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a g P11e Noo intention intention to expel expel Dillon Dillon - As Senators tussle over expulsion THURSDAY JUNE 04 2020 www .thenewdawnliberia.com NEW DA WN 2 Continental News SA court rules lockdown At one point during level four of the lockdown, short- restrictions 'irrational' sleeved T-shirts became South African court of slowing the rate of infection the meantime the current on alcohol and cigarette contraband as retailers were has found some or limiting the spread thereof," lockdown regulations will trade, failure to stay at home not allowed to sell them. c o r o n a v i r u s the written judgement read. apply. and gathering illegally. This ruling has serious A implications about those who l o c k d o w n r e g u l a t i o n s Judge Norman Davis argued Police have opened almost On Wednesday Health imposed by the government it was wrong to allow people to 230,000 cases for violating Minister Zweli Mkhize warned were imprisoned or fined for " u n c o n s t i t u t i o n a l a n d travel to attend funerals but lockdown regulations since on state TV that coronavirus not complying with lockdown invalid". not to earn their livelihoods by the beginning of lockdown on was a bigger threat now than regulations. Will the fines stay The judge picked out rules street trading, as many South 26 March, according to the at the start of the lockdown, in place or will they be around funerals, informal Africans do. Police Minister Bheki Cele. and he called on people to overturned by the courts? workers and amount of The government said it will Contraventions have remain vigilant as cases While all of this plays out, exercise as "irrational". review the regulations but in included breaches of the ban continue to rise.The South South Africa is gearing up for The government was African government has been confusion or even people given14 days to overhaul the criticised over some its outright ignoring lockdown regulations. lockdown regulations, many rules - some local media are South Africa initially had describing them as bizarre and not making it clear that the some of the world's most arbitrary because it banned government has two weeks to r e s t r i c t i v e l o c k d o w n things like the sale of cooked rectify the regulations. measures. The country has food, tobacco products, There is also a possibility 35,812 confirmed cases and alcohol and even prescribed that the government will 755 deaths.The case was filed what items of clothing people appeal against the court by the Liberty Fighters were allowed to buy. ruling. Network and the Hola Bona Renaissance Foundation. What did the judge say? The high court in the A Girl From Africa capital, Pretoria, ruled that the regulations were not RNELLE M. CRUZ was connected to slowing the rate because there was something born in Monrovia, of infection or limiting its she needed to write. Liberia, West Africa spread. A Not knowing what it was and has been a writer ever "The regulations... in a she wanted to write on the since she was a child. Her substantial number of last night she got to spend South Africa has had some of the most mother never took any interest instances are not rationally with her mother, but six years restrictive lockdown measures in the world in her writing, but Arnelle connected to the objectives after her mother's death, in knew that she would write her 2012 she realized what she own story one day. She always wanted to write. knew that one day she would What she wanted to write US issues new travel alert become very successful and was the story of her life. her experience with the war The Survivor Story of and trauma did not stop her Arnelle: A Girl From Africa dream. by Arnelle Cruz on Tanzania over Covid-19 Six months after she came Price: $6.99 USD. 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With no way out, on 1 June and sport events died, she told her mother she she and her family must find a allowed to continue. -BBC Tanzania's last coronavirus update was on 29 April needed a pen and paper way to stay alive. THURSDAY JUNE 04 2020 www .thenewdawnliberia.com NEW DA WN 3

Editorial Commentary arBy Arkebey Oqubay Rescuing our children Ethiopia’s Unconventional COVID-19 Response from rape and sodomy

LIBERIA IS GRADUALLY but seriously descending to moral decadence Instead of implementing a national lockdown like most other governments, including in Africa, where family values and societal standards have slipped thru the window, Ethiopia initiated other essential measures in January, well ahead of most developed countries. And allowing immorality to take its seat in homes, churches, public offices its success so far illustrates how African countries can tackle the pandemic effectively despite tight and even market places. resource constraints.

OUR ATTENTION IS specifically drawn to the increasing wave of domestic violence permeating the country, including rape and sodomy of our young DDIS ABABA – To the surprise of many, African coverage to protect front-line health workers. girls and boys by men, some time two or three times their ages, resulting governments have responded swiftly and to severe injuries and death. Aboldly to the COVID-19 crisis. Ethiopia’s Whereas many advanced and emerging economies unconventional approach, for example, reflects have introduced huge economic-stimulus and rescue HERE ARE SEVERAL cases: Police in Monrovia are investigating a man for the country’s limited financial and human plans, the Ethiopian government has been raping and impregnating his 15-year-old step-daughter, while a young resources, as well as the low level of available constrained by dwindling revenues and the need to man is being held by police for reportedly raping a 12-year-old girl in Tuan international support. Despite these severe reallocate budget expenditures to contain the town, resulting to death and another male adult is undergoing police constraints, the results so far have been better pandemic. It cannot please everyone, and therefore investigation for sodomizing a nine-year-old boy near the headquarters than anyone expected. has had to prioritize its modest resources. of the governing Coalition for Democratic Change in Congo Town, outskirt of Monrovia. Last month, a young man shot and killed his fiancé in From the start, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s The government’s COVID-19 economic-support Kakata, Margib County after the later quitted the relation, while a man government understood that Ethiopia’s success in package is based on the principle of shared costs and killed his lover in Bong County with a machete for suspected combating COVID-19 would depend not on the sacrifices. For example, the employers’ unfaithfulness. number of respirators it had, but on the public- confederation, labor unions, and the government VIOLENCE OF ANY kind in homes and communities pose serious risks not health measures taken to contain the virus’s agreed on a tripartite protocol to prevent layoffs just to parents but children as well, who are the most vulnerable in a spread. His government also wanted to prevent during the crisis. Government subsidies have enabled family. As the first line of protection for the home, parents have a duty to serious damage to one of Africa’s fastest-growing manufacturing exporters to benefit from zero-cost protect wellbeing of children under their care, particularly in the midst economies, which expanded at a 10.5% average rail transport and lower export logistics costs. And of a major health pandemic. annual rate in 2004-18 but remains vulnerable. the government’s new industrial-parks strategy Safeguarding these gains, preventing job losses, envisages the establishment of manufacturing hubs BUT UNDER THE excuse of going out to hustle for food for the family, and ensuring firms’ survival was critical. to produce personal protective equipment for most parents leave their children vulnerable to evil-minded men, who domestic and overseas markets. prey on them to quench their insatiable sexual desires like the case So, instead of implementing a national lockdown involving the 15-year-old minor who has forcibly become a mother thru like most other governments, including in Africa, Ethiopia continues to mobilize national resources the wicked behavior of someone who should have provided guidance over Ethiopia initiated other essential measures in and encourage voluntary activities to address the her life. January, well ahead of most developed countries. public-health emergency, with the government INSTEAD, HE TOOK advantage of her vulnerability when the mother left The government then scaled up its response in mid- ensuring close coordination among federal agencies her home and sexually abused her with threats not to tell anyone. What March, when the first COVID-19 case was reported at all levels. And although the government’s about the stories of the nine-year-old lad, who was sodomized and the in the country, and declared a state of emergency pandemic response is a work in progress, its success 12-year-old girl, who died subsequently at the James R. Davies Memorial only on April 8. Moreover, it has encouraged so far illustrates what African countries can achieve hospital in Paynesville? The lack of parental care and guidance are production and other economic activities to despite tight resource constraints. responsible. continue during the crisis, thus considerably easing the pressure on vulnerable social groups and the First and foremost, African governments must PARENTS AND GUARDIANS should be reminded in no uncertain terms that informal sector. recognize that they are facing not only a public- providing care and guidance for our children does not stop at putting food health emergency, but also a multi-dimensional crisis on the table or paying school fees, as much as these are important. But it The results so far are salutary, though we fear the with long-term implications. Standard policy also encompasses overseeing the wholesome wellbeing of the child or worst may be yet to come. As of May 26, Ethiopia – prescriptions therefore will not work. Tackling the children, which includes health, clothes, physical and emotional fitness, with a population of 109 million – had reported only crisis requires not only local and national among others. 701 cases and six deaths. That represents an government responses that take each country’s LIBERIA HAS A strong rape law and a fast track court (Court 'E') at the infection rate of 0.8% among the tested unique context into account, but also unified Temple of Justice to specifically try rape cases and bring suspected population, 80% of whom are 24-44 years old. regional and international action. perpetrators to justice. The Government of Liberia, under former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf enacted a new rape law, amending the The government’s rapid initial response was Second, the Ethiopian government has relied heavily Penal Code of June 1976 Chapter 14, Section 14.70 and 14.71, crucial. In January, it introduced strict passenger- on community mobilization and public-awareness respectively, making the crime nonbailable. According to the Rape Law of screening protocols at Addis Ababa’s international campaigns, which have proved to be effective and January 2006, a person who has sexual intercourse with another person airport, East Africa’s largest aviation hub. The cost-efficient. It has also relied on the country’s (male and female) without his or her consent, has committed rape that is Ministry of Health and local and regional prevention-based primary public health-care punishable by 10 years or life imprisonment, depending on the degree of governments jointly conducted house-to-house infrastructure and the health extension system that the rape which may be categorized as (rape of a minor, rape resulting in screenings of more than 11 million households was built up during the last two decades. serious bodily harm, rape using a weapon, and gang rape), respectively. containing 40 million people in the capital and provinces. And diagnostic testing was scaled up Third, the government ensured a coherent response BUT THE LIBERIAN Senate in 2017 amended the new Rape Law, making it bailable. The Senate Judiciary Committee argued that the punishment from zero in early March to over 5,000 tests per day by maximizing coordination among public agencies at for rape as provided in the Rape Law is excessive and therefore by May, though it continues to be a major different levels. It also engaged in dialogue with the unconstitutional, citing Article 21 (d) (ii) of the 1986 Constitution of challenge. private sector to find workable solutions when global Liberia, which states that excessive bail shall not be required, nor brands and buyers abandoned their suppliers in excessive fines imposed, nor excessive punishment inflicted on Public awareness and education have been central developing countries. perpetrators. to the government’s effort. The prime minister makes regular public announcements regarding Fourth, resource-constrained African countries NOTWITHSTANDING, WE STILL believe strongly that though the law is on COVID-19, while the health minister provides daily cannot provide government and charitable support the book or it may have been modified as per the Senate's amendment, briefings. And, as part of a concerted media to all groups and firms. Governments must prioritize the first line of defend for children is parents. If parents truly care and campaign to reach all citizens, state-owned and target their limited resources at companies, and love their children, they would go extra mile in ensuring their wellbeing, telecoms monopoly Ethio Telecom uses cell-phone tie that support to performance criteria in order to and by extension reducing domestic and sexual violence in our ring tones to remind people of the importance of incentivize vital social goals like employment communities. hygiene measures such as hand washing, social retention. Learning what works and what does not in distancing, and wearing facemasks. This platform that regard has been a vital catalyst in Ethiopia’s has shown positive effects. response.

