• President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has praised the level of judicial reforms made by the current and former chief Justices of the supreme in the country.
• The Government of Norway through UNDP has signing a contribution agreement valued at 476 thousand US dollars in support of the Angie Brooks International Centre for Women’s Empowerment.
• The Executive Director of the Liberia Diabetes Center has alarmed the prevalence rate of the disease in the country.
• A non-governmental organization, Noble Ladies Network over the weekend hosted a fundraising dinner aimed at empowering young women and girls.
• The UN deputy chief said on Tuesday a "bold new course" is needed across the UN system to address the challenges of urbanization in the 21stCentury.

Coffee Break is UNMIL Radio’s flagship news and current affairs program that highlights issues of concerns to UNMIL, government of Liberia, Civil Society and Grassroots communities. Issues such as peace and reconciliation, elections, women’s issues, current events, governance, rule of law, electricity and road construction among others are captured in the program which is aired Mondays-Fridays.
Coffee Break today featured live interviews with the following persons and issues:

• Tunde Ajisomo-ECOWAS Ambassador to Liberia  speaks about ECOWAS Chiefs and staff meeting in Monrovia ;
• Shigeki Namba - Head /Japan International Cooperation Agency -JICA office in Monrovia says Japan has launched the 2018 scholarships for a Master’s degree in Japan.
• Rev. Bartolomew Colley - Acting Chair / Independent National Human Rights Commission INHRC warns against comments the will undermine the electoral process;
• Harold Aidoo – Executive Director / Institute for Research and Democratic Development -IREDD holds stakeholder’s consultations on domestic resource mobilization;
• Stephen Kollie - Media and Communications Manager / Youth Coalition for Education Liberia –YOCEL hosts its 2017 Annual Youth Education Empowerment Summit

Name of Program: Yor Mornin
Date:  September 6, 2017
Time: 7: am
Duration: 1hr
Topic:  What Allows Liberia To Have Twenty or More Candidates for the     Presidential Elections?
Producer: Yede E. Allison
Interviews or recorded pieces-subject matter and/or content
Yor Mornin is an early morning magazine program; its segments are as follows;

• World Headlines
• Motivational Talk- Choose happiness
• Everyday Talk -thirty minute interactive discussion on national and international issues.
• Stories behind World headlines around the world
• Tit Bits About the Liberia 2017 Presidential Elections
• The Support Salone Recovery Campaign

Nationwide report by George Y. Sharpe
Today’s edition of the program carried stories from Grand Bassa, River Cess, Grand Gedeh, Maryland and Lofa Counties. Most of these stories were sent in by Nationwide reporters. They are about local developments, livelihood and the October 2017 elections.
Below is gist of stories we carried: