Tag: Liberia
Sierra Leone low on 2012 Open Budget Index for poor public involvement
A new report from the International Budget Partnership gives Sierra Leone a score of 39 percent for providing just minimal information on the government’s annual budget and expenditure to the public. The ...New electronic billboard launched to publish government spending in Liberia
In Monrovia, citizens can now keep track of government spending with an electronic billboard funded by the US government. The billboard is part of a new Open Budget Initiative to increase transparency ...Liberia’s President says Nobel Laureate Leymah Gbowee too young to know value of peace
The President of Liberia who is in London for a UN development meeting has dismissed Leymah Gbowee’s recent statement and resignation on account of her age. In response to the Gbowee affair, ...Doing Business Report 2013: Liberia easiest for start ups, Sierra Leone protects investors
According to the World Bank Doing Business 2013 Report, Sierra Leone and Liberia have surpassed the regional rank for ease of doing business in West Africa. The annual report assesses the ease ...Liberia’s Leymah Gbowee from peace champion to “disgrace to womanhood”
Wherever Lehmah Gbowee is right now she is probably feeling very alone. She resigned her post as Liberia’s Peace and Reconciliation Commissioner last week and said that President Johnson Sirleaf is nepotistic and ...Liberia, Sierra Leone move up in Ibrahim Index but the latter is last for Human ...
Out of a total of 100 Sierra Leone and Liberia scored 47 and 48 respectively in the recently released 2012 Ibrahim Index of Governance. They ranked 30th and 34th out of the ...AFCON Football Roundup: Liberia and Sierra Leone out
Over the weekend Sierra Leone and Liberia’s National Football Teams played away matches in Tunisia and Nigeria consecutively in a final attempt to qualify for the 2013 African Cup of Nations in ...Liberia beats Black Stars 2-0: Thank God We’re not a Ghanaians
It is possible that you didn’t hear that Lone Stars of Liberia beat Ghana’s Black Stars 2-0 earlier this week in Monrovia for the 2nd annual President’s Cup but you should definitely know. ...Big Brother 7: Sierra Leone’s Zainab survives, but Liberians and Dalphin evicted [VIDEO]
Three contestants in Big Brother StarGame have gone home in the second round of evictions from the House. Liberia’s Luke and Yadel were asked to leave as well as Sierra Leone’s Dalphin. ...“Women Are Heroes”, JR’s street gallery in Sierra Leone, Liberia [VIDEO of the WEEK]
“The city’s the best gallery I could imagine. I would never have to make a book and then present it to a gallery and let them decide if my work was nice ...