Furthermore, since February, the Ethiopian Finally, it is too early to judge the pandemic response authorities have implemented a strict regime of mounted by Ethiopia and other African countries rigorous contact tracing, isolation, compulsory because governments still have to scale up their quarantine, and treatment. The government efforts to tackle the inevitable “surge” stage of the converted public universities’ dormitories to crisis. But one lesson is already clear: African increase the capacity of quarantine centers to over governments’ COVID-19 strategies must reflect the 50,000 beds, established additional isolation local context, the evolving nature of the pandemic, centers with a total of 15,000 beds, and set up binding resource constraints, and weak international treatment centers with a 5,000-bed capacity. It collaboration. Published by the Searchlight Communications Inc., UN Drive, P.O. Box 1266 Opposite National Investment Commission. also introduced more comprehensive life insurance Monrovia-Liberia. Tel: +231-06484201, +231-77007529, +231-886978282 / +231-775407211 Managing Editor: Othello B. Garblah; Editor-In-Chief: Jonathan Copyright: Project Syndicate, 2020. www.project-syndicate.org THURSDAY JUNE 04 2020 www .thenewdawnliberia.com NEW DA WN 4

O-ped By Kenneth Rogoff Opinion By Ian Buruma Deglobalization Will Hurt Another Long, Hot Growth Every where Summer in America Even if the United States turns a blind eye to deglobalization’s effects on the rest of the world, it should remember that the current abundant demand for dollar assets depends Many Americans are clearly horrified by President Donald Trump's crass and incendiary heavily on the vast trade and financial system that some American politicians aim to words in response to the protests sweeping the country's major cities. But will age-old shrink. If deglobalization goes too far, no country will be spared. racial prejudices, often unspoken, or even acknowledged, still make them vote for the false security of a coarse white bully?

AMBRIDGE – The post-pandemic world economy seems likely to be a far less globalized EW YORK – Could the United States be facing a reprise of the summer of 1968? Then, economy, with political leaders and publics rejecting openness in a manner unlike too, the world saw images of popular rage boiling over in America, as mostly African- Canything seen since the tariff wars and competitive devaluations of the 1930s. And the NAmerican inner cities went up in flames, and young people were tear-gassed, byproduct will be not just slower growth, but a significant fall in national incomes for all but charged at, and often brutally beaten by riot police and National Guardsmen. perhaps the largest and most diversified economies. The result of the civil disorder was what some liberals in America fear will happen later this In his prescient 2001 book The End of Globalization, the Princeton economic historian Harold year. The Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon promised the “silent majority,” James showed how an earlier era of global economic and financial integration collapsed the “non-shouters,” and the “non-demonstrators,” that he would restore law and order under the pressures of unexpected events during the Great Depression of the 1930s, with force. Devastated, mostly African-American urban areas were starved of federal funds culminating in World War II. Today, the COVID-19 pandemic appears to be accelerating and further isolated, white suburbanites bought more guns, and police forces were armed another withdrawal from globalization. as though they were a branch of the military.

The current retreat began with Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 US presidential election, The trouble in 1968, like the protests today, also started with anger against the oppression which led to tariff wars between the United States and China. The pandemic will likely have of black people in America. A day after Martin Luther King, Jr., declared that “the nation is an even larger negative long-term impact on trade, partly because governments increasingly sick,” he was shot dead by a white racist criminal. The protests that followed were not just recognize that they need to regard public-health capacity as a national-security imperative. an expression of anger at King’s murder, but also the lack of economic and educational opportunities that were the result of a long and often violent racist history. The risk today of a debilitating 1930s-style overshoot in deglobalization is massive, particularly if the US-China relationship continues to fray. And it is folly to think that a Despite an African-American’s two terms in the White House, conditions today are hardly chaotic, crisis-driven retreat from globalization will not introduce more – and vastly more better – and in some ways worse. King’s violent death was echoed this year by that of serious – problems. George Floyd, the defenseless 46-year-old black man in Minneapolis killed by a policeman who kneeled on his neck for almost nine minutes. Even the US, with its highly diversified economy, world-leading technology, and strong natural-resource base, could suffer a significant decline in real GDP as a result of Moreover, COVID-19 has hit African-Americans with particular fury, because many lack deglobalization. For smaller economies and developing countries that are unable to reach financial savings and are forced to work in risky areas, as nurses and other “essential critical mass in many sectors and often lack natural resources, a breakdown in trade would workers,” often without proper health care. Once the global depression sinks in, many reverse many decades of growth. And that is before considering the long-lasting impact of won’t be cushioned by anything at all. social-distancing and quarantine measures. And yet, there are important differences between now and the summer of 1968, apart from The late economist Alberto Alesina, a towering figure in the field of political economy, the fact that the music was more interesting then, and there were more sexual argued that for a well-governed country in the age of globalization, small can be beautiful. opportunities. The last point is not entirely frivolous. Being effectively locked up in relative But today, small countries that lack a close economic alliance with a large state or union face isolation for several months will only have added to the frustrations of many young people, huge economic risks. who are only too glad to vent them in the streets. True, globalization has fueled economic inequalities among the approximately one billion people who live in advanced economies. Trade competition has hammered low-wage The protests in 1968 were not just about racial inequality, but also about the Vietnam War. The two issues were related. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responsible for escalating that workers in some sectors, even while making goods less expensive for everyone. Financial globalization has arguably had an even larger effect by increasing the profits of reckless and savage war, was a Democrat, the same man who passed civil rights bills that multinational corporations and offering new high-return foreign-investment instruments for had actually improved African-Americans’ lives, and by doing so provoked the hatred of the wealthy, especially since 1980. many Southern voters, who switched their allegiance to the Republican Party, helping to push it further to the right. In his 2014 bestseller Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty cited rising income and wealth inequalities as evidence that capitalism has failed. But whom has it failed? The “shouters” and “demonstrators” that Nixon railed against were not just black people, Outside of the advanced economies – where 86% of the world’s population lives – global but also young whites who resisted being forced to fight in a war they considered immoral. capitalism has lifted billions of people out of desperate poverty. Surely, therefore, an Robert F. Kennedy, the candidate who promised to end the war and who visited the burning overshoot in deglobalization risks hurting far more people than it helps. ghettos to calm African-Americans’ fears, was assassinated two months after King.

To be sure, the current model of globalization needs adjusting, particularly by greatly Nixon won the election that November not only because he soothed the panicked “silent strengthening the social safety net in advanced economies and – to the extent possible – in majority” with promises of law and order, but also because Hubert Humphrey, a decent emerging markets, too. But building resilience does not mean tearing down the entire mainstream Democrat, refused to condemn the Vietnam War. Joe Biden, this year’s system and starting over again. presumptive Democratic candidate, has shown that for all his flaws, he may not be another Hubert Humphrey. His sympathies are clearly with the demonstrators. Biden has publicly The US has more to lose from deglobalization than some of its politicians, on both the right recalled many instances of police violence against unarmed black people and promised to and the left, seem to realize. For starters, the global trading system is part of a compact reform law enforcement. whereby the US gets to be the hegemon in a world where most countries, including China, have a stake in making the international order work. In bad times, the challenger has a certain advantage. Just as Johnson was held accountable for escalating an increasingly unpopular war, the current occupant of the White House will Aside from its political ramifications, deglobalization also poses economic risks to America. have to own the sickness of America today. Donald Trump cannot be blamed for the COVID- In particular, many of the benign factors that today allow the US government and American 19 pandemic, but he can be held accountable for botching the response. corporations to borrow vastly more than any other country are likely tied to the dollar’s role at the center of the system. And a wide array of economic models show that as tariffs and Likewise, the institutional racism that once again is setting America’s streets on fire did not trade frictions increase, financial globalization decreases at least proportionately. This not begin with Trump. But he has deliberately fanned the flames by insulting dark-skinned only implies a sharp fall in both multinationals’ profits and stock-market wealth (which is immigrants as criminals and calling armed white supremacists decent, by dismissing angry probably fine with some), but also could mean a significant drop in foreign demand for US black protesters as “thugs,” and encouraging militiamen, guardsmen, and policemen to do debt. their worst, or as he put it with a snarl: “Please don’t be too nice.”

