Unpaid Water Bills Cause Sanitation Crisis at University of Liberia
Operating expenses at UL go unpaid because government funds have not replaced waived tuition revenues. The Capitol Hill campus now has an open defecation phenomenon due to the lack of water on campus. READ MORE
Repair of Water Main Pipe for Central Monrovia to Take a Week
It will take about a week to repair a water main pipe supplying Johnsonville, Paynesville, Congo Town, Sinkor, and Central Monrovia. READ MORE
Government Hospital gets Donation from Port Authority
The National Port Authority donated US$50,000, two motorbikes, and an ambulance to the Liberian Government Hospital in Buchanan. The donation will allow the hospital to temporarily provide medication to its Grand Bassa patients. READ MORE
Land Rights Act Has Public Misunderstanding and Too Little Funding
The Land Rights Act, adopted last year, is one of Africa's most progressive entitlements to community members who conduct agricultural activities on customary land designated by their community as agricultural. Implementation of the law has stalled due to lack of funding and inconsistent messaging to the public about how the law [...]
Grand Bassa Whooping Cough Outbreak Grows Without Medication
One child has died among 300 infected by whooping cough in District Two, Grand Bassa County in an area bordering Margibi County where several cases have also been discovered. Outpatients at the government hospital in Buchanan were told to purchase their own drugs while inpatients have been asked to transfer to other health centers. READ [...]
River Cess Pilots Birth Control Injections by Community Health Assistants
Community health assistants in River Cess have begun training on how to administer the Sayana Press hormonal birth control injection given every three months to prevent pregnancy. River Cess was selected for the pilot because it is the only county in Liberia where the community health assistant program exists in all [...]
Grand Bassa Students Get Fees Paid by Grand Bassa Diasporans
The United Bassa Citizens in the Americas–Pennsylvania USA Chapter (UNIBOA-PA) on Wednesday, January 23, 2019, made a payment of L$ 343,676 for the school fees of 45 students in Grand Bassa County. With the objective of giving back to their homeland, UNIBOA members are Bassa-speaking Liberian citizens residing in the USA. [...]
Help a Peace Corps Staffer Through the US Government Shutdown
Peace Corps Volunteers are being paid, most field-based training continues, and most pre-service staging events for invitees remain on schedule. But most staffers at home and abroad are not getting paid. You can help staffers and RPCVs now in Federal Civil Service by: Inviting a furloughed federal employee to lunch [...]
Family Literacy Initiative Releases 3 Year Achievement Report
The majority of FLI children have shown considerable progress at the end of the first program year compared to a norming population of American children. During their second and third program year, however, many of the FLI children do not maintain the same level of progress. These differences in growth patterns [...]
Bong Health Facilities Applaud Diasporan Donation of Supplies
Dennis Garsinii, a U.S.-based Bong citizen, donated to health facilities countywide a shipment of supplies that includes gloves, personal protective equipment, surgical and delivery beds, nose masks, and bedding. For transporting and distributing the supplies, Garsinii thanked many in-country, particularly the Development Education Network of Liberia along with former director [...]
Nimba CCC Due US$ 1 M in Government and Private IOUs
At the fourth Nimba County Community College commencement convocation for 126 students in 14 disciplines, newly appointed president Edward Lama Wonkeryor lamented the lack of funds due from key sources, saying: “The college is faced with countless constraints and challenges in the absence of funds from [the county] administration, ArcelorMittal, and the [...]
Bong County Doctors Barred from Discussing Medicine Shortages
A senior medical professional working at the Bong Mines Hospital, who asked a Front Page Africa reporter for anonymity, said medication shortages are becoming a crisis. He said that since President Weah took office last year. there are new decision-making and red tape barriers blocking medicine from reaching government-run health [...]