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Nigeria Army Sets to Deploy 230 Troops to Liberia Again

Kunle Atiba — Sun, 30 Jul 2017 15:55:23 +0000

Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai disclosed that the Nigerian Army is to deploy 230 personnel, including 19 officers and 211 soldiers to Liberia. Buratai charged the officers to shun acts that could tarnished Nigeria’s image. He gave the advice while speaking in Kaduna at the end of a a four-week intensive training on [...]

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Rising fears in Liberia after new Ebola Fatality

AMA — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 15:24:24 +0000

A teenager has died in Liberia in the first such death since the country was officially declared free of the virus in September, according to an official. Francis Karteh, head of Liberia’s national Ebola crisis unit, told AFP news agency on Tuesday that the teenager’s parents had also tested positive for the virus and were [...]

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New Ebola case emerged in Liberia

AMA — Sat, 21 Nov 2015 14:13:37 +0000

A new case of Ebola has been identified in Liberia, a country declared free of the deadly disease in September, health officials have said. The patient, a 10-year-old boy in Paynesville, a suburb east of the capital Monrovia, felt sick on November 14 and was hospitalised three days later, Bruce Aylward, the head of the [...]

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Tale of a Refugee: Daring to Dream

AMA — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 18:49:57 +0000

Utrecht, The Netherlands – When actor Bright O Richards came to Holland as a refugee of the Liberian civil war, he bought himself a pair of brightly coloured wooden shoes. He wore them everywhere he went. As an African in clogs, he attracted a lot of attention. Everywhere he went, people would strike up a [...]

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Security Council authorizes further downsizing of UN peacekeeping force in Liberia

UN News — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 23:35:06 +0000

2 April 2015 – The United Nations Security Council today adopted a resolution authorizing the third phase of a drawdown of the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia to 3,590 military personnel and 1,515 police personnel, and deciding that the Mission’s mandate would no longer include electoral support. The text reaffirms the Council’s expectation that the [...]

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Stranded Liberian Migrants Return Home from Neighbouring West African Countries

Adewale A. — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 09:52:00 +0000

GENEVA, Switzerland, November 19, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — A group of 353 Liberian migrants stranded in Ghana is returning home by air through the end of this month, thanks to an IOM voluntary return programme. The movements, in groups of 50, are part of a regional project spanning West Africa, which aims to assist [...]

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Innovative Project Improving Food Value Chain to be Launched in Monrovia

Adewale A. — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 15:55:00 +0000

MONROVIA, Liberia, November 18, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — An innovative project aimed at reducing rural poverty and household food insecurity will be launched on November 19 in Monrovia. The Smallholder Agricultural Productivity Enhancement and Commercialization (SAPEC) project is jointly financed by the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) (http://www.gafspfund.org) and the African Development [...]

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