That would hardly be ideal at a time when the US needs to borrow massively in order to While some groups on the far right in the US talk, hopefully, of a coming “race war,” Trump preserve social, economic, and political stability. Just as globalization has been a major does nothing to dampen their violent enthusiasm. On the contrary, he seems to revel in it. driver of today’s low inflation and interest rates, shifting the process into reverse could Trump’s recent tweet that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” is a direct quote eventually push prices and rates in the other direction, especially given what appears to be a from the police chief of Miami, Florida, who ordered his troopers in 1967 to aim their lasting adverse supply shock from COVID-19. shotguns at demonstrators from the “negro areas” in his city.

Needless to say, there are other battles ahead requiring international cooperation, not least This is called “stirring up the base.” And much of Trump’s base surely will be stirred up. The climate change. It will be even harder to motivate developing economies to rein in their big question in November will be what people who voted for him in 2016, but are not as carbon dioxide emissions if a global trade collapse undercuts the single strongest common fanatical in their support, will do. What are white suburban women, midwestern blue- incentive that countries have to maintain global peace and prosperity. collar workers, and elderly southerners (who are among most vulnerable to COVID-19 infection) thinking now? Last but not least, although COVID-19 has so far hit Europe and the US harder than it has most lower-income countries, there is still a huge risk of a humanitarian tragedy in Africa and Many Americans are clearly horrified by their president’s crass and incendiary words. But other poorer regions. Is now really the right time to undercut these countries’ ability to fend will their disapproval be offset by anxiety about violent social unrest? Will age-old racial for themselves? prejudices, often unspoken, or even acknowledged, still make them vote for the false security of a coarse white bully? Even if the US turns a blind eye to deglobalization’s effects on the rest of the world, it should remember that the current abundant demand for dollar assets depends heavily on the vast Much will depend on how hot this summer gets. If people think rationally in November, it is trade and financial system that some American politicians aim to shrink. If deglobalization hard to imagine that enough of them would vote to keep this appalling administration in goes too far, no country will be spared. power for another four years. But fear is reason’s worst enemy. Copyright: Project Syndicate, 2020. www.project-syndicate.org Copyright: Project Syndicate, 2020. www.project-syndicate.org THURSDAY JUNE 04 2020 www .thenewdawnliberia.com NEW DA WN 5 NPHIL boss wants 2 regional GT Bank ordered Starts from back page laboratories established leaving the victim to disgracefully establishes his allegation by a walk through the banking hall to find preponderance of the evidence. counties. -for Covid-19 testing his car. Judge Dunbar notes that the Bong County is one of five Counties Freeman argued that the injuries, assault resulted in Freeman sustaining he Director General of the including Bomi, Grand Cape Mount, humiliation and embarrassment a cut on his lower lips which made him National Public Health Grand Gedeh and Rivergee that have caused by Bejide were done during to bleed profusely, leading the TInstitute of Liberia (NPHIL) not recorded cases of the virus. Nimba the normal course of duty at the complainant to take treatment at a Dr. MosokaFallah, is suggesting County has recorded seven cases and bank’s premises during a meeting. local health facility at the S.K.D. establishment of two regional testing four deaths. He therefore requested the court Boulevard. labs at Phebe Hospital in Bong County Accordingly, Dr. Fallah said the to hold both the bank and its He explains that an employer’s and Fish Town, Rivergee County, establishment of the two regional labs managing director Bejide liable for liability under the doctrine of respectively to is necessary to speedily run tests of the injuries, humiliation and respondeat superior depends on the help ramp up the Country’s testing infectious diseases like Covid-19. embarrassment he suffered because facts and circumstances of each case, capacity and put health authorities in “In terms of preparedness, we want at the time of the incident, his including whether the employee’s a better position to contain the spread to know about the lab. One of the attacker was an employee of the bank conduct is closely related in time, of the virus. things we’re trying to push for is to and was acting within the scope of his place and causation to the job, so that He made the call in the wake of have decentralizing labs because the employment. activity is a foreseeable risk of the ongoing assessment tour of six structures are already set for During the proceeding, GT Bank’s particular employment. counties here. molecular testing,” noted the NPHIL Human Resource Manager Mrs. Saydah In the instant case, Judge Dunbar NPHIL and the Ministry of Health boss. Miller - Duncan testified that she was rules that the wrongful conduct (MoH) are conducting series of H e v o w e d t h e I n s t i t u t e ’s not in office when the incident complained of - assault on the person occurred on 28 August 2018, but of Freeman - was carried out by Bejide added that Mr. Bejide was placed on the bank’s premises during normal under indefinite suspension by the working hours, and in the normal and board of directors and the group’s ordinary course of business. office after the incident. “There is no way 1st defendant (GT Ruling on the matter Wednesday, Bank) can successfully argue that it Judge Dunbar rules that Mr. Freeman cannot be held vicariously liable for established his case against the the injuries sustained by plaintiff,” he defendants by a preponderance of rules. evidence. 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Add a new para. 3 and Bong, Nimba, Margibi, Grand Bassa, Genexpert test is a molecular test renumber paras 3 - 8 as follows: “Bidders may bid for one or several contracts, as further defined in the bidding document. Bidders wishing to offer discounts in case they are awarded more than one contract will be allowed to do Bomi and Grand Cape Mount Counties for TB. Expert diagnoses TB by so, provided those discounts are included in the Letter of Bid.” 2 Insert if applicable: “This contract will be jointly financed by Kredietanstalt fur Wiederaufbau (KfW). Bidding to asses health situations in those detecting the presence of TB bacteria, process will be governed by the „Welthungerhilfe guidelines, governing the bidding process.” BID DOCUMENT FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF INCINERATORS areas. as well as testing for resistance to the FOR KARQUEKPO CLINIC IN KARQUEKPO TOWN, DUGBEH RIVER DISTRICT, The team first headed to Bong and drug Rifampicin. -Editing by SINOE COUNTY And FOR KONOBO HEALTH CENTER Nimba Counties recently and assessed Jonathan Browne IN ZIAH TOWN, ZIAH DISTRICT, GRAND GEDEH COUNTY response strategies and Precautionary TECHNICAL AND FINANCIAL BID JUNE 2020 Bidding will be conducted by means of a single stage National Competitive Bidding procedure with Observation Centers in the two integrated post qualification (one envelope) as specified in the KfW Guidelines for the Procurement of Consulting Services, Works, Plant, Goods and Non-Consulting Services in Financial Cooperation with Partner Countries (“KfW Guidelines”) and in line with Welthungerhilfe Rules and Regulations for Award of Contracts and evaluation and award criteria as set out in this bidding document Interested eligible Bidders may obtain further information from Welthungerhilfe Liberia Jacqueline Harris, Head of Project-ESP-II [email protected] A complete set of bidding documents is available to interested Bidders at Welthungerhilfe Offices in Greenville, Zwedru and Monrovia in soft copies on CDs The Bidding documents in English are free of charge and will be issued to interested bidders on the submission of a written application to the address below at section II, B, Bidding Documents. Bids must be delivered to the address indicated in the clause ITB 22.1 of the bidding document on or before 4:00 pm Monday, June 15, 2020. Late Bids will be rejected. Bids will be publicly opened in the presence of the bidders’ designated representatives who choose to attend at the address below at 10:00am, Friday June 19, 2020 All Bids must be accompanied by a Bid Security . n/a There shall be a site visit in Sinoe County (WHH Greenville office) between 11:00am and 16:00GMT on the Wednesday, 10th June 2020,Friday 12th June 2020 and dates indicated in the proposed schedule in this notice. (a) Documents may be inspected at: Welthungerhilfe Liberia Country Offices, Opposite Fish Market, Adjacent the Blue Crest University, Tubman Boulevard, Monrovia. Contact Nasser S. Baki (Head of Logistics), (b) Documents will be issued from: Welthungerhilfe Liberia Greenville Office, Sinoe County. C ontact Abraham Raynes (Logistics Administrator), Welthungerhilfe Liberia Zwedru Office, Grand Gedeh County. Contact James Zekpa (Senior Logistics Officer), OR Welthungerhilfe Liberia Country Offices, Opposite Fish Market, Adjacent the Blue Crest Univ ersity, Tubman Boulevard, Monrovia. Contact Nasser S. Baki (Area Logistics Officer), (c) Bids must be delivered to: Welthungerhilfe Liberia Country Offices, Opposite Fish Market, Adjacent the Blue Crest University, Tubman Boulevard, Monrovia. Contact Nasse r S Baki (Area Head of Logistics), Welthungerhilfe Liberia Greenville Office, Farmersville, Contact Abraham Raynes (Logistics Administrator), And Welthungerhilfe Liberia Zwedru Office, Grand Gedeh County. Contact James Zekpa (Senior Logistics Officer), (d) Address of bid opening: Welthungerhilfe Liberia Country Offices, Opposite Fish Market, Adjacent the Blue Crest University, Tubman Boulevard, Monrovia. Contact Nasser S Baki (Area Head of Logistics), Daily The Planned Procurement Schedule (subject to changes) is as follows: Activity Date

