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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…

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…

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…