Dateline Liberia - Monday (03 July 2017)

Dateline

Name of Program: Dateline Liberia
Date: Monday July 03, 2017
Time 10:00am with a Repeat at 9:15pm
Duration: 45’
Producer: Olive Thomas
Interviews or recorded pieces-subject matter and/or content.
  • Liberia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, says government has growing concern about a US$17 million funding gap for the implementation of the activities of the National Elections Commission.
  • Also speaking at the UN Security Council, the Chairman of the Liberia Configuration of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC), Ambassador Olof Skoog of Sweden, has called for the need to ensure that the Liberia October elections are successful.
  • It is nearly a year since the ELWA Hospital in Paynesville moved into its eighty-five bedroom facilities constructed through funding provided by the American charity organization, Samaritan Purse.
  • Information Minister Eugene Nagbe says President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf will in two weeks’ time submit a draft act to the national legislature decriminalizing speech offences in Liberia.
  • A Liberian herbalist, Dr. Kpakae Roberts has expressed frustration over the lack of interest in efforts at locating centenarians in the country.
  • An authority at the Monrovia Football Academy says the academy has intensified efforts at providing football and Academic skills to Liberian Youth.

 

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