a. Publish bid notice June3, 2020 June 10 to 12, 2020 b. Site visit where applicable c. Bid closing date June 15, 2020 d. Public Bid Opening June 19, 2020

e. Display and communication of best (Within 5 working days from Contracts evaluated bidder notice Committee award) f. Contract signature June 29, 2020 Signature: Name: Jacqueline Harris Position of Authorized Of ficial: Head of Project THURSDAY JUNE 04 2020 www .thenewdawnliberia.com NEW DA WN 6 More headline news More headline news Information Minister Rep. Kogar wants Internal Affairs, Police invited laments media plight By Bridgett Milton By Ethel A. Tweh Nagbe notes that the media Women, the United Nations i m b a C o u n t y one Nimbaian by the name iberia’s Minister of is underpaid, as compared to and the Government of Electoral District #5 Clinton Gaye and his body is at Information, Cultural other countries, including lack Liberia, the MICAT boss NRep. Samuel G. Kogar the Tapita Hospital, while two LAffairs and Tourism of insurance, poor working underscores that the Liberian is seeking the House of others to be identified at the Lenn Eugene Nagbe, who is on condition, low salaries for staff society needs a strong media Representatives’ indulgence same hospital, are also on a record for tongue-lashing the as well as lack of equipment, to have a strong democracy, for Internal Affairs Minister critical list. Press Union of Liberia, the among other limitations. saying that government Varney Sirleaf and Liberia Based on the seriousness of umbrella body for journalists Speaking via zoom at a should empower the media to National Police (LNP) Inspector the issue, Rep. Kogar says he is here, says the media in workshop organized by the effectively carry on its General Col. Patrick Sudue to s e e k i n g t h e p l e n a r y ’s Liberia and other parts of Female Journalists Association functions. appear and give a status report indulgence to invite the two Africa is treated as a step- of Liberia in collaboration with He also observes that child. the European Union, UN sexual based violence in Liberia has been a problem prior to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, noting that it is not an easy thing to tackle. Tuesday’s workshop was geared at training reporters to adequately report on gender and sexual based violence that has experienced a spike across the country amid the pandemic. Nagbe stresses that the media is key in uniting the society and bringing an end to violence against women and girls. The Head of Delegate of the European Union to Liberia, Theodorus Kasper, Rep. Samuel G. Kogar observes that violence against women and girls has been on Minister Lenn Eugene Nagbe CONT’D ON PAGE 10 on serious issues concerning officials for the purpose of Nimbaians living in River Cess giving a status report onthe County. issue. According to Kogar, since Following his request, the the beginning of May 2020, House of Representatives has No foreign vehicle entering Liberia some Liberians from Nimba forwarded the communication County who were living in the to the committee on Internal to return to wherever country special flights coming to Sand Beach Community, River Affairs and Judiciary to report and this is in conformity with Liberia are quarantined for 14 -Immigration Chief Cess County went missing. to the body within one week.-- the restriction, and the health days as per health protocol, By Lewis S. Teh He complains that the Edited by Winston W. Parley protocol that the government but “this is not necessarily situation led to the death of he Commissioner of instituted.” done all the time and that is t h e L i b e r i a Liberia shut down its air, land because we don’t have the TImmigration Service and sea borders in March except capacity to quarantine huge or LIS, Robert Buddy reaffirms for special flights as a result of number of people.” government’s commitment to Liberian diplomat the novel coronavirus. As of C o m m i s s i o n e r B u d d y protecting the land, air, and Wednesday, June 03, 2020, the continues that the there are sea borders of the country, country has recorded 316 total high security restriction at n o t i n g t h a t i n s t r i c t confirmed cases, including 169 various land borders and ports in Cameroon dies adherence to Covid-19 active cases, 28 deaths and of entry to minimize spread of he Charge d’ Affairs distinction.. regulations every entry point about 170 recoveries. and Head of Mission of According to the Liberian in Liberia remains closed to He says occupants onboard CONT’D ON PAGE 10 the Liberian Embassy Foreign Ministry he was a the public. T in Cameroon is reported dead, dedicated public servant who “As you may be aware, the according to the Ministry of served his country, the LIS has played a pivotal role to Foreign Affairs. Republic of Liberia and people securing all of our entry points Charge d’ Affairs Siaka G. with distinction. across this country, and this Fahnbulleh, Sr, died on Meanwhile, the Ministry of action on the part of the LIS is Tuesday June 2, 2020 in F o r e i g n A f f a i r s e x t e n d to limit the widespread of the Corona virus which has Cameroon. No information heartfelt sympathy to the brought the world on its about the cause of death has bereave family for the loss of knees”, says the immigration been given. this distinguish personality, the chief. The late Charge d’ Affairs Ministry is currently working Speaking on Prime Morning Fahnbullehjoined the Liberian with the bereave family, to Drive, a live talk show hosted Foreign Service in the late 90’s have his remains repatriated to by Prime FM in Monrovia, a position in which he served Liberia for a befitting burial. Commissioner Buddy however w i t h d e d i c a t i o n a n d discloses that there are cross border movement of goods to Liberia, but not individuals. He explains that all vehicles coming into Liberia with goods are discharged or offloaded at the border, saying, “We will take the LIS Boss, Robert Buddy goods and allow that vehicle THURSDAY JUNE 04 2020 www .thenewdawnliberia.com NEW DA WN 7 More headline news More headline news Weah wants public health law amended UNDP turns over SGBV By Bridgett Milton Tuesday, 2 June from President does not reflect current day resident George Weah, he indicates that he is health realities. - renovated court Manneh Weah has pleased to submit to the House President Weah says the 42 By Joseph Titus Yekeryan Pwritten the House of o f Re p r e s e n t a t i v e s f o r - year - old Public Health Law Representatives requesting enactment of the Public Health does not address new and r e n o v a t e d T h e r e n o v a t i o n a n d an amendment in the 1976 Law of Liberia as Revised emerging public health specialized Sexual furnishing of the court in challenges such as emergency Aand Gender-Based Nimba were completed in treatment, discrimination and Violence (SGBV) Court in Bong February 2020, and trainings of mental health. County has been turned over to 63 justice sector actors He notes further that the the Judiciary by UNDP after including judges, prosecutors, a n t i q u a t e d l a w l a c k s two months of renovation work police officers, court clerks, regulation on nutrition, as part of a Joint Rule of Law judiciary case liaison officers, reproductive health rights, Program implemented by victim support officers, regulation of marketing of UNDP and OHCHR in Liberia. psycho-social counsellors, products for infants and young Funding was made available gender coordinators and children, zoonotic disease, by the governments of Sweden human rights monitors were non-communicable disease, through its Embassy near conducted in Bong and Nimba antimicrobial resistance, Monrovia and Ireland through to strengthen capacities for c l i n i c a l t r i a l s a n d Irish Aid. specialized services. c o m p l e m e n t a r y a n d The program according to a These trained personnel alternative medicine. UNDP release was designed have been deployed to support According to Mr. Weah, the and implemented in close the courts. intention of the new proposed collaboration with the The Joint Program also Public Health Law as Revised Judiciary, the Ministry of provides technical and (2020) is to address all of the Justice and other relevant capacity building support to challenges including collating institutional counterparts. W o m e n a n d C h i l d r e n and integrating the separate It seeks to enhance the Protection Sections (WACPS) of laws governing the public c a p a c i t i e s o f j u d i c i a l the Liberia National Police health system. President George Manneh Weah Meanwhile the House has f o r w a r d e d t h e c o m m u n i c a t i o n t o t h e Public Health Law to reflect (2020). Committees on Health and current day health realities. He notes that the Title 33 Judiciary to report in two A c c o r d i n g t o a Public Health Law of Liberia as weeks.--Edited by Winston communication sent to the adopted on 16 July 1976 has a W. Parley House of Representatives life spanning over 42 years and Tension brews between Nimba and Rivercess Rivercess residents, the head -over 2 suspicious deaths of the group told the governor By Ben P. Wesee now was excused of throwing that the case will be proven in i m b a C o u n t y witch on a girl that brought to the devil bush. D i s t r i c t F o u r Monrovia for treatment but He said upon hearing the NR e p r e s e n t a t i v e later pronounced dead. It was a n g r y r e s i d e n t s ’ Gunpue L. Kargon has based on the accusation that disenchantment, the mines alarmed about a looming some Rivercess residents governor advised that the conflict between the people s t o r m e d t h e m i n e a n d devil bush would not be the of Nimba and Rivercess over demanded the mine governor to right venue, rather, it was the death of a Nimba citizen turn Clinton over to them," he necessary to invite the Liberia in Rivercess County. further narrated. National Police to probe the A c c o r d i n g t o According to the lawmaker, girl’s death. when the mines governor Representative Kargon, the CONT’D ON PAGE 11 body of the deceased, Clinton sought evidence from the angry personnel and build public which provides specialized Gaye, is decomposing while confidence in the various investigation services and family members grieve and j u s t i c e a n d s e c u r i t y protection in SGBV cases. await police investigation. institutions with the aim of Similar support is provided "I'm calling on the police to strengthening access to t o t h e S G B V C r i m e s make quick intervention; this j u s t i c e , s e c u r i t y a n d Prosecution Unit of the is my third time appearing on protection services, especially Ministry of Justice. The radio to talk about this issue, for women and girls. establishment of the courts in this morning, it is getting very Due to the increase of SGBV Bong and Nimba counties will tense and very embarrassing; cases and the need to reduce the pressure on the people are just calling me p r i o r i t i z e t i m e l y a n d SGBV court in Monrovia, where from all over," the Nimba specialized prosecution, the all such cases were previously lawmaker alarmed. Judiciary of Liberia decided to referred. He narrated that it all establish specialized courts B o n g C o u n t y G e n d e r started in Rivercee County that will deal exclusively with Coordinator AnnitaRennie when a kinsmen from Nimba such cases. extends commendations to identified as Clinton Gaye had S u b s e q u e n t t o t h e UNDP and the Ministry of gone to Rivercess to seek establishment of the first SGBV Justice for the job well done. greener pastures at a local court in Monrovia, a decision "We are grateful to them for mine known as Sand Beach was made to expand the reach seeing the need to help create Gold Mine, but was excused of of such courts to Bong and access to justice especially involvement in witchcraft Nimba counties with support when it comes to SGBV issues,” activity. Representative Gunpue L. Kargon from the UNDP/OHCHR Joint she says.--Edited by Winston "Clinton Gaye who is dead Rule of Law Program. W. Parley THURSDAY JUNE 04 2020 www .thenewdawnliberia.com NEW DA WN 8 Français L’opposition rejettele report de la date des élections sénatoriales partielles Éditorial es partis politiques proposé des élections lors des difficultés financières de l’opposition ne d'une audition au Sénat le a u x q u e l l e s e l l e e s t Lsont pas d’avis avec mercredi 27 mai après que la confrontée. La véritable réconciliation ne la commission électorale présidente par intérim du La NEC a plaidé auprès du nationale qui propose le Conseil des commissaires de la Sénat libérien pour le report se fait pas au bout des lèvres ! r e p o r t d e s é l e c t i o n s NEC, Mme DavidettaLansana, des élections sénatoriales de sénatoriales partielles a révélé la semaine dernière m i - m a n d a t j u s q u ' e n LA RÉCONCILIATION NATIONALE VÉRITABLE continuera de initialement prévues pour que la commission ne disposait décembre. La présidente par glisser entre les mains des Libériens pendant longtemps parce octobres jusqu'au mois de pas de moyens financiers intérim du Conseil des que les dirigeants du pays semblent manquer de volonté décembre de cette année. suffisants pour organiser les commissaires de la NEC, politique pour promouvoir cet élément indispensable à la L’opposition libérienne élections sénatoriales à la Mme Lansanah, a déclaré cohésion nationale. Une nation si divisée dans son existence dit craindre que ce report date initialement prévue. que la pandémie liée au historique et politique ne peut aller plus loin. entraînedes incertitudes et Selon Mme Lansana, la NEC coronavirus a empiré les l’insécuritédans le pays. n'a pas été à même de choses en mettant à mal le LES LIBERIENS CÉLÈBRENT LE 14 MAI chaque année comme Les partis politiques issus respecter le chronogramme b o n d é r o u l e m e n t d e s Journée nationale de l'unification, instaurée par le 18e de l’opposition ont exprimé fixé pour le bon déroulement opérations préparatoires, président William V.S. Tubman, qui voyait un besoin impérieux leur opposition au report du scrutin de 2020en raison dont l’acquisition du d'unir les citoyens autochtones et les anciens esclaves matériel électoral qui est d'Amérique, qui se sont installés ici et ont exercé une position généralement importé de dominante sur ceux qu'ils ont trouvés sur place, peut-être en l'extérieur du pays. raison de l'influence des anciens maîtres esclavagistes. Comparaissant devant le comité Sénatorial pour les LA POLITIQUE DE DIVISION ou la politique d'exclusion est un affaires judiciaires présidé vice qui a dressé les moins de 5 millions d’habitants les uns par le sénateur Varney contre les autres, attisant en eux la haine, l’envie, la cupidité Sherman, Mme Lansana,a et l’étroitesse d'esprit. révélé qu'il faudra du temps à la NEC pour commander les LE PRÉSIDENT GEORGE MANNEH Weah a déclaré que la documents et les autres Journée nationale de l’unification de cette année ne pouvait matériels électoraux auprès pas être commémorée officiellement en raison de la lutte de la Chine ou d'autres contre le coronavirus dans le pays. Mais en vérité, qu'est-ce f o u r n i s s e u r s , d ’ o ù l a qu'il y avait à célébrer ? nécessité d’accepter que les élections soient reportées MONSIEUR WEAH lui-même, qui dirigeait autrefois la jusqu’au mois de décembre réconciliation nationale du Libéria sous la direction de de cette année. l'ancienne présidente Ellen Johnson Sirleaf avant de C’est alors que le Sénat remporter la présidence en 2017, n'a pas lancé de programme l i b é r i e n a i n v i t é l e s significatif pour rassembler les Libériens, bien qu'il provienne représentants des partis d'un segment marginalisé et politiquement défavorisé de la politiques à comparaître société. CONT’D ON PAGE 9 CERTAINS POURRAIT PENSER qu'il aurait pu adapter une telle posture alors dans l’opposition pour des raisons politiques évidentes, ne voulant que le leader dont il visait Affaire George Floyd : les États impatiemment le fauteuil prenne la gloire ou le mérite. A noter aussi que l'ex-présidente Sirleaf elle-même avait Unis accusent Harare d’ingérence déclaré publiquement que sa véritable faiblesse était son Un incident diplomatique Zimbabwe prend en compte travers les réseaux sociaux, incapacité de pardonner. Elle n'avait naturellement non plus a éclaté entre le Zimbabwe et l’article 2 (4) de la charte des d e p u i s l e d é b u t d e s aucun désir ni intérêt de pardonner à ses ennemis. les Etats-Unis après qu’un Nations Unies qui exige à tous m a n i f e s t a t i o n s d e l a haut responsable de la Maison les Etats membres de respecter c o m m u n a u t é n o i r e NONOBSTANT, alors voici M. Weah, maintenant président, qui Blanche a déclaré que le pays l’intégrité territoire et américaine suite à une dit qu’il ne s'assoirait jamais avec des opposants pour f a i s a i t p a r t i e d e s « l’indépendance politique de violence policière menant à la échanger des points de vue et des idées sur les moyens non adversaires étrangers » tout état ».Le diplomate mort de George Floyd. seulement d'unir les Libériens, mais de faire avancer le pays, profitant des manifestations américain a déclaré que son L’ambassadeur a par parce que ces derniers ne cessent de critiquer son antiracistes liées à la mort de pays avait noté un tir groupé ailleurs menacé ces pays de gouvernement. George Floyd pour s’immiscer des gouvernements chinois, représailles sans donner de dans les affaires américaines. iranien, russe et zimbabwéen à détails. PAR CONSEQUENT, LE LIBERIA CONTINUE de se débattre Le ministre zimbabwéen comme un beau diable dans ce bourbier malheureux avec des des Affaires étrangères, dirigeants qui parlent de réconciliation sur le bout des lèvres SibusisoMoyo, a déclaré à la et non du fond du cœur. Ils prêchent une chose en public dont presse avoir convoqué la signification est totalement opposée de ce qui est dit. l’ambassadeur des Etats-Unis Brian Nichols à son bureau L'ANCIEN PRÉSIDENT Charles Ghankay Taylor, issu du milieu p o u r e x p r i m e r l a américano-libérien ou descendent des colons, a dit que son préoccupation de Harare face plus grand regret en tant qu'ancien chef, était de ne pas avoir aux propos du conseiller à la été en mesure de réconcilier les Libériens. Il a mené une sécurité nationale du incursion sanglante rebelle en 1989 contre le premier Président Donald Trump, Robert Obrien. président indigène du Libéria, Samuel KanyonDoe, en Pour le chef de la représailles contre ce dernier pour avoir renversé le régime diplomatie zimbabwéenne, de Tolbert, qui était dominé par les colons. M. Obrien soutient que Harare s’est liguée avec CETTE DIVISION NATIONALE date de plus d'un siècle et, de d’autres pays pour alimenter toute évidence, est ancrée dans les mœurs. Les 14 années les tensions à Washington. (1989-2003) de guerre civile ont même exacerbé la situation. Selon le quotidien The Les gens sont divisés en tribus, clans, communautés, daily, M. Moyo aurait « directement en ménages et familles. rappelé à M. Nichols que le THURSDAY JUNE 04 2020 www .thenewdawnliberia.com NEW DA WN 9 Français L’opposition rejettele

