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Liberia: Agriculture Ministry Disputes Its Budget Line as Cattle Deaths Mount

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Monrovia – Grand Kru County has not had a working cattle herd in a generation. Its old county ranch is mostly memory now — cleared pasture reclaiming itself, pens that haven't...

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Liberia: Commercial Court Orders NOCAL, Finance Ministry Sealed Over US$764,762 Debt; Finance Chief Held...

Willie N. Tokpah -
Monrovia – The Commercial Court for Montserrado County on Wednesday, September 23, ordered the closure and sealing of the National Oil Company of Liberia (NOCAL) and the Ministry of...
News

Liberia: Government, LSEZA Discuss Investment and Job Creation Agenda

Jaheim T. Tumu -
Monrovia - The government is seeking closer collaboration with the Liberia Special Economic Zones Authority (LSEZA) as it continues efforts to attract investment, promote industrial development, and create jobs...
Agric Matters

Liberia: Agriculture Ministry Disputes Its Budget Line as Cattle Deaths Mount

Rodney Sieh -
Monrovia – Grand Kru County has not had a working cattle herd in a generation. Its old county ranch is mostly memory now — cleared pasture reclaiming itself, pens...
Education

Liberia: How a Failed Harvest Locked an Entire Generation Out of School in Bong...

Selma Lomax -
Kpolokplah Public School relied entirely on volunteer teachers since the government never assigned staff, leaving the PTA to fund salaries through farming and charcoal sales. A failed harvest cut...
News

Liberia: Rep. Benson Urges Boakai to Prioritize Rural Montserrado in 2027 Budget

Jaheim T. Tumu -
Legal Issues

Liberia: CDC Prepares to Take Cybercrime Law Fight to Supreme Court After Wrato Release

Willie N. Tokpah -
News

Liberia: Chinese Nationals “Brutalize” Liberian Employee as Victim Alarms Over Selective Justice, Illegal Dismissal

Obediah Johnson -
Economy

Liberia Pitches $1B Revenue Milestone, Mining, Energy and Agriculture Opportunities to U.S. Investors

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News

Head Of Female Lawmakers Craves Pathway For Cordial Relations With Legislative Reporters As Chambers...

Emmanuel Weedee-Conway -
Business

Liberian Contractors Urge Boakai to Expand Access to Public Works

Emmanuel Weedee-Conway -
News

Kemayah Warns Politicized Justice, Eroding Trust Could Threaten Hard-Won Peace

Gerald C Koinyeneh -
News

Liberia: Boakai Launches Third Women, Peace and Security Plan, Pledges Greater Role for Women...

J. H. Webster Clayeh -
Legal Issues

Liberia: Court-Ordered Eviction Forces More Than Me Students Out of Class Amid Heavy Rain

J. H. Webster Clayeh -
News

Congolese Traditional Leader Mfumu Nkusu Nangola Calls for Greater African Unity, Heritage, Cultural Identity...

Jaheim T. Tumu -
News

“We Cannot Create Transparency Where Officials Choose Opacity,” Outgoing U.S. Chargé d’Affaires Warns Liberia

Jaheim T. Tumu -
News

Liberia: Boakai Declares October ‘Good Governance Month,’ Puts Public Institutions Under Integrity Spotlight

Patience M Jones -
Politics
Politics

Liberia: After the Ballot: How William Thompson Is Rebuilding His Political Footprint in Bong District Six

Selma Lomax -
BONG COUNTY — In Liberian politics, an election defeat can sometimes bring an abrupt end to a politician’s visibility. For William Telebo Thompson, however, the period following his unsuccessful 2023 bid...
Politics

Liberia: Three years in, Rep. Wongbe’s Development Record is Challenging Nimba’s Party-driven Politics

Selma Lomax -
NIMBA COUNTY – There is a version of Nimba County politics that has held for a generation. Influence flows through party structures, and party structures...
Politics

Liberia: Senator Snowe Convenes NPP Leaders, Suspended Partisans in Unity Talks

Selma Lomax -
MONROVIA – A private residence in the ELWA community in Paynesville became the setting for a pivotal internal conversation within the National Patriotic Party...

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Editorial
Editorial

West Africa Cannot Afford to Fight Jos Leijdekkers One Border at a Time

Jos Leijdekkers' fingerprints are turning up in port after port, patrol after patrol, from Freetown to Tema to a beach in Liberia — not...
Editorial

A $200 Million Lost Opportunity: Turning Liberia’s natural-resource windfalls into national wealth

THE GOVERNMENT of Liberia recently received a $200 million signature bonus from ArcelorMittal in connection with the extension of its Minerals Development Agreement. Under...
Obituary
Economy
Economy

Liberia Pitches $1B Revenue Milestone, Mining, Energy and Agriculture Opportunities to U.S. Investors

Monrovia — Liberia has stepped up efforts to attract private capital from the United States and other international markets, presenting investment opportunities spanning mining, energy,...
Business

Liberian Contractors Urge Boakai to Expand Access to Public Works

PAYNESVILLE— The Association of Liberian Construction Contractors is calling on President Joseph Nyuma Boakai to intervene in what it describes as the growing exclusion...

