Referendum Election
Liberians are voting on two referendums on 8 December 2020: Shortening the presidential term to 5 years Repealing the dual nationality ban.
Thomas-Greenfield to be Biden’s UN ambassador
Obama's former ambassador to Liberia, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, is Biden's choice to be his ambassador to the UN. President-elect Biden is planning to elevate the post of U.N. ambassador to Cabinet level.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield joins Biden Transition Team
The former US Ambassador to Liberia is now a volunteer member of the Joe Biden Agency Review Team working on transitioning the US Department of State. She was appointed by former President Barack Obama in [...]
Jerry John Rawlings, former president of Ghana
After a short illness, Jerry Rawlings died at age 73 in a hospital in the capital of Ghana, Accra. "Liberia remembers his immense contribution to the attainment and sustainment of peace during the dark days [...]
Two Liberian organizations raise awareness about COVID with FOL grant
The Community Women’s Initiative for Children of Ebola Victims (COWICEV) and the Positive Change Women and Girls Initiative (POCHAWOIN) were the first joint-group to receive a COVID-19 project grant. Now they've begun their implementation. Focusing [...]
Watch the amazing wildlife of Grebo-Krahn National Park in Liberia
The Wild Chimpanzee Foundation filmed the critically endangered western chimpanzee, Diana monkey, King colobus, and pygmy hippopotamus. The lighting and clarity of these species is incredibly rare, as noted by our Member-At-Large, Richard Nisbett: [...]
Chocolate Made in Liberia
Redimere Chocolates was established to help students pay their school fees by making chocolate products from locally grown cocoa beans. It all started in 2017 when some students and staff in the Agriculture Department at [...]
Two Hospitals Get COVID-19 Prevention Supplies from FOL Grant
C.B. Dunbar Maternity Hospital and Phebe Hospital in Bong County got materials to prevent transmission of COVID-19 through a grant from Friends of Liberia. The grant provides funds to buy prevention materials for communities and [...]
FOL and Friends of Tonga host author of Peace Corps memoir
Friends of Liberia and Friends of Tonga hosted author Susan E. Greisen, who wrote a memoir of her time in Peace Corps Liberia and Peace Corps Tonga. In case you missed it, we recorded the [...]
We have raised $9,525 – we are almost there…
We have 65 Global Giving donors who have helped us raise $9,525 to date to help Improve Nursing and Midwifery Care in Liberia ! We are only $475 away from our original goal, with over [...]