report de la date Commentaire Par Arkebe Oqubay devant le Comité judiciaire présidente par intérim de la du Sénat afin d'obtenir leur NEC, tout en affirmant que la position sur la demande de NEC a formé des agents La réponse non conventionnelle prolongation des élections électoraux issus des partis sénatoriales de mi-mandat. politiques et a bel et bien de l’Éthiopie au Covid-19 Représentant le Congrès associé les partis politiques national alternatif, un parti dans le nettoyage de la liste DDIS-ABÉBA – À la surprise de beaucoup, les membre de la nouvelle électorale de 2017 et pour les gouvernements africains ont répondu rapidement Si de nombreuses économies avancées ou émergentes ont alliance des principaux élections partielles du comté Aet avec détermination à la crise du Covid-19. mis en œuvre d’énormes plans de sauvegarde ou de p a r t i s p o l i t i q u e s d e de Montserrado. L’approche non conventionnelle de l’Éthiopie relève relance économique, le gouvernement éthiopien est limité ainsi non seulement des ressources humaines et par des recettes qui s’épuisent et la nécessité où il se l’opposition intitulée C’est aussi le cas de Me Cole financières limitées du pays, mais du faible niveau trouve de réallouer ses dépenses budgétaires afin (CollaboratingPolitical Bangalore, qui représentait le d’aide internationale disponible. d’endiguer la pandémie. Il ne peut satisfaire tout le monde Parties (CPP)), Me Lafayette Parti de l'unité, qui est aussi et doit donc définir des priorités en fonction de ses Horatio Gould a exigé que le membre du CPP. Il veut vaille Dès le début, le gouvernement du Premier ministre Abyi modestes ressources. Ahmed a compris que le succès de l’Éthiopie dans son scrutin se tienne à la date que vaille les électionsaient combat contre le Covid-19 ne dépendrait pas du nombre Le plan de soutien gouvernemental contre la pandémie de initialement prévue, en lieu le 13 octobre de cette de respirateurs artificiels dont elle pourrait disposer, Covid-19 est fondé sur le principe d’un partage des coûts et octobre. année comme prévue. Pour mais des mesures de santé publique qu’elle pourrait des sacrifices. Ainsi les confédérations patronales, les Il a fait valoir que la lui, le report des élections prendre pour contenir la diffusion du virus. Les pouvoirs syndicats des travailleurs et les pouvoirs publics ont-ils publics ont aussi pris en compte les dégâts que la approuvé un protocole tripartite afin d’empêcher les Commission électorale et le établira un mauvais précédent pandémie était susceptible d’occasionner à l’une des licenciements durant la crise. Des subventions publiques gouvernement du Libéria dans l’histoire électorale du économies d’Afrique dont le développement est le plus ont permis aux exportateurs manufacturiers de bénéficier auraient dû être préparés à pays. rapide, puisque sa production enregistre une croissance de la gratuité des transports ferroviaires et d’une baisse de l'avance, ils devraient être M. Theodore Momo, qui moyenne annuelle de 10,5 % sur la période 2004-2018, coûts de la logistique d’exportation. La nouvelle stratégie mais qui demeure vulnérable. Il était essentiel de de parcs industriels mise en place par le gouvernement prêts à toute éventualité préside le All Liberian Party sauvegarder ces gains, d’éviter les destructions envisage la création de centres manufacturiers voués à la dont le déclanchement (ALP), évoluera dans le même d’emplois et de garantir la survie des entreprises. production d’équipements de protection individuelle pour d’une épidémie ou d’autres sens, rejetant avec énergie la les marchés domestiques ou étrangers. calamités naturelles ou dues proposition du report des Ainsi, plutôt que de mettre en place un confinement national comme l’on fait la plupart des autres L’Éthiopie continue de mobiliser ses ressources nationales à l’homme. élections sénatoriales de mi- gouvernements, y compris en Afrique, l’Éthiopie a pris, et d’encourager les initiatives bénévoles pour faire face à Me Gould a en outre mandat.Mais, quant au dès janvier, bien avant que ne réagissent, le plus l’urgence de santé publique, le gouvernement assurant accusé la NEC de n'avoir pas président de la Coalition pour souvent, les pays développés, d’autres mesures l’étroite coordination des agences fédérales à tous les i m p l i q u é l e s p a r t i s le changement démocratique essentielles. Puis le gouvernement a fait monter sa niveaux. Et si la réponse publique à la pandémie demeure réponse en puissance à la mi-mars, lorsque le premier un chantier inachevé, les succès obtenus jusqu’à présent politiques dans ses activités a u p o u v o i r ( C D C ) , cas de Covid-19 a été déclaré dans le pays, et a proclamé illustrent ce que peuvent réussir les pays africains malgré dont le nettoyage de la liste MulbahMorlu, il a déclaré que l’état d’urgence le 8 avril, encourageant durant la crise le resserrement de leurs moyens. électorale, entre autres. le CDC est prêt et préparé à la poursuite de la production et des autres activités Une accusation qu’a tout toute date pourvu que ça soit économiques, réduisant ainsi considérablement la Avant toute chose, les gouvernements africains doivent d e s u i t e r é f u t é e l a en 2020, pas au-delà. pression sur les groupes sociaux vulnérables et sur le comprendre qu’ils font face non seulement à une urgence secteur informel. de santé publique, mais aussi à une crise multidimensionnelle, avec des conséquences sur le long Côte d’Ivoire: le rapport enquête sur le charnier Jusqu’à présent, les résultats sont là, bien que nous terme. Les mesures habituellement prescrites ne craignions que le pire soit encore devant nous. Le 26 fonctionneront donc pas. Pour surmonter la crise, il faudra mai, l’Éthiopie n’avait déclaré que 701 cas et six morts, mobiliser des réponses publiques locales et nationales, qui de Yopougon sous Gbagbo. Le RDR( RHDP) cité sur une population de 109 millions d’habitants. Cela tiendront compte du contexte spécifique à chaque pays, Il est courant d’entendre les gourou du Restaurant, pour représente un taux de contamination de 0,8 % parmi la sans négliger les actions régionales et internationales gens dire que, si pendant ou déstabiliser son pouvoir ? population testée, dont 80 % sont constitués de unifiées. personnes âgées de vingt-quatre à quarante-quatre ans. après ton passage à la tête On me dira que son fidèle Deuxièmement, le gouvernement éthiopien s’est d’une structure ou d’un État, lieutenant Blé Goudé entretenait La rapidité de la réaction des pouvoirs publics a été beaucoup appuyé sur la mobilisation des collectivités les gens continuent toujours de des jeunes patriotes et que ces déterminante. Dès janvier, les passagers de l’aéroport locales et sur les campagnes de sensibilisation, qui se sont parler en bien de ton derniers ont assassiné de international d’Addis-Abéba, la plus grande plateforme avérées efficaces et peu coûteuses. Il a également été p r é d é c e s s e u r e t q u ’ i l s nombreux militants de la Case. du trafic aérien en Afrique de l’Est, ont été soumis à des soutenu par l’infrastructure publique de soins de santé regrettent son passage, c’est Mais la question qu’on pourrait se protocoles de dépistage très stricts. Le ministère de la primaires, fondée sur la prévention et sur le programme que malgré tous tes efforts, tu poser est la suivante. Santé et les institutions régionales et locales ont mené d’expansion des services de soins de santé et de n’as pas réussi à être à sa S’il n’y avait pas eu rébellion , conjointement une campagne de dépistage maison par vulgarisation sanitaire, construit au cours des vingt hauteur. soutenue et encouragée par la maison, qui a concerné plus de 11 millions de foyers, dernières années. regroupant plus de 40 millions de personnes, dans la Malgré tous tes efforts, tu Case et ses dirigeants, les jeunes capitale et dans les provinces. Les capacités de tests Troisièmement, le gouvernement s’est montré capable n’as pas réussi à effacer ses patriotes auraient-ils existé ? Je diagnostics sont parties de zéro au début du mois de d’une réponse cohérente en renforçant la coordination des traces. Ça voudrait clairement dirai non. Il faut donc conclure mars, pour atteindre en mai 5 000 tests quotidiens, bien agences publiques à différents niveaux. Il a par ailleurs agi dire que tu as échoué à faire que le charnier de Yopougon,les qu’il s’agisse toujours d’un des principaux défis de concert avec le secteur privé afin de trouver des mieux que ton prédécesseur. escadrons de la mort et les jeunes auxquels nous sommes confrontés. solutions réalisables au moment où les acheteurs et les En faisant allusion à ces patriotes sont la conséquence des marques mondiales abandonnaient leurs fournisseurs des propos actions de déstabilisation de la La prise de conscience de la population et son éducation pays en développement. ,je pense à ces nombreux Case vis à vis de son pouvoir. aux bonnes pratiques ont joué un rôle central dans les admirateurs d’hier du gourou On pourrait donc dire que efforts déployés par le gouvernement. Le Premier Quatrièmement, les pays d’Afrique, aux ressources ministre consacre au Covid-19 des allocutions limitées, ne peuvent fournir à tous les groupes ni à toutes du Restaurant que nous étions Laurent Gbagbo était en légitime régulières, tandis que le ministre de la Santé tient un les entreprises un soutien public ou bénévole. Les ,qui regrettons aujourd’hui le défense face aux actions de point de presse quotidien. Partie prenante d’une gouvernements doivent faire des choix et cibler les passage de Laurent Gbagbo à la déstabilisation avérées de son campagne de communication concertée afin de toucher entreprises qui bénéficieront des faibles moyens publics tête du pays. LE Woody de pouvoir. Il n’a donc fait que de chaque citoyen, le service public national des en conditionnant l’aide à des critères de performance, afin Mama n’a certes pas été un trouver des moyens,certes pas télécommunications, Ethio Telecom, a utilisé les d’inciter à la poursuite des objectifs