By: Wonderr K. Freeman Originally Published in September 2022 Liberia has been abuzz with talks of sanctions, since the US Government Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC/Treasure Department) slammed sanctions on three senior Liberian public officials. These sanctions are being widely celebrated locally, as the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) regime gets entrapped in myriad financial scandals. However, as expected, those accused have understandably protested their
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Originally Published under a pseudonym -in July 2019 President George Weah and his merry band of hustlers currently running the show in Liberia are a band in a hurry: hurry to bring overnight development to Liberia; at least that’s the official line. They’ve been crisscrossing the globe, from Brussels to Beirut, from Singapore to Beijing, in search of easy and fast cash. Liberians already know a
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Originally Published under a pseudonym – in October 2020 History tells us that the United State of America (the US) was founded in 1776. So was Liberia – in 1847. By simple arithmetic, the US was founded about seventy-one years before Liberia. This makes the US 244 years old and Liberia 173 years old. Now, one may say the US is quite an old nation; however,
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Originally Published in November 2017 By Wonderr K. Freeman, Mon. Lib The AU hypocritical statement of 18th November 2017 In the wake of recent report of the CNN detailing horrific atrocities against African migrants hoping to make it into Europe, the African Union (AU) made another obvious pretense of concern. In a statement issued by the AU Commission, the AU Commission Chair, in what amounts to
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Originally Published in October 2013: https://africlaw.com/category/contributors/wonderr-freeman/ By. Wonderr K. Freeman On 13 October 2013, leaders of African states meet in Addis Ababa to consider a possible withdrawal from the Rome Statute creating the International Criminal Court (ICC). African leaders do not find favour with the ICC’s pursuit of Kenya’s “big men”- President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto. The AU draws links between the indictment
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Originally Published in January 2017 By: Wonderr Koryenen FREEMAN, Attorney-at-Law, Monrovia, Liberia Yahya Jammeh has finally left The Gambia – of course with so much credit to the resolve of ECOWAS that the will of the Gambia people must be respected. Is this Africa coming of age or is this just an aberration for a continent better known for its failures and misadventures? Jammeh started out
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