Before the war on corruption reaches its finality--or at least before the term of Auditor General John Morlu expires--the attendant rows of the struggle will have exposed stunning contradictions in high and low places in the country. The remolded Liberia auditing office, the General Auditing Commission (GAC) has vowed to make a fundamental break with the past, distancing itself from, and shedding those, obsolete methods and traits which have long compromised the fight for greater transparency and accountability. But it seems such a radical move by the GAC is a thorn in the flesh of not only auditees and fiscal hoodlums, but also an irritation for some sections of the larger public, even including some professed anti-graft elements. The contradiction lifted its head in a recent statement by a civil society actor, and the GAC wasted no time in issuing a lengthy riposte that accentuates its irreversible determination to keep the fight at feet of the forces of corruption in all its forms and shades, as Our Senior Staff Writer reports. 


At the 14th extraordinary session of the Africa Union, Liberia, a founding member of the Organization of African Unity (AOU), now called AU, was shown the beam after she was elected as the third Vice Chair of the organization.
after a devastating earthquake that hit that country. Over two hundred thousand people died in the aftermath of the quake, with millions of dollars worth of properties destroyed. Millions of others are left homeless while scores were left injured. 