sociaux essentiels dirigeant parfait. Il n’a pas été catholiques,pour défendre son sonneries de téléphones portables pour rappeler aux comme le maintien dans l’emploi. Apprendre ce qui un ange. Mais, il a été un régime. gens l’importance des mesures d’hygiène comme le fonctionne et ce qui ne fonctionne pas a été, à cet égard, dirigeant humain. Il a été un Gbagbo mieux que le gourou du lavage des mains, la distanciation physique et le port du un catalyseur essentiel des mesures décidées par dirigeant avec la main sur le restaurant masque. Cet outil a eu des effets positifs. l’Éthiopie. cœur. Nous l’avons combattu. Nous En outre, depuis le mois de février, les autorités Il est enfin trop tôt pour juger la réponse à la pandémie C’est vrai que sous lui nous avons même applaudi sa capture éthiopiennes ont mis en place une réglementation telle que l’ont organisée l’Éthiopie et d’autres pays avons connu le charnier de et son transfèrement à la CPI. stricte de traçage, d’isolement, de quarantaine d’Afrique, car les gouvernements concernés doivent Yopougon. Mais ce charnier Nous avions naïvement cru obligatoire et de traitement. Les pouvoirs publics ont encore faire monter en puissance les dispositifs mis en n’était-il pas la conséquence de ,qu’avec le gourou du Restaurant transformé des résidences universitaires publiques de place pour affronter l’inévitable stade de la « poussée » de la protestation de sa victoire que nous avons contribué à faire façon à augmenter les capacités des centres de la crise. Mais on peut déjà en tirer une leçon : les stratégies par les gens de la Case ? venir au pouvoir,la Côte d’Ivoire quarantaine à plus de 50 000 lits ; ils ont aussi mis en adoptées par les gouvernements africains pour lutter C’est vrai que sous lui nous deviendrait un pays véritablement place des centres d’isolement supplémentaires d’une contre le Covid-19 doivent être l’expression du contexte avons connu les escadrons de la démocratique. Nous avions capacité totale de 15 000 lits et créé des centres de local et de la nature évolutive de la pandémie, compte traitement d’une capacité de 5 000 lits. Ils ont par tenu tant des moyens réduits dont ils disposent que de la mort. Mais l’existence de ces naïvement cru qu’avec le gourou ailleurs souscrit à des contrats d’assurance-vie pour les faible collaboration internationale. escadrons de la mort n’était- du Restaurant au pouvoir,il n’y personnels de santé, qui sont en première ligne. elle pas la rébellion que nous a u r a i t p l u s d ’ e x c l u s i o n avons déclenchée, avec la d’opposants farouches à la course bénédiction et le soutien du au pouvoir. Copyright: Project Syndicate, 2020. www.project-syndicate.org THURSDAY JUNE 04 2020 www .thenewdawnliberia.com NEW DA WN 10 More headline news More headline news Court nullifies travel ban GSM companies battle Starts from back page business strategy employed by While still collecting the against Tolbert Nyenswah Celcom to increase its floor charge Orange Liberia By Winston W. Parley against Mr. Nyenswah. conducted by the Assets customers in order to attract took the Government to court he Criminal Court However, Mr. Nyenswah’s Recovery Team constituted by potential buyers like Orange. refusing to pay the surcharge. “C” in Monrovia has lawyer Atty. Norris Tweah, President George Manneh The three days free calls The Government of Liberia has Tdeclared as null and through a motion filed before Weah for the recovery of having lasted for years, thus won the case in the lower court void, a writ of Ne Exeat the court on 12 May 2020, assets, wealth of the country. Celcom’s customers definitely from which Orange Liberia Republica earlier issued by expressed shock at the request The State insisted that increased, and Celcom sold to have appealed to the full t h e v e r y c o u r t o n for travel ban against his client d u r i n g a n y c r i m i n a l Orange Liberia. Among other bench of the Supreme Court of government’s request to when there is no case pending investigation, the defendants things, the three days free call Liberia. prevent former National before the court or any other or the accused will not be prompted unfair competition However, having challenged Public Health Institute of courts in Liberia against subject to any arrest and instability between the LTA Order which imposes Liberia (NPHIL) Director Nyenswah for a crime. depending on the nature of Celcom (and later Orange floor charge and surcharge and the crime charged. Liberia) and Lonestar Cell in the face of its appeal, yet In the Tolbert Nyenswah MTN. As the result, LTA as the Orange continues to comply case, the State said the Asset regulator issued the Order with the very Order ending the R e c o v e r y Te a m w a s with the aim to achieve three days free call and c o n d u c t i n g i t s i n i t i a l stability, coordination, and c o l l e c t i n g s u r c h a r g e , investigation and in the efficiency in the sector. especially the portion that process of getting all parties When Orange Liberia took benefits it, and burdens the involved on the alleged over Celcom, and with its sole Liberian people or their embezzlement of funds, Mr. interest to maximize profit, it government. Legal pundits Nyenswah left the country did not like the three days free have also informed this paper before the Ne Exeat Republica call because Orange Liberia that Orange has circumvented was issued. The State felt it could make more its appeal by complying with therefore prayed the court to eliminating the three days free the lower court judgement deny the defense’s motion. call. The Government too pending its appeal. But ruling on Wednesday, welcomed the idea likely Whilst the appeal is Judge Yamie Quiqui Gbeisay because of its interest to pending, LTA had issued an said the fact that Tolbert collect revenue on paid calls, invoice to Orange Liberia and Nyenswah had left the country unlike free calls. Since there Lonestar MTN to pay the at the time of the service of were no conflict of interests regulatory fees due the the writ of Ne Exeat between the GSM companies government in keeping the Republica, the writ becomes on the one hand and the Order, since they are already Tolbert Nyenswah moot or void without any legal Government on the other complying with the Order and effect. hand, the LTA issued the Order thus the judgment of the court “The said writ is therefore which charges a floor price and below. surcharge in consultation with Orange has resisted and fled General Tolbert Nyenswah Atty. Tweah had therefore hereby ordered set aside and all stakeholders. Surprisingly, to the Chamber Justice to from leaving Liberia. requested the court to quash dismissed and that since the having collected eliminated make a determination on the Mr. Nyenswah departed the writ of Ne Exeat Republica perimeter of the writ not the free call and collected matter, but Justice Wolokollie the country on 18 October because it had caused his client being to prevent Mr. Tolbert revenue from the floor price as declined to entertain the 2019 for the United States, a serious reputational damage Nyensawah from returning to the LTA Order, Orange matter because the matter is the same day Montserrado to his character. Liberia at any time, Mr. continues to refuse to pay the presently before the full bench County Attorney Cllr. Edwin K. In resistance to Atty. Tweah’s Tolbert Nyenswah is hereby s u r c h a r g e f e e t o t h e and one justice cannot act, Martin requested Criminal motion, the prosecution on 1 declared free and he is at Government of Liberia as however, she admonished the Court “C” presided over at June contended that the Ne liberty to return to Liberia at provided for in the same Order. parties to pursue the appeal. the time by Judge A. Blamo Exeat Republica filed by the any time,” Judge Gbeisay Dixon, for the writ of Ne State was predicated upon rules. Exeat Republica to be issued criminal investigation being Read the Cont’d from page 6 NewDawn everyday Information Minister & the increase here, but the Female Journalist Association journalist and facilitator, coronavirus outbreak has of Liberia for initiating a Maureen Sieh, notes that Advertise with us! exposed women to more training for journalists on women constitute 22 percent domestic violence, saying SGBV, which will contribute of newsroom staff in Liberia, that women are staying home positively in the fight against pointing out that low and they are exposed more to gender violence. representation of women in violence by their male UN Women Programme the news room influences the No foreign vehicle partners. Analyst, Dhogba G. Mabande way the media reports on Mr. Kasper assures that the says her organization remains women issues. Cont’d from page 6 European Union will continue focus on eliminating all forms of She explains that when the virus. during the administration ex- to work with FEJAL and other violence against women and reporters fail to speak to The Liberia Immigration President Ellen Johnson partners in tackling violence girls in the public and private women experts and leaders, Service (LIS), formerly the Sirleaf, when he served as against women and girls, but spheres, including trafficking, t h e y r i s k l e a v i n g o u t Bureau of Immigration & Deputy Commissioner for stresses the need for more sexual and other types of perspectives relevant to a Naturalization (BIN) is charged O p e r a t i o n s , 2 5 I v o r i a n reporting of cases, noting exploitation as well as harmful huge portion of society and with the primary responsibility nationals who were involved in there are more cases than are practices such as early and miss out on new and to implement and enforce the illegal activities were turned being reported. forced marriage and female interesting stories that Alien and Nationality Law of over to the Ivorian authorities. In response, the President genital mutilation, amongst otherwise may not surface. Liberia. Besides, LIS is also At the same time he notes of the Press Union of Liberia others. M