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Orange Liberia Launches Lorpu AI: Voice-Powered, Data-Free, Built for all Liberians

Orange Liberia has launched the country’s first AI assistant accessible by voice call and SMS without a smartphone or mobile data — a genuinely significant technical achievement in a low-connectivity economy, and one whose real impact will be determined not by the launch event but by how many Liberians outside Monrovia actually use it in […]

Key takeaways:
✅ The launch was attended by representatives from the Liberia Telecommunications Authority and the Monrovia Consolidated School System.
✅ Users dial 2026 or text “LAD” to subscribe and interact with the assistant immediately.
✅ The technical proposition is specific and relevant to Liberia’s connectivity reality.

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Orange Liberia Launches Lorpu AI: Voice-Powered, Data-Free, Built for all Liberians Orange Liberia has launched the country’s first AI assistant accessible by voice call and SMS without a smartphone or mobile data — a genuinely significant technical achievement in a low-connectivity economy, and one whose real impact will be determined not by the launch event bu

Liberia’s Climate-Smart MSME Push Is Reaching the Counties

Liberia’s EPA and UNIDO are moving a climate-smart enterprise program through four county stops — telling small businesses that green economy opportunities are real and accessible, while the structural gaps in value chains, cold-chain infrastructure, and climate finance access that prevent most Liberian MSMEs from capitalizing on those opportunities remain largely unaddressed.…

Key takeaways:
✅ The series began in Monrovia, moved through regional hubs, and will conclude with a fourth stop before closing.
✅ The EPA’s decision to take the program to the counties rather than centralize it in Monrovia is deliberate.
✅ UNIDO GROW 2 is the financing and program backbone behind the outreach.

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Liberia’s Climate-Smart MSME Push Is Reaching the Counties Liberia’s EPA and UNIDO are moving a climate-smart enterprise program through four county stops — telling small businesses that green economy opportunities are real and accessible, while the structural gaps in value chains, cold-chain infrastructure, and climate finance access th

📊 Recap: ECOWAS Closes Lomé Workshop With a Gender and Trade Strategy — Now Comes the Hard Part

ECOWAS validated a Gender and Trade Strategy for 2026 to 2030 in Lomé last week — but for Liberian women traders crossing into Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Côte d’Ivoire daily, the obstacles this strategy promises to remove have outlasted every previous regional framework designed to address them. Acting ECOWAS Secretary-General Mua’zu Umaru officially closed the […]

Highlights at a glance:
✅ Twelve ECOWAS member states participated.
✅ Speaking on behalf of Commissioner for Human Development and Social Affairs Professor Fatou Sow Sarr, Mr.
✅ Umaru committed ECOWAS to translating the strategy into concrete actions at border posts — stating explicitly that it must not remain a policy document without…

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