A high-powered Liberian delegation led by Foreign Minister Augustine K. Ngafuan is in Washington, DC to participate in the inaugural session of the partnership dialogue between the governments of the United States and Liberia. The dialogue takes place on Tuesday, May 7. The American side will be led by Wendy Sherman, Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs.

Today, we celebrate the acquittal and freedom of journalist Darlington Pelenah. The unanimous verdict of NOT GUILTY reached on May 2, 2013validates what we have known and declared all along: that Darlington Pelenah is completely innocent of the crimes of armed robbery and criminal conspiracy for which he was wrongfully charged, indicted, detained, and prosecuted by the Liberia National Police and its parent body, the Ministry of Justice.  He is a long-serving professional journalist who whole-heartedly respects, upholds and cherishes his individual, professional and family values.