Employment creation through road rehabilitation yields peace dividend
Over 30,000 Liberian women and men have benefited from short-term
employment opportunities generated by labour-intensive road
rehabilitation projects across the country, a new study reveals. “The
jobs created have had a positive impact, engendering a feeling of
security in the communities and have promoted cohesion, as people from
different groups participated jointly,” said Director of UNMIL’s
Reintegration, Rehabilitation and Recovery Section (RRR), Mr. Andrea
Tamagnini.
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Concerted Efforts Needed to Strengthen Liberia’s Law Enforcement Institutions, says UN Envoy
Buchanan, Grand Bassa County -
Though a lot of progress has been made in post-war Liberia, there are
emerging problems that require the coordinated efforts of every member
of society to overcome, according to the UN Envoy in Liberia, Ms. Ellen
Margrethe Løj.
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- Mission Press Kit
UNMIL Press Kit 2008 - Focus
Ban Ki-moon Visits Liberia - Focus
Benefitting From Emergency Response - Focus:
Confronting Mob Violence - Focus: Infrastructure
Road Rehabilitation Creates More Jobs - Focus: Voices
Listening to the Youth - Focus
Telling the Truth - Focus
Towards a National Agenda
07 August Newspaper Summary
| National Security Advisor offers no Apology for Role in Liberia’s Conflict
(Daily Observer, Heritage, The Analyst, New Democrat, The Inquirer, The News, National Chronicle, The Monitor) | The print media prominently featured Wednesday’s testimony by a
prominent Liberian giving accounts of horrendous atrocities committed
during the country’s decade-long civil war. The National Security
Advisor to President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Dr. H. Boimah Fahnbulleh,
told the Liberia’s Truth Commission that he has neither regret nor
apology for his role in the Liberian conflicts.
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07 August Radio Summary
| Star Radio (News culled today from website at 8:35 am)
National Security Advisor Says Civil War Was About Vengeance
(Also reported on Truth F.M. and ELBC)
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16 April Press Brief
| Mr. Ben D. Malor, UNMIL Spokesman
Good
morning Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to today’s press briefing and we
wish to say a warm welcome to every listener joining us live on UNMIL
Radio. Today’s briefing will focus on the disturbing phenomenon of some
people collecting and scooping gravel from newly-rehabilitated roads
and thereby damaging these roads.
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