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President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has again assured all Liberians that the government will be inclusive, saying the government is not composed of only senior ministers.

Reports reaching this paper say Ivorian soldiers on Friday raided a Liberian village called Nicko, about 12 km west of Toe Town in Grand Gedeh, adopting one person and making away with several items, including gallons of gasoline.

The history of Liberia, West Africa, is a country whose very founding as a nation was inextricably linked to the United States.

Members of the House of Representatives Thursday summoned Acting Mayor Mary Broh of the Monrovia City Cooperation to appear next Tuesday to defend the exorbitant fees charged for parking vehicles in Monrovia without security assurances.

A week and a half ago, on Martin Luther King day here in the US, Liberia's 24th president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was sworn in for her second term in office .

Monrovia - Smartly seated behind his computer, crunching out numbers and making calls to colleagues, Anthony*, a 38-year-old father of three, is amongst those looking to check the spread of HIV in Liberia.

The Thief River Falls Evangelical Free Church is sponsoring a missions trip to Liberia from Feb.

President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf Thursday announced a new policy measure that would require all high-level political appointees, particularly cabinet ministers to sign a one-year performance contract by which they will be evaluated to stay on.

Cellcom GSM Company has promised to sponsor the communication aspect of this year's Miss Liberia Beauty Pageant expected to be hosted by CT.

Accra, Feb. 2, GNA - The West African Monetary Institute and the African Capacity Building Foundation , have signed a $2million grant agreement to strengthen the ability of the Institute and stakeholders to attain the monetary union goal by 2015.

Aureus Mining has today announced an NI 43-101 compliant maiden reserve for its New Liberty Gold Project at its Bea Mountain mining licence, Liberia.

The Liberian Senate will today, Wednesday, February 1, 2012 begin confirmation proceedings of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf's cabinet nominees.

It appears the clouds of agitation and bitterness, which have hovered over the country since October when politicians and larger Liberian public were embroiled into uproarious electoral contestations, are now giving way to reason and maturity.

Samaritan's Purse, an internationally recognized Christian non-Governmental organization, has announced the construction of a 100 bedroom Hospital in the country.

Nobel Peace Prize officials were facing a formal inquiry over accusations they have drifted away from the prize's original selection criteria by choosing such winners as President Barack Obama, as the nomination deadline for the 2012 awards closed Wednesday.

Lawyers for former Liberian president Charles Taylor have asked a U.N.-backed war crimes court for permission to reopen their defense case, saying a recently published Security Council report could help clear him of charges he sent fighters to commit atrocities in Sierra Leone's civil war.

New studies released in London today suggest that the frenzied sell-off of forests and other prime lands to buyers hungry for the developing world's natural resources risk sparking widespread civil unrest-unless national leaders and investors recognize the customary rights of millions of poor people who have lived on and worked these lands for ... (more)

Liberia has arrested some 70 people near its southeastern border with Ivory Coast for their alleged involvement in plans to destabilise the neighbouring country, an administrative official told AFP.

While Liberia could afford an election in which the President Ellen Johnson ran unopposed the people of the country have neither electricity or running water.

The main opposition party here, the Congress for Democratic Change seems to be jittery of being left in the cold following promise of inclusion in government now that President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is at the verge of completing a restructure of her cabinet with 19 names already nominated.