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Officials of sporting organizations came together on Saturday, December 15, 2007 to form the First Liberian Soccer League on the East Coast. For many years, teams in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania have been meeting in tournaments where they pay high registration fees, play less time and sometimes get unprofessional treatments that compromise the dignity of the game in a lot of ways. For most part, the tournaments have been profit making events.
The Liberian Soccer League will provide fun and recreation for the whole family on a regular basis; help our young people to socially develop through the game of soccer while exposing them to opportunities for academic scholarships and the potential of getting professional contracts.
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Press Release: Argent Networks
Argent Networks Deploys Billing Solution in Liberia on Huawei Network
Auckland, 9 February 2007 – Leading technology and telecommunications solutions company, Argent Networks, today announced that it has deployed its Eclipse real-time data billing solution to Libercell, Liberia’s national telecommunications provider.
ArgentEclipse™ is a fully convergent solution and will provide Libercell with prepaid and post-paid billing, single rating and CRM to mobile, fixed line, and value-added next generation services and will operate on a network supplied by Huawei Technologies.
ArgentEclipse™ will have dual interconnects to both the existing Ericsson MSC and the new Huawei MSC providing 2.75G Edge billing for real-time convergent prepaid and postpaid subscribers using the ArgentEclipse unified rating engine.
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Press Release: Government of Japan provides US$1.604 million to Lib- Children
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Funding will contribute to reducing Liberia’s high under-five morality rate
MONROVIA/LIBERIA, 13 November 2006 - The Government of Japan has contributed US$1.604 million to UNICEF to support life-saving child immunization coverage and provide almost 150,000 insecticide treated bed nets to protect infants and pregnant women from malaria. The grant will also be used to provide 780,000 doses of Artesunate and Amodiaquine (ACT) to care for children who contract malaria, Africa’s leading cause of under-five mortality.
“We are profoundly grateful to the Government of Japan for their continued commitment to assist Liberia’s vulnerable children,” said UNICEF Liberia Representative Rozanne Chorlton, at a press conference with Mr. Yutaka Nakamura, Charge d'Affaires in the Government of Japan’s Embassy in Ghana. Two senior officials from the Government of Liberia also participated in the Exchange of Notes ceremony in the Liberian capital: the Hon. Toga Gayewea McIntosh, Minister of Planning, and the Hon. Bernice T. Dahn, MD, MPH, Deputy Minister and Chief Medical Officer at the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare.
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Press Release: United States and Liberia Sign Trade and Investment Framework Agreement
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Source: ustr.gov
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Liberia and United States
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WASHINGTON DC - U.S. Trade Representative Susan C. Schwab and the Liberian Minister of Commerce, Industry, & Trade Olubanke King-Akerele signed a Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) yesterday that will provide a forum to address trade issues and will help build trade and investment relations between the United States and Liberia.
“Increased trade and investment will be critical to Liberia’s reconstruction and economic development as the country emerges from years of war and civil strife,” said Ambassador Schwab. “Liberian President Johnson-Sirleaf has worked hard to reinvigorate and strengthen Liberia’s trade ties and economic partnership with the United States, and through the TIFA we can build upon this important work.”
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Press Release: Security Council renews arms, travel embargoes in Liberia for one year, Diamond
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restrictions for six months, unanimously adopting resolution 1731 (2006)
Council Will Review Diamond Measures after 4 Months,
Allow Government Time to Establish Effective Certificate of Origin Regime
Determining that insufficient progress had been made by Liberia in three years to end the sanctions against it and that the situation in that country remained a threat to international peace and security in the region, the Security Council today renewed the arms and travel embargoes for another year, and the diamond restriction for another six months, and agreed to consider lifting the sanctions at the Government’s request once it had met the conditions for doing so.
Unanimously adopting resolution 1731 (2006) under the Charter’s Chapter VII, the Council will review its measures on diamonds, aimed at preventing the direct or indirect import of rough diamonds from Liberia, after four months to allow the Liberian Government sufficient time to establish an effective Certificate of Origin regime for its rough diamonds trade that was transparent and internationally verifiable, with a view to joining the Kimberley Process.
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