Op-ed 

Paris attacks: European leaders link terror threats to immigration

A Syrian passport found near the body of one of those responsible for the terror attacks in Paris belonged to someone allegedly posing as one of the hundreds of thousands of refugees entering Greece from Turkey in recent months, the police ministry in Athens said. The news came after searches and arrests were made in the main Muslim quarter of Brussels late on Saturday, and there was also the suggestion from Bavarian authorities that a Montenegrin arrested nine days ago with a car laden with weaponry may also have been…

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News 

Liberia Says It Is Ready For United Nations Departure

The Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Cllr. Benedict F. Sannoh, has reaffirmed government’s commitment to maintaining peace and stability in the wake of United Nations Mission in Liberia’s (UNMIL) drawdown by next year, adding, “We are ready to take over the mantle of the security sector as UNMIL operations come to an end by June, 2016.” Minister Sannoh made the statement recently at the Ministry of Information, Culture Affairs and Tourism regular press briefing, held in Monrovia. He said as part of government’s preparations, the security sector is being…

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Op-ed 

PPCC COMPLAINS OF CENTRAL BANK NON-COMPLIANT POSTURE

The Editor, Why is the Central Bank afraid of a real audit? (Re “PPCC COMPLAINS OF CENTRAL BANK NON-COMPLIANT POSTURE”) Every time you talk about auditing the Central Bank of Liberia (CBL), Dr. Mills Jones, the CBL Governor, gives you the middle finger, and declare that the Bank has already been audited!.. But there’s one big problem, Governor. We’re NOT talking (and he knows it) about a financial audit of CBL’s books, which was done by your external auditors (PricewaterhouseCoopers)! When we talk about auditing the CBL, we’re talking about…

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