Empowering Adolescent Girls
Julie Ballah, 13, held out a portrait of a girl studying under candle light. The portrait was her own handiwork, resulting from a training programme for adolescent girls. “Due to the Joint Programme on Adolescent Girls…
UNFPA Calls for Increased Family Planning Awareness
During a visit to Liberia in July, UNFPA Executive Director Babatunde Osotimehin promised the population agency’s continued assistance to Liberia’s youth development and maternal mortality programmes and called for increased…
NIBATT 27 Reaches Out to Prison Inmates
As part of their efforts to make a difference in the lives of Liberians, members of Nigerian Battalion 27 in late July presented several gift items to inmates at the Monrovia Central Prison (MCP) in addition to providing them…
Twenty-fourth progress report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Mission in Liberia
Twenty-fourth progress report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Mission in Liberia
A Star is Born 2012/13 Launch at the SKD Gymnasium, SKD Sports Complex
The nationwide annual “A Star is Born under 20 Talent Hunt” jointly organized by UNMIL and the government of Liberia will be launched tomorrow Friday 14, September, 2012 by the Minister of Information Culture and Tourism, Hon…
Peace in Liberia: The Stakes at the Border
In Côte d’Ivoire’s western regions, security is still fragile more than a year since the 2010 post-election violence. As ethnic tensions exacerbated by the conflict and compounded by inter-communal land disputes run high…
Operation Restore Hope
On at least two occasions since the AFL launched Operation Restore Hope in southeastern Liberia late last June, caches of arms have been discovered in Garleo Forest in the border district of Konobo during joint searches by…
24 September Press Briefing
Yasmina Bouziane, UNMIL Spokesperson Karin Landgren, Special Representative of the Secretary-General. Near Verbatim Yasmina Bouziane (UNMIL Spokesperson) Good morning ladies and gentlemen; welcome to this press conference on…
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“We Demand Access to Justice,” Liberian Women Tell UN Envoy
On 26 September, more than 100 Liberian women met with Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Karin Landgren, in Gbarnga, Bong County, to call for increased access to justice. The meeting marked the third annual…
Ghanaian Peacekeepers Extend Humanitarian Assistance in Grand Bassa
Members of the Ghanaian contingent in Buchanan (GHANBATT-16) continue to extend a hand of friendship to the people of Grand Bassa with the provision of humanitarian assistance to various segments of the population. After…
National retreat on prevention of sexual abuse of children concludes
11 October 2012, Monrovia: A national retreat focusing on prevention of sexual abuse of children concluded in Monrovia today with a joint official declaration from the Government, civil society, and the UN for a comprehensive…
BANENGR-18 Trains Staff of Ministry of Public Works
The Gbarnga-based engineering unit of UNMIL Bangladeshi contingent (BANENGR-18) continues to contribute to the development of the road sector in Liberia. In addition to carrying out regular maintenance work on the network of…