PRESIDENT JOHNSON-SIRLEAF: RETURNING WITH COLOSSAL GAINS
Published: 29 October, 2007
President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf's recent trip to two strategic countries in Europe, Norway and Belgium and climaxed in the United States of America has been widely described by political analysts as a significant step towards reintegrating Liberia in the mainstream of global politics.
What the People Say about Ellen on Her 69th Birthday
Published: 29 October, 2007
As President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf celebrates her 69th birth anniversary today, the Daily Observer dispatched several members of staff to the streets of Greater Monrovia to capture the views of citizens about their President, her activities and her leadership, and what they thought of her on her birthday. The Observer team also visited various parking stations to include the views of citizens from the leeward counties who were arriving in or departing from the capital. The team included Senior Reporters C.Y. Kwanue, Fatoumata Fofana and George Kennedy and our Bong and Nimba correspondents, Steve Jarvey and Joachim Sendolo, respectively. Here are highlights of their reports from the field.
A history of the first family Photos courtesy of the Sirleaf family
Down Memory Lane with the First Family
Published: 29 October, 2007
MONROVIA, Not often will people avail themselves of talking about their family history, let alone talk about it to a stranger who may have nothing to do with their family's past. But once you hit the pedestal of a public figure, almost your whole history and family's past, more or less, fall in the public domain.
“I Was Born on My Grandma's Birthday”
Published: 29 October, 2007
MONROVIA -- In our African setting, the tendency to discuss family relationships with people who are not close relations is rare, especially in terms of the family nucleus, and mothers in particular.
President Sirleaf meets with leaders at home and across the globe. Sando Moore
The Apex of Entitlement is Self-empowerment
Published: 29 October, 2007
Today is President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf's birthday. The Daily Observer is pleased to bring to its readers highlights on the President, featuring her family life and upbringing, her achievements thus far, and what a cross-section of the public thinks of her.
The sight-seeing photo of the guard tower at the UN Special Courts in Sierra Leone that got Chemidlin jailed for conspiracy to help Taylor escape prison. Photo Courtesy of Michael Chemidlin
US Army veteran’s Nightmare
Published: 14 August, 2006
Observer reporter Moco McCauley catches up with Michael Chemidlin, the 57-year-old U.S. Army veteran accused of helping jailed warlord Charles Taylor escape from prison.
I would like to comment on recent remarks made by Hon. Rufus Neufville criticizing President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf for what he called “taking the credit” for the one million dollar allotment in the budget for district development.
Youth Speak Out On The Taylor Episode
Published: 31 March, 2006
MONROVIA, March 31 --Former president Charles M. G. Taylor, whose step-down, going into exile in Calabar, Nigeria, escape from Nigeria, arrest at the Cameroon-Nigeria border and subsequent transfer to the UN-backed Special Court in Sierra Leone has over shadowed both the international and local media, has been met in some quarters of Liberia with mixed feelings.
