MONROVIA, LIBERIA —
Severe flooding in Liberia has led a group of senators to propose relocating the capital city away from overcrowded and poorly managed Monrovia, a suggestion met with a mixture of enthusiasm and hesitancy in the West African country.

Flash floods triggered by torrential rains between the end of June and early July left nearly 50,000 Liberians in urgent need, the national disaster management agency said.

The flood-prone capital was particularly badly hit, owing in part to overpopulation, a poor sewage system, and a lack of building regulation.

Meeting to discuss the persistent flooding problem, a senate joint committee in early July suggested establishing a new city to replace Monrovia.

"It's a good idea because our current capital city is a mess," said Chris Kpewudu, a young motorbike driver in the capital.

"There is garbage all over the city and also when it rains, there is flooding everywhere, but with a new city, it will be well laid out and our capital city could look like, or more than, Abuja," he added.

Nigeria's Abuja is one of a handful of planned capital cities on the African continent.

Tanzania's capital Dodoma and Yamoussoukro in Ivory Coast were also established as administrative capitals towards the end of the 20th century, with all three cities occupying geographically central positions in their respective countries.

Monrovia is home to 1.5 million people and lies on the Atlantic coast of Liberia, one of the poorest countries in the world.

The city is the economic, political, and cultural hub of the country, with the Freeport of Monrovia providing a gateway for Liberian exports including iron ore, rubber, and timber to reach the United States and Europe.

But the city's poorly functioning infrastructure can barely keep up with its ever-expanding population.

The Ministry of Public Works told AFP it was carefully reviewing the proposal, adding that the the plan did not yet include an exact location for the move, and that any decision would come down to economic viability.

"Having a new city is capital-intensive," said T. T. Benjamin Myers, the ministry's communications director.

"As a country, our national budget is still around $600 million... so having a new city will require a lot of technical, financial, and economic factors to be seriously considered," he added.
https://www.voanews.com/a/flooding-drives-liberia-to-mull-capital-city-move/7707654.html

Bodyguard of S Leone's ex-leader jailed over failed coup

Basillioh Rukanga
BBC News
Tuesday July 23 , 2024
A former bodyguard of Sierra Leone's ex-President Ernest Bai Koroma has been found guilty of treason and sentenced alongside 10 others over a failed coup last year.
Amadu Koita Makalo, who is also a former soldier, was sentenced to 182 years in prison on charges of treason, murder and shooting with intent to murder.
The charges followed attacks by gunmen on a military barracks and prisons last November.
It came months after a disputed election which saw President Julius Maada Bio narrowly re-elected for a second term.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnd08rpwp2go

FatherCHRISTMAS:

I would love to live in Canada or Australia

Floky215:



Islamist would always wail...!!
Unfortunately there is nothing you and and your fellow demented Islamic thugs can do about it...!!

Your dream of taken over the west is nothing but a mirage...!!!

Your wailing is music to my ear, so keep wailing louder...!!!

'Serial killer' arrested after bodies found in Kenya dump
24 minutes ago
By Basillioh Rukanga & Ian Wafula,
BBC News, Nairobi

Kenyan police have arrested a man who they have described as a “serial killer” suspected to have been behind the gruesome murder of nine women whose mutilated bodies were found in a disused quarry used as a rubbish dump.
Police say Jomaisi Khalisia, 33, confessed to having killed 42 women since 2022, including his own wife.
The suspect was arrested at a bar early on Monday morning as he was watching the Euro final.
There has been shock and outrage in Kenya since the first of the dismembered bodies were found on Friday at the Mukuru quarry in the capital, Nairobi.

“[He] confessed to have lured, killed and disposed of 42 female bodies at the dumping site, all murdered between 2022 and as recent as Thursday," said Mohamed Amin, head of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI).
He said that after his arrest, the suspect led police officers to his house, about 100m (yards) from the crime scene.
Mr Amin said they had found crucial evidence in the suspect's house, including 10 phones, a laptop, identity cards and personal female clothing.
They also found a machete they "believed was being used to dismember the victims", and nine sacks like the ones used to dispose of the bodies.
Since Friday, police have cordoned off the dumpsite where the bodies were found in various stages of decomposition.
The victims were aged between 18 and 30 and were all killed in the same way, according to the police.
Police say they are still interrogating the suspect to establish the motive for the killings and he will be arraigned in court on Tuesday.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cql8e90gggno

Hanndye:

By the time APC is gone, may you be gone as well.

Hanndye:
May the whole of the evil that befell Nigeria in the name of APC just disappear from Nigeria.

Watcharena:
what has the black ministers done for you in Nigeria?

KLEINBASS:
He is not the only white minister or the first. We have all races and tribes in the cabinet. We are South Africans before tribe or race.

Floky215:



Trump is the next president of the United State of America know that and have peace...!!

A thousand Biden plus Obama and Hillary can't beat trump as it stand now all thanks to you islamist...!!!

babajero:
Everything you wrote have Islam written all over it.

There is no difference between the acts of those so called terrorists (radical Muslims) and that of muhammed who started the Islamic cult.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille told the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday that recently deployed Kenyan police will be crucial to helping control the country’s gangs and moving toward democratic elections — and he called feedback from their initial days in the capital “extremely, extremely positive.”

He said his government will focus on addressing gang violence and food insecurity, ensuring free elections through constitutional and political reform, and rebuilding public trust in the police.


On June 25, the initial contingent of 200 Kenyan police arrived in Port-au-Prince. Kenya has pledged 1,000 police to the international police force and Conille said the next contingent will be arriving “very soon.” They will later be joined by police from the Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Benin, Chad and Jamaica in the force that will total 2,500 personnel.

Haiti asked for an international force to combat gangs in 2022, and U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres appealed for months for a country to lead the force before the Kenyans came forward.

The gangs have grown in power since the July 7, 2021, assassination of President Jovenel Moïse and are now estimated to control up to 80% of the capital. The surge in killings, rapes and kidnappings has led to a violent uprising by civilian vigilante groups.

Conille, a former U.N. development specialist, took up his post as prime minister last month after being voted in by a transitional council.

With the help of the international police force, Conille is tasked with stabilizing the country in preparation for democratic elections in February 2026.

“More than ever Haiti must mobilize all the necessary and available resources to make this transition the last one, a transition that could set it on the path toward peace, security and sustainable development,” Conille told the council.

babajero:
Please is there any difference between the Muslims in Palestine and the ones in Nigeria? There is always same things in common. Violence, lies and propaganda.