Author: Rural Reporters News Network
By: D Abraham Cooper Sr.| Grand Gedeh County Correspondent Zwedru City, Grand Gedeh County-Saturday, September 27, 2025-The Ministry of Health in partnership with BRAC Liberia and UNFPA, on Friday, Sept 26, 2025 commemorated world contraceptive day in Zwedru under the theme: “A Choice for all, Freedom to Plan, Power to Choose”. The event brought together students, motorcyclists, health practitioners, and media professionals among others. World Contraceptive Day is commemorated annually on September 26, and is meant to acknowledge people around the world on the importance of family planning and Condoms to maintain brighter future for they and their children. Dr.…
By: Ernest Kpehe Moibah | Bomi County Correspondent Tima Town, Gbarpolu County- Friday, September 25, 2025-Residents of Tima Town in Kongbah District, Gbarpolu County are raising concerns over what they describe as government neglect and worsening economic hardship, citing the plight of chiefs and traditional leaders who receive appointment letters but are not placed on the government payroll. Speaking to a team of reporters, Chief William Sumo, General Town Chief of Myima Clan, said he has served in his position for four years without receiving any official salary or financial support from the government. “I carry an appointment letter from…
By: Ernest Kpehe Moibah | Correspondent, Bomi County Tubmanburg, Bomi County- September 25, 2025- The Rural Universities and Colleges Faculty Association of Liberia (RUCFAL) has launched an indefinite nationwide strike over what they describe as inadequate salaries and benefits from the Government of Liberia. The strike, which began on Wednesday, September 24, 2025, has crippled academic activities at institutions across the country, including the Bomi Community College (BCC) in Tubmanburg, leaving thousands of students in limbo. RUCFAL insists the strike will continue until the government addresses long-standing concerns, including standardized salaries, fair benefits, and stronger financial support for rural faculty…
By: D Abraham Cooper Sr.| Grand Gedeh County Correspondent Zwedru City, Grand Gedeh County-Thursday, September 25, 2025-A Liberian man, Mr. Arthur B. Yalarti, has alleged that he was stabbed in his right arm by a Chinese national working with the Liberia Ever Prosperous Investment Company. Speaking to reporters, Mr. Yalarti explained that he had been working with the company and was instrumental in extending its operations to the southeastern region of the country. He said the incident occurred after returning from Maryland County on company duties. Upon arriving in Zwedru, he decided to spend the night at the company’s office…
By: Peter Kollie| Lofa County Correspondent Zorzor City, Lofa County—Thursday, September 25, 2025-In a moving act of generosity and community solidarity, Assistant Labor Minister for Statistics and Research, Jackson Wolobah, has donated 285 pairs of rubber slippers to scores of residents in Zorzor District. During a visit back home recently, Minister Wolobah—fresh from a trip to South Korea joined the celebration of the traditional festival in his ancestral town of Zelemai. He used the occasion to donate rubber slippers to some of the district’s most vulnerable residents. Minister Wolobah made the presentation at the graduation ceremony of a Sande School…
Ben TC Brooks River Gee County – [Sept. 25, 2025] – More than 4,000 residents of Lawrenceville Community in Fish-Town, River Gee County, are breathing a sigh of relief after years of battling with severe water shortages. Their long struggle for safe drinking water has been eased with the rehabilitation of the community’s only hand pump following media report on September 1, 2025 by the Rural Reporters News Network. The hand pump, originally constructed in 2011 by Welthungerhilfe (WHH), formerly known as German Agro Action (GAA), was the community’s primary source of safe drinking water. When it broke down, it…
By Rocheford T. Gardiner HARPER, Maryland County, September 22, 2025-Students of Harper Demonstration High School are back in class after their September 9 street protests successfully prompted the resumption of halted renovation work on their main campus. However, they have been relocated to a temporary facility to allow the academic year to proceed. Since September 16, the school has been operating out of a building at Wah-Hohdoe Town, a western suburb of Harper. The facility was provided by the Cape Palmas Catholic Diocese, headed by Bishop Andrew Kanley. Principal Emmanuel Y. Dennis stated they had to accept the Bishop’s offer…
By: D Abraham Cooper Sr |Grand Gedeh County Correspondent Zwedru City, Grand Gedeh County-Wednesday, September 24, 2025-The market Superintendent of Zwedru Central market and former representative candidate of the 2023, October 10, General and Presidential elections in person of Madam Watchen Ophelia Boley have praised the Government of Liberia for the current exchange rate of the United States Dollars and the attending reduction in prices of commodities on the local market in Zwedru, Grand Gedeh County. Speaking in an exclusive interview with reporters over the weekend, the former two-time contested representative aspirant of Tchien Electoral district #1 turned Market Superintendent…
Monrovia, Liberia – September 24, 2025: The Liberia Revenue Authority (LRA), through its Taxpayer Services Division, has concluded an intensive eight-day tax education and stakeholder engagement campaign across Grand Cape Mount and Bomi Counties in western Liberia. The initiative was designed to raise awareness, educate taxpayers, and strengthen compliance, with a focus on business owners, ordinary citizens, and other key stakeholders. During the engagements, discussions centered on taxpayers’ obligations, required taxes for small businesses, withholding tax on rent, business and personal income taxes, real property tax, tax clearance certificates, and business registration procedures. The outreach covered several communities, ranging from…
By: Emmanuel Koffa |Grand Kru County Correspondent Grand Kru County, Liberia –Tuesday, September 23, 2025-Several officers from the Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency (LDEA) Grand Kru County Detachment are participating in a weeklong intensive capacity building training program aimed at strengthening their skills in combating drug-related crimes. The weeklong intensive capacity building training which is supported by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and implemented by the LDEA, covers critical topics such as the interdiction of precursor chemicals, investigative interviewing techniques, and risk profiling at seaports. Fred G. Souh, Chief of Trainers, emphasized the importance of this training…
