Cllr. Jerome Verdier, Chairman of the TRC
Liberia’s TRC Presents Final Report
AFRICAN PANORAMA
WATCHING THROUGH THE BIRDS' EYES
In the late 1970s Ethiopia's Marxist military rulers tortured and murdered hundreds of thousands in brutal repressions. Now, one survivor is trying to create a permanent online archive of the so-called Red Terror using the documents the Communist regime, known as the Derg, left behind, reports the BBC's Elizabeth Blunt.
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Recording Ethiopia's Red Terror...
Former ruler Mengistu Haile Mariam (R) oversaw the repressions
Hirut Abebe-Jiri
'THE GREAVES' PROPOSAL'
Dr. K. Moses Nagbe
PROFESSOR K. MOSES NAGBE DISCUSSES THE DIFFUSION OF ENGLISH IN LIBERIA...
K-Moses Nagbe is an established contemporary African writer, having authored several novels, poems and articles. A professor of literature and communications, he has spent the most part of his career teaching creative writing at the University of Liberia. He currently lives in the United States, where he works as an adjunct professor in both Montgomery College and P.G. College in Maryland. In the summer of 2004, Ray Martin Toe had an interview with Professor Nagbe which was published in the old New Democrat website. The interview covers not only how Nagbe began his writing career, but also the factors that have underpinned the diffusion of the English language in Liberia.
The survival and development of children in Liberia ought to be classified as a fundamental human right... READ MORE...
PSALM 27:1-5
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, this I will be confident. One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in his holy temple.
France's Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner was involved in a plot to kill the leader of Guinea's ruling junta, the country's military rulers say. READ MORE...
Liberia: Support War Crimes Prosecutions
A CHILD SOLDIER RECEIVING TRAINING
Lt Toumba Diakite (R) is accused of shooting Moussa Dadis Camara (L)
LIBERIA: PUTTING CHILDREN'S HEALTH FIRST...
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Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has hit out at members of his own party for weakening their rule over the country.
Zanu-PF has been forced to share power with the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) after disputed polls last year.
Senegal imams use prayers to condemn giant statue READ MORE...
“If they could finance a war, wrecked the entire nation and ruined the lives of its people and reduced them to refugees across the world and turned them into pathetic beggars and still walk the street with their heads high up as heroes and leaders of our country, it is certainly not difficult for them to use the wheels of the law to sledge-hammered people like us who have seen through their hypocrisies and viciousness and refused to dance to their whims and caprices.”
PLAIN TRUTH: The Plain Truth Newspaper, one of the most critical local dailies on the President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf-led Government which many prefer to refer to as anti-government, is published by Attorney-At-Law Cyrinus Cephas who claims to have once served as a lawyer of President Sirleaf. The newspaper is printed by the SEAMARCO Printing Press which is owned by Makinde –a Nigerian national.
If President Charles Taylor had a beastly dog in the name of his son Chucky Taylor who went on the rampage attacking and maiming human rights activists, dissident politicians and journalists alike, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has got her own attacking dog in the name of her son Fumba Sirleaf who has invariably gone head wired arbitrarily detaining and poisoning journalists in a Nazi German-like Concentration camp. Fumba, who almost singlehandedly runs the historically vindictive Liberia National Security Agency, may now be said to be a Liberian counterpart of Chemical Ali, the heartless Saddam deputy who allegedly poisoned thousands of dissident Iraqis during Saddam’s reign of terror.
Mr. Cyrenius Cephus, allegedly a former Taylor apologist who publishes the anti-Sirleaf Administration Plain Truth Newspaper, has just been released from the notorious NSA headquarters. The chap, who now complains of a severe breathing difficulty, said he was sprayed with some chemicals while in detention. He said Fumba Sirleaf has effectively turned the NSA headquarters into a de facto concentration camp. Mr. Cephus, whose paper has been an excruciating pain in the neck of the corrupt Sirleaf Administration, published a story based on persistent speculations in Guinea that the queen of armed rebellion in West Africa, to paraphrase the notable Winston Tubman, was the one stirring up the trouble in the neighboring West African country. The Sirleaf Administration has done nothing to officially dispel the nagging speculations, but Fumba has rather punished the dare devil Cephus for washing the Oldma’s dirty linens on the front porch.
A practicing lawyer, Cyrenius Cephus once served as attorney for president Sirleaf when she went after the indomitable New Democrat newspaper some time this year. How the unpredictable Cephus has fallen out with the Iron Lady is another story. In any case, hear him out:
"In an apparent frustration over attempts to have me submit to their strange and emotional trial procedures bordered on recrimination, name calling and harassment, I was ordered stripped off my clothes---shirt, shoes, socks, belt removed and then dumped into a cell that seems quite a “concentration Camp” and runs by Fumba Sirleaf, the son of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf somewhere in the basement of the NSA building. Inside the cell is wet; the walls are slimy due to the little presence of air and light. It is three-room cell each is 3 feet by 4 feet wide with unkempt little mattresses stained with sweats(inside is pretty hot) and smell horrible. The floor is dirty and the bathroom is just two meters away from where I was dumped. You can imagine the horrific stench!"
A Concentration Camp run by Fumba Sirleaf?
The Guinean Crisis: Why Ellen Sirleaf should be placed under a watch...
There are theories in Plain Truth newspaper story about President Sirleaf’s alleged gun running in Guinea. “Behind every fire there is a smoke” has for time immemorial been proven. The incursion into Liberia in 1989 is a common example that there is a smoke behind a fire. The destabilization of the region began with speculations and media reports, which the then government of Samuel Doe denied over and over followed by arrests of journalists.
The last report of dissident activities on the border with Ivory Coast was published by newspapers after some citizens of Nimba County observed suspicious activities there. Unfortunately, journalists were arrested and their papers banned for what Samuel Doe called a “campaign to destabilize the country.” A local chief in Nimba County was suspended by the Internal Affairs minister for disinformation. The local chief was later reinstated after the insurgents crossed the border and the minister of Internal Affairs was fired for negligence in handling sensitive information.
By Thomas Kai Toteh
THE CON QUEEN
THE CON QUEEN
President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
Unlike King David, Sirleaf’s stubbornness permitted her the Presidency, but like David, she is not permitted to build the destroyed city and the Temple of God, which is typecasts in the Providence Baptist Church, the host of our declaration of Independence.
The Lord choose ‘Our wise King Solomon’ to build the city, for his father’s hands were too bloodstained to build after his many years of plunder. This is the debacle of the Foreign Ministry tenant; her hands are stink with the odors of innocent blood, and so she fights against natural spiritual principles that cannot be conquered in prayer! Unless she bows out nothing she does will matter; her destiny is fixated like a gathering rain that must fall in its season. The anointing has shifted to a different direction. Like the King David classic, Saul must give-in to the Lord’s chosen political combatant destined to defeat and humiliate the Goliaths of economic and social hardship. This is the message for the Sirleaf kingdom, and blessed is she that hearkens!
By Mulbah K. Morlu
HAPPY 2010--PEACE BE STILL
Corruption, patronage, mismanagement, squalor and harsh environmental conditions still exacerbate conditions of poverty amongst children across Liberia. These conditions cause many parents to abandon their children to institutions, orphanages, the streets and adoption. Children’s progress in Liberia has come a long way from the widespread hardship they experienced during the past two decades; however, far too many children still lives in chronic poverty without equal access to opportunity for better health, education, and successful future.
The State of the Liberian Child
By Francis W. Nyepon
