VOINJAMA, Liberia, Feb 15 (UNHCR) - In a vote of confidence in Liberia's peace process, the first convoy of Liberian refugees headed home yesterday to Lofa county, the hardest-hit area during the ...
BAIDU, Sierra Leone, April 26 (UNHCR) - The road home for Liberian refugees in Sierra Leone just got a whole lot shorter. Starting this week, UNHCR is repatriating refugees to Lofa county through a ...
FOYA, Lofa County -- President Joseph Nyuma Boakai broke ground over the weekend on an 86-kilometer road project linking Voinjama to Mendikorma at the Sierra Leone border, a $45 million initiative ...
The first wave of the Ebola virus struck Liberia's northern Lofa County back in March. Correspondent Ofeibea Quist-Arcton traveled to Lofa, and speaks to NPR's Scott Simon about the current situation.
Monrovia — Lofa County has won its first National County Sports Meet Trophy since the establishment of the county in 1956. Considered as one of the favorites of the 2020/2021 National County Sports ...
The farming town of Barkedu accounts for a fifth of Liberia's Ebola deaths. Residents have revved up anti-Ebola efforts. But the virus has swept... In Liberia's Hard-Hit Lofa County, Ebola Continues ...
I feel compelled to share my thoughts on the just-ended Lofa County Senatorial By-election. My thoughts are informed largely by the local dynamics which the UP (probably) failed to accept, or at least ...
Violence erupted in the towns of Voinjama and Zorzor in Liberia last week. There are conflicting reports about the cause of the conflict in which four people died. While the mainstream media reports ...
2 of 5 — The chief imam of Barkedu, a predominantly Muslim town, walks down an empty street. 3 of 5 — Barkedu's town chief, Musa Sesay, says the local outbreak can be traced back to an ailing resident ...
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has hurt Liberia more than any other country. And within Liberia, no town has been hit harder than the primarily Muslim farming town of Barkedu, in Lofa County in the ...