a u r e e n a l s o u r g e s governed by the Constitution that since the COVID-19 Charles Coffey, hails the Veteran Liberian female reporters to provide sex of Liberia, the ECOWAS outbreak in Liberia, the LIS has disaggregated data whenever Protocols on Free Movements received two batches of they report statistics of of persons, goods and services deportees from the United COVID-19, and not to rush in w i t h i n t h e s u b - r e g i o n , States for various crimes, writing stories about rape international conventions and involving six (6) and eight (8) until the facts are gathered, l a w s , a m o n g o t h e r Liberians, respectively, while avoiding stigmatization instruments. bringing the total to 14. - of rape survivors. -Editing by Asked whether Liberia has Editing by Jonathan Browne Jonathan Browne deported foreigners, he recalls THURSDAY JUNE 04 2020 www .thenewdawnliberia.com NEW DA WN 11 Togba and Matthew Jaye to give due process to the case No intention to expel Dillon during the investigation and to By E. J. Nathaniel Daygbor County Senator and has no report to plenary within 16 & Ethel A. Tweh place in the Senate. It is calendar days. he Liberian Senate honorable to disclose fully and Members of the leadership appears to have criminal to disclose partially.” that signed for the case to be Tsomersaulted on Responding to an inquiry investigated are Senators Dan plans to investigate and from Dillon whether the Morias of Maryland County, probably expel Montesrrado leadership of the senate Peter Coleman of Grand Kru County Senator Abraham especially, Pro-Tempore Chie County, Varney Sherman of Darius Dillon of the opposition has malice against him, Chie Grand Cape Mount County, Liberty Party for recently responded that the leadership Morris Saytumah of Bomi describing that body as at the Capitol is far from such County, Saah Joseph of “ r o t t e n , u s e l e s s a n d practice and he (Chie) has Montserrado County and Albert spineless.” been a personal friend of T. Chie of Grand Kru County. Senators up Capitol Hill Dillon. Senators Armah Jallah of were engaged in a heated He narrates that prior to the Gbarpolu County and Nyonblee argument Wednesday, 3 June election of Dillon to the Kangar - Lawrence of Grand when a report from the senate, he (Chie) paid Dillon Bassa County abstained, while Senate’s leadership was from his personal pocket for Senators Thomas Grupee and brought on the floor. s e r v i c e s r e n d e r e d a n d Gbleh-bo Brown were absent But Senate President Pro- personally contributed to during the voting process. Tempore Albert Chie says paying pool workers of Dillon During the debate of the s p e c u l a t i o n s t h a t t h e during the 2019 senatorial by- leadership’s report, Bomi leadership and its full election that brought Dillon to County Senator Sando Johnson membership are considering recast national budget, Pro- bribe. He wants Dillon to the Capitol as lawmaker. said the Senate has embarked to suspend or expel Senator Tempore Chie dismissed plan provide proof. Adding his voice to the on a useless venture to silence Dillon is far from reality and for expulsion. He says instead, Tengbeh recalled that debate, Maryland County a critical voice. the making of people who what the leadership has done is S e n a t o r D i l l o n h a d Senator H. Dan Morais counters According to Sen. Johnson, want to create unnecessary to forward the matter to “deceptively” told the public that those arguing that the any attempt to expel Dillon tension in the country. plenary for proper deliberation that he received an amount of leadership was proceeding from the Senate will bring the Speaking Wednesday, and advice. US$ 6,500.00 as operational w r o n g l y a n d t h a t t h e Senate to public ridicule, during debate over a recent On Wednesday, May 20, funds when the actual amount communication should have saying the leadership of the communication from Lofa 2020, Senator Tengbeh wrote, was US$8,000. been signed by two- thirds of Senate ignored the reality of County Senator George alleging that Senator Dillon Though the entire senate sitting senators are dead the case because they have Tengbeh to plenary, asking for accused all Senators who had kept the information wrong. personal issues with Senator Dillon to be investigated for affixed their signatures to the private until Senator Dillon According to him, the Dillon. allegedly insulting fellow Senate resolution, concurring went public, the Lofa Senator leadership has to look into the Former Senate Pro - senators and accusing them of w i t h t h e H o u s e o f notes in his communication: matter and see the merit tempore Armah Jallah urges receiving US$17,000 each for Representatives in the passage “This is gross dishonesty on before sending it for concrete that the Senate should not rush the passage of the COVID-19 of the COVID-19 of receiving the part of the Montserrado action at which time the to serve justice at the expense question of two-third majority of peace, noting that as far as comes in. he is concerned, no complaint He cites an example that is on the Senate’s floor against when Montserrado County Senator Dillon. RIA to resume commercial flights But the chair of the Senate’s S e n a t o r S a a h J o s e p h uthorities at the Wednesday. has drafted a mandatory complained Grand Bassa Judiciary Committee Cllr. R o b e r t s The meeting according to public health concept for County Senator Nyonblee Varney Sherman suggests that AInternational Airport t h e L A A p o s t , w a s a travelers. Karnga Lawrence of physical when a complaint is laid by one (RIA) and Health officials here brainstorming session with The draft document bears assault, the leadership took Senator against a colleague, have become brainstorming health officials on protocols for a technology aided screening, seized of the matter and t h a t m a t t e r m u s t b e over the possible reopening of travelers testing and quarantine following engagement with investigated. t h e c o u n t r y ’ s o n l y The talksalso aim at procedure. the both parties, the matter He notes that the Senate is international airport to instituting public health LAA says its drafted public was resolved amicably. not discussing the suspension Meanwhile, following tense or expulsion of Senator Dillon debate, presiding officer, Vice but rather investigating the President Jewel Howard Taylor complaint filed against him by took a motion from Senator Senator Tengbeh. Saah Joseph that the matter be However, Senators Oscar brought back on the floor of Cooper, Nyonblee Kangar - the senate next Wednesday. Lawrence, Stephen Zargo, The leadership of the Armah Zulu Jallah, Sando senate set up a three - man Johnson, Daniel Naathn, committee chaired by Senator Abraham Darius Dillon, Varney G. Sherman to Commany B. Wesseh are investigate a complaint filed against the investigation of a g a i n s t o p p o s i t i o n Senator Dillon. Montserrado County Sen. According to them, the Abraham Darius Dillon by his leadership is in violation of the c o l l e a g u e S e n . G e o r g e Senate’s standing rules, noting Tengbeh of Lofa County. that the body is proceeding The Senate’s leadership wrongly like they did with the announced the probe against case of impeached Associate Mr. Dillon after he described Justice Kabineh M. Ja’neh. Ja’neh was removed from Photos credit: LAA the Senate as rotten, spineless and useless in expressing his the Supreme Court bench frustration at his colleagues’ following a controversial impeachment process. resume commercial flights. protocols at the airport. health concept paper is in passage of the recast budget Senator Dillon expresses L i b e r i a n A i r p o r t RIA and other Liberian keeping with an advisory from w i t h o u t d e b a t i n g i t , d i s a p p o i n t m e n t i n h i s Authorities (LAA) posted airports closed to commercial t h e A i r p o r t C o u n c i l suggesting that they allegedly godfather Sen. Sherman for photographs of an interaction airliners in March of this year, in International (ACI) and the took bribes. knowing the law and ill - between health officials and the wake of the COVID 19 National Public Health In the Senate leadership’s advising the leadership of the airport management on the pandemic. Institute of Liberia (NPHIL) report, it mandated Senators Liberian Senate. airport’s Facebook page on But LAA Management says it Varney Sherman, Henrique CMYK eThew French Version Inside N TRULDYa INDEPENDENTwn VOL. 10 NO. 91 THURSDAY, JUNE 04, 2020 PRICE LD$40.00 With Emmanuel B. Juduh GT Bank ordered to pay US$250,000 ordered to pay the amount of US$250,000.00 (Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars) as general damages for the injuries, humiliation, emotional distress, and mental anguish suffered by plaintiff …,” Judge Scheaplor R. Dunbar ruled Wednesday, 3 June. Mr. Freeman filed the case following an incident on 28 August 2018 which occurred during one of the bank’s weekly meetings between the managing director and heads of departments. Freeman who was then the head of Public Sector Group at the bank, complained that he was assaulted on his face by his boss Mr. Bejide with a big Former employee Sie Edward Freeman calculator at the meeting as a way of expressing agitation at By Winston W. Parley emotional distress and mental the complainant for making onrovia’s Civil Law anguish he suffered following a recommendations that the Court “B” has row with the bank’s former accused claimed were not in Mordered private Managing Director Ayodeji the bank’s best interest. banking entity Guaranty Trust Bejide. According to Freeman, B a n k L i b e r i a t o p a y “... 1st defendant (Guaranty while he bled and tears rolled US$250,000 to its former Trust Bank) is adjudged liable to down his eyes, Bejide showed e m p l o y e e S i e E d w a r d plaintiff (Freeman) for the no remorse for his action, Freeman as general damages injuries he sustained on August for the injuries, humiliation, 28, 2018. 1st defendant is CONT’D ON PAGE 11

