10,000 Mpox Vaccine Doses on the Way to Liberia
Liberia is set to receive 10,000 doses of the mpox vaccine to help protect the country from the outbreak which has claimed at least 1,000 lives worldwide….
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Joseph DanielsReporting Fellow, OkayFM
Joseph Daniels reports for OK FM Liberia, a privately owned independent Media outlet in Monrovia. With a vested interest in making the voices of people from different walks of life heard, he has covered investigative stories relating to Education, Health, the Environment Corruption and Violence against Women and Girls among others. He graduated from the United Methodist…
Experts Say Clean Cookstoves Are Essential to Protecting Forests and Health, Then What is the Hold Up?
By Tina S. Mehnpaine with New Narratives Deborah Ellis was like most Liberians when it came to cooking. She held on to her traditional cookpot, and changing to an imported cookstove was not an option. “I didn’t trust it,” Ellis says. But one day her traditional cookpot was damaged, and she decided to give a…
Liberia’s New Abortion Law Among Most Liberal in Africa, Faces Hurdle in Senate
Liberia’s new public health law, which was passed by the House of Representatives in 2022, is currently being debated in a special session by the Senate where it is facing a barrage of opposition from abortion opponents. A provision in the bill, which contains a range of other public health elements, would make abortion legal up to 18 weeks of pregnancy as long as it is done by a doctor, the most liberal in Africa….
South Africa Makes Big Improvements in Public Transport. Can Ghana Do the Same?
Here in one of Africa’s biggest cities commuters have all the same needs as they do across the continent. But compared to other bustling cities, including Ghana’s capital, Accra, commuters here have a major advantage: modern public transport. …
Dusty Roads Causing Dangerous Respiratory Infections Across Rural Ghana
Ebenezer Danso, a 19-year-old battling severe asthma, recently came perilously close to losing his life….
Liberia: French Court of Appeal upholds Guilty Verdict for Liberian Warlord
An appeal court here has upheld the 2022 conviction of Kunti Kamara, a former commander of the Ulimo rebel group, for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Lofa County during Liberia’s first civil war….
Liberia: Lawyers for Former Rebel Commander Demand French Appeal Court to Acquit
As the appeal of a former commander of the rebel group Ulimo, of his 2022 war crimes conviction enters its final days, defense lawyers for Kunti Kamara called on the three judge panel and nine jurors to overturn the conviction saying there is a lack of evidence Kamara committed the crimes. …
Liberia: French Court Of Appeal Throws Out Rebel Commander Claim he was Underage When Crimes Took Place
The judge in former Liberian warlord, Kunti Kamara’s appeal of his 2022 conviction for war crimes, dealt a blow to Kamara’s case on Monday by striking out his two challenges to the charges….
Liberia: Defense Lawyers Claim Statute of Limitations Means Rebel Cannot be Tried for 1993 War Crimes
Lawyers defending Liberian warlord, Kunti Kamara, in his appeal of his 2022 conviction for war crimes, advanced their second challenge to the case in court Friday, arguing that France’s statute of limitations for such crimes is ten years meaning Kamara should not have been charged in 2018 with the crimes that took place in 1993….
Liberia: Former Liberia TRC Commissioner Gives Emotional Testimony of War Atrocities to French Appeal Court
Massa Washington took many pauses. Her voice trembled with sorrow. When she could not control it, the former commissioner with Liberia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, sobbed quietly, a testament to the trauma she still carries as a victim of the war and from hearing the testimonies of 22,000 victims of Liberia’s civil wars….
Liberia: Defense Witness Contradicts Rebel Commander’s Claim he Was Not in Civilian Areas in Paris Court
One of former Ulimo rebel commander Kunti Kamara’s own witnesses contradicted his testimony in Kamara’s appeal of his 2022 conviction for war crimes here on Wednesday….
Liberia: Former Rebel Commander Confirms Human Beings Killed, Cut into Pieces, and Sold in Wheelbarrow in Foya in French Court
“Fine Boy” Kamara was one of the most notorious leaders of the Ulimo rebel group when it terrorized the town of Foya, Lofa County in Liberia between 1993 and 1994….
Convicted Liberian Rebel Leader Tells French Court Guinean Government Supported Rebel Faction
War convict, Kunti Kamara, told the French court hearing his appeal of his 2022 conviction here for war crimes that his faction, that his rebel faction United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy (ULIMO) was heavily supported by the Guinea government. …
Former “War Wife” and Conscript Accuse Liberian Rebel Commander of Murder, Torture, Rape and Cannibalism in French War Crimes Appeal
The first victim to testify that he had served as a rebel under Ulimo commander Kunti Kamara appeared in Kamara’s appeal of his 2022 conviction for war crimes here on Friday. …
Convicted War Criminal Kosiah Gives Fiery Defense in French Appeal of Fellow Rebel Commander
In a wandering, combative and, at times angry, testimony convicted warlord Alieu Kosiah laid out an argument that he and his former Ulimo ally Kunti Kamara, whose appeal of his 2022 war crimes conviction was the forum for Thursday’s appearance, were innocent….
Liberia: Former Rebel Lashes Out at Accusers in Appeal of French War Crimes Conviction
Convicted war criminal Kunti Kamara lashed out at the plaintiffs and witnesses who have testified him here in week two of his appeal of his 2022 conviction for crimes against humanity….
Liberia: Witnesses Tell Paris Appeal Court that Ulimo Brought Terror and Anarchy to Lofa County
Witnesses from Foya in Lofa County gave the court hearing former rebel leader Kunti Kamara’s appeal of his 2022 war crimes conviction a deeper sense of the terror and chaos that his group, Ulimo, rained down on the town during the rebel group’s occupation in 1993….
Liberia: Victims Tell French Appeal Trial of Cannibalism, Rape and Torture by Ulimo
The first Liberian victims, who are part of the case against convicted war criminal Kunti Kamara, testified today in Kamara’s appeal of his 2022 conviction….
Liberia Present Day Politics Enter Paris Court as Jury Hears of Passage of War Crimes Court Bill
The 4,400 miles between France and Liberia closed on Friday when present day news from Liberia made it into the appeal hearing here of convicted war criminal Kunti Kamara….
Liberia: Judge Weighs Defense Motion To Abandon Kamara War Crimes Appeal in France
Defense lawyers in the appeal of Kunti Kamara of his 2022 conviction for crimes against humanity, called for the trial to be abandoned on Wednesday. …