The Rotary Club Monrovia, during the week of August 26th, welcomed Brian Jonson, President of the Rotary Club of Marlow. The highlight of the week was the commissioning of a medical-grade oxygen plant at the ELWA Hospital in Monrovia.

The Rotary Club of Monrovia has dedicated a medical oxygen facility valued at nearly US$200,000 to the ELWA Hospital. //

She noted that the oxygen plant has been piped to connect to the hospital building and will supply oxygen for surgical wards and emergency rooms. The plant will also be capable of supplying medical grade oxygen-filled cylinders for other health facilities at a reasonable cost.

Jason Troxell, who serves as the CEO of ELWA Hospital, also used the opportunity to thank the groups for choosing the ELWA Hospital for their project. He said the project was worth celebrating because it would impact the lives of their patients and those at other health facilities in need of medical grade oxygen. //

The ceremony was also attended by Liberia’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Francis Kateh, who extended his appreciation to the Rotary clubs for their continuing contributions toward the health sector. Dr. Kateh asserted that the oxygen plant would end up saving many lives in the future. //

The Rotary Club of Monrovia is the first of three (3) Rotary Clubs in Liberia. It was chartered by Rotary International on January 24, 1964. Rotary is an organization of 1.2 million business and professional persons united worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations and help build goodwill and peace in the world.

The Liberia Airport Authority Looks is working on modalities to build another terminal - Terminal B - to enhance operations at the country's only international airportMargibi County – The Liberia Airport Authority has advanced several partnership dis

The Chairman of the Liberia Electricity Regulatory Commission (LERC), J. Aloysius Tarlue, Jr. says the commission is committed to fostering an effective regulatory climate that will be result oriented in giving a new lease of life to the underperforming electricity sector.

By this pronouncement, member of the public are expecting a new direction in the implementation of the 2015 Electricity Law of Liberia.

The area of emphasis under the new order of transformative leadership that Chairman Tarlue has promised, “the right regulatory scheme will be set up to win investors’ confidence whilst addressing consumers concern”.

Speaking recently at a local hotel in Monrovia with stakeholders in attendance to review a draft regulatory instruments and procedures Chairman Tarlue reassured that the merger of best practice approaches to include competitive electricity market, private capital and enlightened regulation, would ensure remarkable progress in power generation and distribution. //

Several presentations were made on the draft Electricity Licensing Regulations, Micro Utility Licensing Regulations, draft Electricity Licensing Handbook, Draft Administrative Procedures Regulations. All suggestions and inputs made will be incorporated into the new regulations, it was revealed.

White Plains, Montserrado County – President George Weah over the weekend broke grounds for the construction of a raw water intake pipeline at White Plains.

The 48-inch diameter pipeline, according to officials, will replace the original 36-inch diameter pipeline that was destroyed during Liberia’s civil war.

It is part of the energy project under the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact with Liberia.

The MCC is a Liberia-United States partnership to reduce poverty and promote economic growth. //

it has been a little over 60 years, in 1956 when the first pipeline was constructed and was destroyed during the war. //

the ground breaking ceremony was a significant milestone for the LWSC in supplying water to the locals. //

The new pipeline, Mr. Captan added, is approximately 5 kilometers long and generally follows the original alignment of the pipeline with small deviations.

According to him, it will improve water quality to the municipal water system.

The current location of the intake pipe on the St. Paul River results in poor water quality and salty water during the dry season when the water level is low.

For his part, LWSC’s Managing Director, Duannah Kamara revealed the pipeline project will deliver water from the dam using gravity flow, saving LWSC US$780,000 a year in electricity costs to pump water to the water treatment plant.

In addition, he said the US$18 million pipeline will improve the reliability and quality of the water supply to nearly one million residents of Greater Monrovia.

Meanwhile, MCA-L has contracted Denys NV of Belgium to design and construct the pipeline, while Nicholas O’Dwyer of Ireland will be responsible for design review and construction supervision.

The pipeline, which is the last project under the current compact is expected to be completed in June 2020.

The Senate has overwhelmingly approved three constitutional propositions, including dual citizenship, reduction of the tenures of the President, Vice President and the date for the holding of elections in the country. //

The suggested amendment to Article 28 reads, “A natural born citizen of Liberia may hold the citizenship of another country, but shall not qualify for elected positions, and the following appointed positions: Chief Justice and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Liberia; Cabinet Minister, a head of autonomous agency and non academic/research/scientific institution and ambassador.” //

The Senate said Article 28 provides that any person, at least one of whose parents was a citizen of Liberia at the time of his or her birth, shall be a natural born citizen of Liberia; a natural born citizen’s right to citizenship of Liberia is inherent and inalienable; //

Members of the Senate said voting for the President, Vice President, Members of the Senate and Members of the House of Representatives shall be conducted throughout the country on the Second Tuesday in November of each election year. //

Also, the Senators voted for the reduction of tenures of the President, Vice President, and members of the House of Senate and the House of Representatives shall be elected for a term of five years, and shall all Senators be elected for the term of seven years.

Monrovia - Stakeholders in the Energy sector have met in Monrovia to validate the findings of off-grid solar market assessment in Liberia. The Meeting was a one-day meeting that brought together stakeholders in the energy sector specifically solar en //

Out of the 406 million residing in West Africa and the Sahel Region, it is estimated that 208 million inhabitants have no access to electricity, about 70 percent of whom live in rural areas.