Order was to abort the famous three days free-call as GSM companies battle surcharges specifically requested by Orange Liberia and other nother attempt by 2 0 1 8 t h e L i b e r i a stakeholders. Orange Liberia to Telecommunication Authority Orange Liberia and the As u b v e r t t h e (LTA) issued Order 0016-02-25- stakeholders allegedly argued imposition of regulatory 19 imposing floor prices and at the time that it was surcharge fee yield no result. surcharges on one-net voice necessary to stop the three About a week ago Orange calls and data. Before issuing days free call because they Liberia had filed a Petition for the Order, the LTA got all believed it had no economic a Writ of Prohibition before stakeholders involved and their benefits to their owners. Supreme Court Justice inputs were considered. Our investigation reveals J a m e s e t t a H o w a r d The LTA also conducted that the famous three days free Wollokollie challenging an public consultations to be able call was introduced by Celcom order issued by the regulatory to make informed decisions. prior to Orange acquisition of a u t h o r i t y o f t h e Thereafter, the Order was Celcom through purchase as telecommunication sector in finalized and took effect. reported. It was likely a Liberia. This paper has learned that It can be recalled that in one major effect of the LTA CONT’D ON PAGE 11 The NewDawn Press We Offer The Following Printing Services: - Newspapers, Magazines 2 colors Heidelberg printing machines - Flyers, Posters, Calendars - Brochures, Letterhead - Receipts, Invoices - Souvenirs, Gifts - Designs, etc...

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