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Nigeria confirms first coronavirus case: All the latest updates

Hopes that the coronavirus would be contained to China have vanished as the first case in sub-Saharan Africa was announced in Nigeria and stock markets took a pounding amid fears of a global recession.

In China - the epicentre of the deadly disease - the National Health Commission reported on Friday at least 44 new coronavirus deaths, bringing to 2,788 the number of fatalities nationwide.

Coronavirus has killed more than 2,800 people and infected about 83,000 worldwide. Read more...

Coronavirus: Evacuation debate over African citizens in Wuhan

Antoinette Sayeh Tipped for IMF Deputy Managing Director Post

— IMF Managing Director Kristina Georgieva Proposes

Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), yesterday proposed the appointment of Antoinette Sayeh as a Deputy Managing Director, effective March 16, 2020. The appointment is subject to approval by the IMF’s Executive Board.

In announcing her selection of Ms. Sayeh, Ms. Georgieva said: “We are welcoming back a dear friend and member of the IMF family. Antoinette is very well known and highly respected, having served as Director of the African Department between 2008 and 2016 where she led a major transformation of the Fund’s relationship with our African member countries. Read more...

The world’s largest rubber company is being blamed again for pollution in a Liberian river

Firestone Liberia, the world’s largest rubber plantation owned by global tire giant Bridgestone, is alleged to have allowed the continuing release of waste into a river in Liberia, 15 years after it was first alleged of the same pollution problem.

Though the initial allegations in 2005 had prompted Firestone to take steps to address the issues, a report released this month by Mighty Earth, an environmental campaign group, claims very little had changed and accuses Firestone Liberia  of corporate negligence. Read more...

How Africa hopes to gain from the 'new scramble'

Major world powers are jostling for political and economic influence in Africa, but what is behind the renewed interest on the continent and what are African countries doing about it? The BBC's Dickens Olewe reports.

In recent years Africans have become used to seeing their leaders accumulate air miles while honouring invitations to attend a series of Africa-themed summits held around the world, often advertised as win-win partnerships. Read more...

Liberia: Company with Tainted Track Record to Gets Contract for RIA Highway Expansion

Gbarnga, Bong County – Since the inception of the President George M. Weah-led government, the country has witnessed controversies in which some companies with tainted history including bad records of performance have been awarded lucrative contracts. Read more...

Joe Biden's conundrum-- History has seldom favored former U.S Vice Presidents looking to ascend

In 244 years and 45 Presidents, only 14 Vice Presidents have ascended to the Presidency. Of those 14, only 4 were actually elected to office and the others ascended due to death or resignation of the President. The last time Americans elected a former VP was 32 years ago in 1988, when George H.W. Bush succeeded Ronald Reagan. Since the death of John F. Kennedy in 1963, only four former Vice Presidents ascended to the Presidency--Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ), Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush. Of those four, only two were actually elected, Nixon and Bush. Tragedy and resignation ascended the other two. LBJ did run for re-election in 1964 and won, but he was not running as a former VP since he had already ascended after the death of JFK. Read more...

"Ambassador Kemayah elected Vice-Chair of Special Committee on United Nations Charter- Chairs First Working Group Meeting on UN Sanctions "

(New York, February 21, 2020) The Republic of Liberia, represented by its Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, His Excellency Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah, Sr. has been elected as Vice-Chair of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization. Read more...