Lofa County Resilience Network Working Group

Deputy Agriculture Minister and Liberia’s leading Animal Specialist, Hon. Seklau E. Wiles, makes full disclosure at the Ministry of Information regular press conference  Photo Credit: MICAT Staff

micatliberia.com - Ministry of Information - Government of Liberia - by Decontee M. Wesseh - July 16, 2015

MONROVIA, July 16 (LINA) – The Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) will early August begin the vaccination of goats and sheep against the animal disease Peste des petit ruminant (PPR) in areas that have not been exposed to the virus.

The vaccination campaign comes against the backdrop of the deaths of about 2,000 goats and sheep, mainly in Nimba and Lofa Counties, according to reports reaching the Ministry of Agriculture.

Making the disclosure Thursday at the Ministry of Information press conference, Deputy Agriculture Minister and Liberia’s leading Animal Specialist, Seklau E. Wiles, said the massive death report was given by community dwellers.

She noted that they informed the ministry that illegal animal movement between the neighboring Guinea and the border town of Kinnor in Nimba County was the source of the outbreak, which led to the deaths of 485 goats in that town.

inprofiledaily.com - by mulbah - June 23, 2015

Reports from Lofa County say citizens and residents are living in fears due to the outbreak of an unknown disease that has killed more than 800 cattle so far.

According to the reports, the cattle, including goats and sheep are said to have died in seven towns and villages in Quadu-Gboni and Voinjama Districts.

Some of the affected town and villages so far include: Barkedu, Marvie Konnedu, Betijema and Sarkonnedu.
The citizens are alarming that the unknown disease could also affect human beings and spread to other parts of the county as well as Liberia if nothing is done urgently to fight it.

Meanwhile, the Public Health Supervisor for Lofa County Health Team, William Sherman, has warned citizens of the county and Liberia as a whole against buying meat from goats, sheep and other domestic animals since the cause of the cattle's death is still unknown.

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Liberia: Two-Hour School in Lofa County - Students in Class 8-10am

allafrica.com - By Mae Azango - June 10, 2015

Children in Gorlu, Salayea District Lofa County, are only in school two hours a day, or not in school at all. The reason? Their teachers are either running behind their salaries, or volunteer teachers are trying to get their names on the government's payroll. . . .

. . . The situation of teachers leaving the classrooms and running behind salaries, and lack of qualified teachers to teach the children in rural Liberia, is not only restricted to Lofa County, but nearly all of the fifteen counties in Liberia. With the situation becoming increasingly alarming and dreadful, the government has also witnessed aggrieved health workers also on the streets demanding the Ebola risk benefits as well.

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