As many as 37% of Liberians go without food because of the lack of money and unemployment, according to a new Afrobarometer survey in Monrovia.

Across 34 surveyed countries, the Afrobarometer has shown that unemployment dominates its popular survey which stands at 40%, followed by health, 27%; infrastructure, 24%; and water and sanitation, 24%.

Education, poor management of the economy and poverty/destitution are at 21% respectively and food shortage/famine is at 18%.

According to the survey, unemployment tops as the most important problem that Africans want their governments to address, followed by health, infrastructure/roads, water/sanitation, education, poverty, and management of the economy. //

This policy paper relies primarily on data from 45,823 interviews completed in 34 countries between September 2016 and September 2018.

Afrobarometer is a pan-African, non-partisan research network that conducts public attitude surveys on democracy, governance, economic conditions, and related issues across more than 30 countries in Africa. Six rounds of surveys were conducted between 1999 and 2015, and this is the finding from Round 7 surveys (2016-2018).

Liberia's media scene includes privately-owned and state-run outlets. Radio is the main news source and there is a lively commercial sector, especially in Monrovia.

There is a handful of TV stations, including a network run by state broadcaster LBS.

Most media outlets are not self-sustaining and rely on government advertising or support from politicians and international donors, says Freedom House.

There is real media freedom in Liberia, says Reporters Without Borders. But it says the authorities still threaten and intimidate journalists when they criticise the government.

Liberia enacted West Africa's first freedom of information law in 2010. However, large fines imposed in libel cases have encouraged self-censorship, says Freedom House.
Radio

• Liberian Broadcasting System (LBS) - state-owned
• UNMIL Radio - operated by United Nations mission
• ELWA - Christian
• Sky FM - private

PAYNESVILLE – The Rotary Club of Monrovia has dedicated a medical oxygen facility valued at nearly US$200,000 to the Eternal Love Winning Africa (ELWA) Hospital. Also, during the same week of the dedication, the Rotary Club Monrovia welcomed Brian Jo

Monday, September 2, 2013
ELWA Hospital, Monrovia Liberia.
James returned safely from ELWA (Eternal Love Winning Africa) Hospital on Saturday, August 31st.
Here are a few reflections from James regarding his trip:

 I was pleasantly surprised to find that the ELWA Compound is built right on the ocean. This is the view from the front door of the SIM Guest House. It was great to meet other SIM missionaries. It was a privilege to get to know them better through their hospitality and fellowship.

Our vision is to see a new generation of Liberian healthcare professionals who are gifted and compassionate serving throughout Liberia. No child, woman or man needs to be out of the reach of basic healthcare in Liberia. Together we can make a difference.

• Accessible healthcare in Liberia for generations to come

• Well trained healthcare professionals

• Offering healthcare for the body, but also spiritual care for the soul

• Improving the quality of healthcare

• Liberians helping their fellow citizens and neighbors

2012 EMi trip to Liberia to plan civil works for new hospital

Daniel Kaye testified in his investigation — which took place in Germany — that the operation he carried out was ordered by the CEO of Cellcom Liberia, Avishai Marciano.

According to court testimony, Kaye was hired in 2015 to attack Lonestar, Liberia’s top mobile phone and Internet provider. Kaye pocketed $10,000 for the attack, which was alleged to have been paid for by an individual working for Cellcom, Lonestar’s competitor in the region. As reported by Israeli news outlet Haaretz, Kaye testified that the attack was ordered by the CEO of Cellcom Liberia.

MONROVIA – LoneStar Cell MTN says it has initiated a lawsuit against Mr. Daniel Kaye, a British hacker who took down their internet in 2015 and early 2017. Cellcom Liberia, now Orange Liberia and some of its operatives including Avishai Marziano form

Beamont’s story noted that a botnet based on Mirai was seen attacking the telecommunications infrastructure in the West African nation of Liberia. Citing anonymous sources, Beaumont said transit providers confirmed an attack of more than 500 Gpbs targeting Liberia’s lone underseas large-transit Internet cable, which Beaumont said “provides a single point of failure for internet access.” //

The only problem that I can see with these stories is that there does not appear to have been anything close to a country-wide outage as a result of this Mirai attack.

Daniel Brewer, general manager for the Cable Consortium of Liberia, confirmed that his organization has fielded inquiries from news outlets and other interest groups following multiple media reports of a nationwide outage. But he could not point to the reason.

Daniel Kaye attacked an African mobile phone company, inadvertently taking Liberia offline in 2016.

Liberia has been briefly cut off from the internet by hackers targeting its only link to the global network.

Monrovia - The Liberia Telecommunications Authority says it remains committed to protecting the greater interests of the consumers of telecommunications products. It further states that it will do all it can to continuously serve the public interest //

It is expected that the LTA’s intervention as a regulatory measure shall stabilize the telecommunications market. In their strategy, the immediate benefits to stabilize the market are to prevent mobile networks operators (MNO) from decommissioning communication towers in rural communities and to ensure that people remain connected while the long time benefit is to improve quality of service, expand network coverage, infrastructure and restore sector viability.

New floor pricing set by the Liberian government is going to change the way Liberians have been communicating via mobile phone for the last five years, bringing a halt to the most-appreciated ‘three days free calls’ promotion on the two GSM companies operating in the country.

The following gallery contains pictures of works as they have progressed during 2017 and 2018. Please scroll through for scenes of the site.

The sections below contain older pictures from the early phases of the project.