The Daily IIJ

Massa Washington. Her name made me, like many of my colleagues (perhaps with the exception of Stephen Binda from Liberia), to look forward to meeting an American for the session on “Survivors and Victims: Reporting on Women and Violence”. How wrong and mistaken I was!

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The last four days of the training course – Freedom and Responsibility in the Media, did not show any signs of what economists refer to as: diminishing returns. The eagerness

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Deputies in the Gambia said the country’s agricultural sector has failure and cannot meet the challenges of providing adequate food for the ever increasing population of the country. The legislators made this made this worrying pronouncement while sounding their opinion on a report presented to them by Honorable Abba Sanyang, member for Foni Kansala on [...]

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The Gambia has described 2009 as  challenging year for her police force, couple with a series rape, murder, theft, money, drug trafficking and impersonation cases. Superintendent Sulayman Secka, Public Relations Officer of The Gambia Police Force (GPF) confirmed to local journalists at that the Police Headquarters maintenance of law has been demanding this year for [...]

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ISLAMABAD: Nearly 25 journalists have been killed in Pakistan in 2008-09, several by suspected militants. The attack on the Peshawar Press Club is in effect a strike against the Pakistani media’s successful role in shaping public opinion against religious extremism and terrorism.

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The Government of Liberia and the Government of the United States of America have signed a US$220 million bilateral agreement in funding a technical assistance to support every pillar of the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) in Liberia.

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Prosecutors questioned former Liberian President Charles Taylor on his decision to grant Liberian citizenship to Sierra Leonean rebel forces, who relocated to Liberia in December 1999 after falling out with the Sierra Leonean rebel group’s hierarchy.

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Nimba County Senior Senator Prince Y. Johnson, who is also former leader of the erstwhile Independent National Patriotic Front of Liberia (INPFL), has released an affidavit which he said had been written and submitted to United States District Court, District of Minnesota, in a case involving former rebel leader of the UNLIMBO fighting group George [...]

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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Liberia has advanced several recommendations to the Government of Liberia (GOL) for implementation.

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The Security Council of the United Nations (UN) has lifted the arms embargo imposed on Liberia in 1999 during the regime of former Liberian President Charles Taylor.

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