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UNICCO ELECTION GUIDELINES

March 7, 2006 - UNICCO Digest

The following shall constitute the UNICCO 2006 electoral activities:
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NICCO's National'Chaplain has Passed Away

November 24, 2005 - UNICCO Digest

Our national Chaplain passed away last night. Mrs. Annie Zeah died this evening around 7:30 PM. The sad death occurred at home. According to old man David zeah, Annie Zeah had just dressed up in her Winter attire for a community outing when she dropped and went into convulsion.
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UNICCO DIGEST NEEDS HELP - AN OPEN LETTER TO UNICCO MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OF NIMBA

March 7, 2005 - UNICCO Digest

UNICCO needs your financial assistance in its strive to update its web page. Any amount donated will be written off on your next year's tax return.
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PARTISANSHIP VERSUS SUB-NATIONALISM: THE DILEMMA OF LIBERIAN ELECTORAL POLITICS.

By Clarence Gono, Jr.

February 16, 2005 - UNICCO Digest

The daily rise of Liberian presidential aspirants is becoming somewhat histrionic or in a way theatrical and a chatty stuff among Liberians in our electoral politics. Scholars of elections, accordingly, regard the choosing of leaders in an organized democratic process by various attentive and inattentive voters as efforts aimed at trying to legitimize powers of contestants, reelected incumbents and challengers if they do manage to harness a require percentage vote count in a given election.
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The Race to Mortgage our Future: "A Catastrophic Tragedy in the Making"

By Stphen O. Adams

February 16, 2005 - The Perspective

This gang of corrupt inviduals is now in overdrive in an attempt to mortgage the future of our Country. They are being facilitated by unscrupulous elements that are using the corrupt interim government counsel to constrict the entire economic lifeline of Liberia.
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Is Nimba County Really Responsible for Liberia's Civil War? - (Letter)

December 30 , 2004 - UNICCO Digest (Letter)

I write in response to Honorable Superintendent Harrison Karnwea's recent assertion apportioning blames for the Liberian civil crisis on Nimba County. Had Harrison Karnwea, as an ordinary citizen of Liberia accused Nimbaians of war-mongering, I would have left the matter die its natural death and not give credence to his putrid declaration.
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Nimba County Responsible?

December 28 , 2004 - UNICCO Digest (Letter)

It was with confusion and disgust that I read the news account of the
Superintendent of Nimba County laying the entire responsibility of the war
in Liberia at the feet of Nimbaians. I was confused because I somehow
thought Mr. Harrison Karnwea was an intelligent and well-rounded person.
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December 26, 2004 - UNICCO Digest

My intension in this dialogue is to broach a new and vibrant page in the area of Liberian foreign policy that has long been sequestered and neglected by both past and present Liberian foreign policy makers at the helm of respective Liberian governments over decades.
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November 30, 2004 - UNICCO Digest

The story of the Presidential mandate theory has never been scribed and it did not begin with Liberians or Liberian political foundation but with, according to an adept writer on political subjects, Robert A. Dahl (Political Science Quarterly, vol.105, 1990), an American President, Andrew Jackson.
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November 26, 2004 - UNICCO Digest

The Liberian political scene could be running amok? This is a discursive and cursory view that is held by many Liberians that I have met and talked to as regards the Liberian Presidential elections.
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Liberians from Mineral-Rich Counties Need a Fair Share of their Natural Resources – A Popular Demand of 21st Century Liberia

By Yini Guva A. Sahn

November 14, 2004 - UNICCO Digest

Who authorized the sale of the iron ore in Buchanan? Who’s benefiting from the proceeds of the sale? Of the total sale, how much went to the citizens of Nimba and Grand Bassa counties? Were the former employees paid? Will the local people in mineral rich counties in Liberia EVER benefit directly from their natural resources?
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Highlights of UNICCO National Assembly Meeting in Chicago

By Yini Guva A. Sahn

September 12, 2004 - UNICCO Digest

Nimba citizens converged on the Windy City, Chicago, on September 3, 2004 for what has become a tradition for UNICCO, one of Africa’s Grand Old Associations in Diaspora, it’s National Assembly Meeting. At the National Assembly meeting, representatives of all UNICCO chapters discuss matters of vital importance.
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Stephen Paye is Freed But Still Needs Help

June 29, 2004 - UNICCO Digest

Please be informed that although we want our brother Stephen Paye to be freed, we have heard soon after posting the previous announcement on this day, that he is not yet totally free of the court ramifications and therefore will have to go through court hearings to vindicate his good name once and for all.
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MIAMEN WOPEA-GONWO DAHNWEIH TEAM PRESENTS PLATFORM

           
Mr. Miamen Z.Z. Wopea - MN         Mr. Gonwo Danweih of Illinois

May 7, 2004 -UNICCO Digest

I am running to become the National Chairman of the United Citizens’ Council to promote unity.
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Minnesota Chapter.

Mr. Frederick Norkeh Joins the Race for National Spokesman

Mr. Frederick B. Norkeh - Spokesman to be?

April 25, 2004 - UNICCO DIGEST

For the past several years I have been an active participant of the United Nimba Citizens Council on local and national levels
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Minnesota chapter elects new leaders

January 9, 2004 - UNICCO Digest

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TWIN CITIES: Liberian deported after admitting to crimes there

October30, 2003 - Pioneer Press, (St. Paul, MN)

A Liberian citizen has been deported from the Twin Cities after admitting that he killed 10 people and raped a woman while supervising a traffic checkpoint where dozens of such crimes took place during the African nation's civil war.
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MODEL DENIES MASSACRE IN BAHN, NIMBA COUNTY

August 27, 2003 - MODEL PRESS RELEASE

MODEL wishes to categorically state that it is unaware of any massacre occurring in Bahn, Nimba County as reported by Benjamin Yeaten.
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unicco Minnesota's position on crimes against humanity in liberia

August 22, 2003

We the citizens of Nimba County, Republic of Liberia, residing in the United States of America, in the State of Minnesota, out of continuous frustration and extreme disappointment over the killing of Liberians and Nimba citizens in particular over the years hereby, resolve to express our concern over these wanton killings and destruction of properties.
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MODEL Vows to Burn Nimba Down, turn it into dust

August 21, 2003

Reports coming from crying citizens in Liberia say
that, with a two-front approach, the LURD and MODEL
rebels are attacking Nimba County, with Nimba between
the two groups. Hundreds of innocent Nimba citizens
have been killed in these attacks, the sources said.
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open letter to national spokesman

July 19, 2003

We received your communication dated June 18, 2003 selecting us to host the UNICCO National Board meeting slated for Labor Day weekend, August 30, 2003. Thank you for your thoughtful selection. However, we would like to draw your attention to two concerns raised by Carolina Chapter.
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Chairman George Duo writes staff of unicco.org

July 17, 2003

Thanks for passing out the information on the condition of my son. He has recovered remarkably well.
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