberians React to Historic Revenue Gains, Demand ‘Real Impact’
by Selma Lomaxby Selma LomaxMonrovia – Over the past few days, FrontPage Africa reporters have traveled across Liberia — from the market corridors of Monrovia and Paynesville to the tradin…
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Liberia: Senator Snowe Convenes NPP Leaders, Suspended Partisans in Unity Talks
by Selma Lomaxby Selma LomaxMONROVIA – A private residence in the ELWA community in Paynesville became the setting for a pivotal internal conversation within the National Patriotic Party (…
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Liberia: Bong County Attorney Jonathan Flomo Renews Push for Homicide Charges in Fatal Road Accident Cases
by Selma Lomaxby Selma LomaxGBARNGA – Bong County Attorney Jonathan Flomo has reignited a long-standing debate over how Liberia’s justice system handles road fatalities, calling on the Lib…
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Liberia: When Silence Meets a Shutdown: The New Totota School Crisis No One Acted On Until It Went Viral
by Selma Lomaxby Selma LomaxMONROVIA – According to an unconfirmed report reaching FrontPage Africa, the Ministry of Education has ordered a suspension of academic activities at New Totota…
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Liberia: Whispers of a Handshake: Inside the Rumor Mill Surrounding Kolubah and Pres. Boakai
by Selma Lomaxby Selma LomaxMONROVIA — Rumors move fast in Liberian politics, but few in recent memory have traveled as quickly, or generated as much chatter, as the reports now circulatin…
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Liberia: One Life Liberia, Urey-Yarkpawolo Foundation Launch L$2M Scholarship Fund for 500 Zota Students
by Selma Lomaxby Selma LomaxZOTA DISTRICT, BONG COUNTY — In the town of Shankpallai, where Dr. Emmanuel K. Urey Yarkpawolo grew up and eventually left to build a career in environmental ad…
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Liberia: Saclepea Mayor Under Fire After Admitting GOL Awarded MDR Contract in Nimba, Then Backtracks
by Selma Lomaxby Selma LomaxSACLEPEA, Nimba County — In Saclepea, Nimba County, the promise of newly paved streets should ordinarily be a welcome development. Instead, a government road pr…
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Liberia: How Sen. Moye Helped Steer Unity Party Lofa County Through Years of Division and a High-Stakes Leadership Contest
by Selma Lomaxby Selma LomaxVOINJAMA, Lofa County — Long before the first ballot was cast last week, the Unity Party’s county convention in Lofa had already become a political test. The qu…
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Liberia: NPA Security Director Charles Roberts Under Fire for Calling MDR Lawmaker ‘Monkey’
by Selma Lomaxby Selma LomaxMONROVIA — Charles Roberts, Security Director at the National Port Authority and a vocal supporter of the ruling Unity Party, Wednesday described Nimba County l…
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Liberia: Prince Johnson’s Shadow: Kogar’s War On Boakai, Koung Exposes Nimba’s Deepening Political Fault Line
by Selma Lomaxby Selma LomaxMonrovia — Senator Samuel Kogar’s latest attack on President Joseph Boakai and Vice President Jeremiah Koung is bigger than a quarrel over Liberia’s proposed Wa…
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Liberia: Ex-Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor to Receive Medical Care at Residence Under Restrictions as Drug Case Continues
by Selma Lomaxby Selma LomaxMONROVIA — Former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor is set to receive medical attention outside detention under strict conditions imposed by Criminal Court “C”…