قال فرنسيس كاتيه كبير مسؤولي القطاع الطبي في ليبيريا أمس الأربعاء، إن ما لا يقل عن 40 شخصًا لقوا حتفهم نتيجة انفجار ناقلة وقود في شمال وسط البلاد.
وتعرضت الناقلة ل حادث تصادم في وقت متأخر من يوم الثلاثاء في بلدة توتوتا بمقاطعة بونج، وانفجرت بعد ذلك (...)
The African continent, with a population of over 1.2 billion, has recorded more than 30,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and close to 1,500 deaths. The figures may seem less threatening when compared to those in Europe and the United States. But the (...)
Al-Azhar expressed on Wednesday deep sorrow for the victims of a fire that swept through an Islamic school in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, killing at least 27 children on Tuesday night.
In a statement, the world's leading Sunni institution (...)
At least 30 children in Liberia were killed in a fire at their school, police said on Wednesday.
"The kids were learning the Koran when the fire broke out," police spokesman Moses Carter said. "The cause is not known yet."
The fire started late on (...)
A fire at an Islamic school in Liberia has killed at least 27 children, police said on Wednesday.
“The kids were learning the Koran when the fire broke out,” police spokesman Moses Carter said. He added the blaze was caused by an electrical issue (...)
MONROVIA, September 12, 2018 (News Wires) - Liberia president and former World Footballer of the Year George Weah made a surprise return to international competition in Monrovia late on Tuesday, playing in a 2-1 loss to Nigeria a few weeks short of (...)
Liberia president and former World Footballer of the Year George Weah made a surprise return to international competition in Monrovia on Tuesday, playing in a 2-1 loss to Nigeria a few weeks short of his 52nd birthday.
Liberia had arranged the (...)
Liberian President and former football star George Weah awarded ex-Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger with the country's highest honor in a ceremony on Friday for services to African football that included launching Weah's own acclaimed career.
Wenger (...)
Former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is to travel to Liberia this week to receive the west African country's highest honour for his role in the development of the football career of president George Weah.
Another of Weah's coaches in his formative (...)
كشفت اللجنة المنظمة لمهرجان فينيسيا السينمائي الدولي عن القائمة الكاملة للأفلام المشاركة بفاعليات الدورة ال 75، والتي ستنطلق في الفترة من 29 أغسطس وحتي 8 سبتمبر المقبل.
وعلى غير المتوقع فقد احتضن المهرجان في دورته هذا العام 6 أفلام لشبكة نيتفليكس (...)
George Weah has been here before: on the goal line of the Liberian presidency, one run-off vote from victory. Unlike in 2005, however, his support is much wider and many expect him at last to succeed.
The 1995 European soccer player of the year won (...)
Liberia has been repeatedly cut off from the internet by hackers targeting its only link to the global network.
Recurrent attacks up to 3 November flooded the cable link with data, making net access intermittent.
Researchers said the attacks showed (...)
The sight of an Ebola patient is frightening. Sharon Washington, an employee of Liberia's foreign ministry, got married in January this year at a colourful ceremony in the capital Monrovia. This writer attended the wedding. Later on, Mrs. Washington (...)
Wilfred Bony and Salomon Kalou have both withdrawn from Ivory Coast's squad for their two-legged World Cup qualifier against Liberia, the Ivorian Football Federation said on Tuesday.
The strikers are joined on the sidelines by Thomas Toure, leaving (...)
Liberia was declared free from Ebola by the government and the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Saturday after 42 days without a new case of the virus, which killed more than 4,700 people there during a year-long epidemic.
However, celebrations (...)
As Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone battle the deadly Ebola virus outbreak and the world mobilizes to contain it, high food prices have been reported as farmers abandon their fields in the affected countries.
The International Fund for Agriculture (...)
Former world soccer player of the year George Weah has won a seat in Liberia's Senate to represent the capital, defeating the son of the president and boosting his political fortunes ahead of a presidential election in 2017.
Weah won the Montserrado (...)
In our Orwellian world, there is no place for the politics of inclusion. Victims are invariably excluded from the decision-making process, and Ebola patients are no exception.
An entire shantytown, West Point in the Liberian capital Monrovia, was (...)
At least 4,877 people have died in the world's worst recorded outbreak of Ebola, and at least 9,936 cases of the disease had been recorded as of Oct. 19, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday, but the true toll may be three times as (...)
In 2006, I released a novel about a global zombie plague that drives humanity to the brink of extinction. While the zombies may have been fake, I tried to anchor the human response (political-military-economic-cultural) in reality. I studied the (...)
A total of 4,493 people have died from the world's worst Ebola outbreak on record, and the situation in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone is deteriorating, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.
WHO said a total of 8,997 confirmed, probable (...)
Streets in the capital of Sierra Leone were deserted on Friday as the West African state began a contested, three-day lockdown in a bid to halt the worst Ebola outbreak on record.
President Ernest Bai Koroma urged people to heed the emergency (...)
The United States will ramp up its response to the Ebola crisis in West Africa with plans to build 17 treatment centers, train thousands of healthcare workers, and establish a military control center for coordination, U.S. officials said.
The plan (...)
The Ebola response in Liberia, the country worst hit by the outbreak, will focus on community-level care units since new treatment centres are unlikely to be ready for weeks or months, World Health Organization Assistant Director General Bruce (...)
U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to detail on Tuesday a plan to boost his country's involvement in mitigating the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
The plan would involve a greater involvement of the (...)