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SEPTEMBER 2007

19 Liberian Army Officers Complete Medical Training

Role Model, Diplomat', Angie Brooks Laid to Rest

Liberia Says World Trade Must Benefit Poor

Ivory Coast Opposition Rallying for Fair Elections

Dedication at NYC African Burial Ground

Nigeria buries troops killed in Darfur

It's Official: FELMAUSA Inauguration Sets For Milwaukee, WI FELMAUSA Press Release September 10, 2007

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No Rice Shortage in Liberia’: New Commerce Minister Johnson-Morris Speaks

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West African Health Officials Struggle to Evaluate Malaria Fight By Phuong Tran Dakar 17 October 2007

The Roll Back Malaria Partnership of donors, governments and
organizations says sub-Saharan Africa is making gains in fighting the
disease.  But West African health officials say there is still a long way
to go, because donors are not focusing on what is most needed.  
Phuong Tran has more from VOA's West Africa bureau in Dakar.

The report's authors from the U.N. children's agency, UNICEF, say
most sub-Saharan African countries have tripled distribution of
insecticide treated bed nets in recent years.  These nets, especially
long-lasting ones that do not require re-spraying, have been proven to
block disease-carrying mosquitoes.

But the U.N. authors say they are not able to link the nets to a direct
decrease in deaths from malaria.

Malaria is spread by mosquitoes

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Liberian President’s Leadership Brings Closer U. S. Relations

Baby Naming Ceremony Masugbeh & Lasana Jabateh invite you to join them to share the joy their naming ceremony of their daughter Asata Jabateh on Saturday 20th October 2007 at Eden Park Party Hall @ 6455 Zane Avenue N, Brooklyn Park MN 55420     Read more...

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WIMAM welcome one of her newest members born unto to the union of Mr. Alpha Yathor Kromah and Maciame Dorley of Milwaukee on October 20, 2007 at the St. Joseph’s Regional Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at 7:18 a.m.  They proud family was blessed with a bouncing little boy.   The mother and the child are doing well and the family can be contacted by calling Alpha: 414-241-1899 Maciame: 414-442-9292.

Clutch of countries resist Liberia debt relief By Lesley Wroughton of Reuters

Pressure mounted on Sunday on a clutch of mainly developing countries
to sign off on debt relief for Liberia held up over how to finance the
International Monetary Fund's portion of the deal.

Approval to write off the $900 million Liberia owes the IMF has been
resisted by Belgium and large developing countries including Brazil,
Turkey, Indonesia and India, which are haggling over how the debt relief
should be funded, government sources said.
The IMF has proposed to fund the debt relief by shuffling around internal
funds among accounts, which would not require additional funding from
member countries, World Bank President Robert Zoellick told a news
conference during meetings of the bank and fund.

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A 'Celebration for the Liberian People': Africare Honor Humbles Sirleaf 10/20/07 - Rodney D. Sieh, rsieh@FrontPageAfrica.com

Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf receives the 2007 Africare's  Bishop John T. Walker Distinguished Humanitarian Service Award on Thursday, Oct. 18, 07

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President Republic of Liberia, Recepient, 2007 Bishop John T. Walker Distinguished Humanitarian Service Award.

Washington, D.C.-Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf followed the footsteps of the likes of Jimmy
Carter, Nelson Mandela, Graca Machel, Bill Clinton, Dorothy Height, Colin Powel, Andrew Young, Bill and
Melinda Gates and the Most Rev. Desmond Tutu when she received the 2007 Africare's  Bishop John T.
Walker Distinguished Humanitarian Service Award on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2007.
HONOREE POINTS TO LEGACY  
“I would like to be remembered for raising the bar for accountable governance in Liberia and across the
continent; for designing institutions that serve the pubic interest; for turning a failed state into a thriving
democracy with a vibrant, diversified private-sector-driven economy; for sending children back to school;
for returning basic services to the cities and bringing them to rural areas.”

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President Republic of Liberia, Recepient, 2007 Bishop John T. Walker Distinguished
Humanitarian Service Award.

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Abou Fofana and his wife Assata Konneh are blessed with bouncing little boy. The newest member of the community was born unto on October 23rd, 2007 at the St. Joseph’s Regional Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at 4:48 p.m. The mother and the child are doing well and the family can be reach by calling Abou Fofana :414-324-6073 Tatou Konneh : 414-881-4577

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Murder of a reggae star sparks reflection in South Africa By Scott Baldauf Sunday, Oct 28, 2007

He was a man like any other, a 40-something father gunned down while
dropping off his teenaged children at a relative's house. But the murder
of reggae star Lucky Dube last Thursday, in an apparent carjacking
attempt, has forced South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki to make a
statement.

Mr. Mbeki, who was traveling to Paris to watch South Africa's rugby
team in the World Cup finals, said that South Africans must commit to
"act together" to confront "this terrible scourge of crime, which has taken
the lives of too many of our people – and does so every day."

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Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission Re-Launches Investigations By Kari Barber Dakar 28 October 2007

Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission has again started
gathering testimony about atrocities committed during the nation's
civil wars ending in 2003 and the years leading up to the wars.
The commission began its work in October 2006, but had to halt the
probe in November because of a lack of funds. Kari Barber reports
from Dakar that while some say they are happy the commission is
back in operation, others say a reconciliation commission is not
enough, they want a war crimes court.

Dozens of Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) investigators
have dispersed across the countryside to collect testimonies about
abuses, murders and rapes that happened during more than two
decades of civil conflict.

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf looks
at the logo of the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission, 22 June
2006

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An Interview with Amara Konneh By: Nvasekie N. KonnehSunday, October 22, 2007

NNK: From the time you attended school in Liberia, then going to
Guinea, coming to the US, and then going back to Liberia, what is the
track record to support your involvement in politics?

AK: Again, I am not a politician but a technocrat who leads change
and gets things done.  I was a student leader for my high school in
Liberia, Monrovia College but didn’t do much due to the conflict; as a
refugee in Guinea, I started one of the most successful refugee schools
for Liberian children. Remember I was only a high school student!
Because of the leadership I demonstrated at my refugee school, I was
hired by the International Rescue Committee as Education
Coordinator for Beyla Prefecture, giving me management
responsibility for 20 refugee schools in the prefecture.  

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