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Education
Education

Liberia: How a Failed Harvest Locked an Entire Generation Out of School in Bong County

Kpolokplah Public School relied entirely on volunteer teachers since the government never assigned staff, leaving the PTA to fund salaries through farming and charcoal sales. A failed harvest cut this income,...
Education

Liberia: Jewel Starfish Foundation Beneficiaries Share Life-Changing Stories After 25 Years of Humanitarian Service

Monrovia – The Jewel Starfish Foundation celebrated its silver jubilee in December 2025 and continues to provide educational and other opportunities to young Liberian women...
County News

Liberia: Broken Roofs, Empty Classrooms: Beletanla and Blemeyea Schools Struggle in Bong County

BONG COUNTY – In the villages of District Two, the school day does not always end with the bell. At one school, it can end...
Drugs and Crime
Commentary
Commentary

Professor Joseph S. Johnson at Age 102: Comparing the Enduring Influence of a Teacher, Scholar, and Nation-Builder

Minister of Education Dr. Jarso Maley Jallah: In September 2026, addressing Presidential Scholars, she asked: “Your country has invested in your education. What will...
Commentary

Educating Liberia: The Foundation for National Leadership, Economic Independence, and Social Renewal

“Educating Liberia is not merely an investment in schools; it is an investment in the knowledge, skills, leadership, productivity, civic responsibility, and economic independence...
Sports
Sports

Liberia’s U-17 AFCON Dream Collapses: Coaches, LFA Face Accountability Questions

Christopher C. Walker -
MONROVIA — Liberia’s failure to qualify for the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) U-17 tournament in Senegal has triggered intense debate within the country’s...
Sports

Lone Star Arrives in Kigali Ahead of Crucial Rwanda AFCON Qualifier

Christopher C. Walker -
MONROVIA — Liberia’s national football team, the Lone Star, arrived in Kigali, Rwanda, on Monday, September 21, as preparations intensify for Friday’s opening 2027...

Foreign Relations

Analysis

Liberia: New Charging Rule Confronts a System the U.S. State Department Has Long Flagged as Broken

Analysis
A new order from the Solicitor General requiring prosecutor sign-off before police can charge a suspect lands against a backdrop the U.S. State Department has documented for years: a justice system where arrests often outrun evidence,...

Liberia: A Mystery Vessel, a Prison, and a Warning Nobody Answered

Analysis
MONROVIA — There is a version of this story in which the boat behind the Monrovia Central Prison is nothing more than a stray vessel, pushed toward shore by the tide and forgotten within days. By Rodney...

Liberia’s Opposition Tries Unity Again

Analysis
Three years out from a vote nobody has scheduled yet, Liberia's opposition parties gathered under George Weah's roof to try, for a third time this decade, to do what has never once held: stay together. The...

Elections

War Crime
War Crimes

Liberia: Expert Warns of Security Risks if Legislature Fails...

Summary Transitional justice expert Aaron Weah warns that failure to approve legislation establishing Liberia’s long-delayed War and Economic Crimes Court could create new security risks, particularly among a young generation...
News

Liberia: Dhaliwal Presses Boakai to Recall Legislature for War...

MONROVIA — With Liberia’s long-promised transitional justice agenda still awaiting decisive legislative action, advocate Mme. Marpu Dhaliwal is calling on President Joseph Nyuma Boakai  Sr. to take the unusual step of...

Diaspora

Crime Watch

Human Rights

Liberia: ‘Protect Those Who Defend Rights’: New Research Exposes Mounting Threats to Human Rights Defenders as Liberia Urged to Fast-Track Protection Policy

Human Rights
Monrovia – Human rights defenders in Liberia are facing increasing threats ranging from intimidation, online harassment and gender-based violence to physical attacks, while a long-awaited national protection policy remains stalled, participants at the ENSURE Project Policy Dialogue...

Liberia: ‘Protect Those Who Defend Rights’: New Research Exposes Mounting Threats to Human Rights Defenders as Liberia Urged to Fast-Track Protection Policy

Human Rights
Monrovia – Human rights defenders in Liberia are facing increasing threats ranging from intimidation, online harassment and gender-based violence to physical attacks, while a long-awaited national protection policy remains stalled, participants at the ENSURE Project Policy Dialogue...

Liberia: The EU spent $16 million to help rape victims get justice, but paralyzed legal system convicts just 2 rapists in 6 years

News
Summary: A 57-year-old grandmother in Todee District says she was raped in January. Seven months later, her case has not been heard, no government official has visited her, and the family of the accused has approached her with money...

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Liberia: Commercial Court Orders NOCAL, Finance Ministry Sealed Over US$764,762 Debt; Finance Chief Held in Contempt

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Liberia: Government, LSEZA Discuss Investment and Job Creation Agenda

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Liberia: Agriculture Ministry Disputes Its Budget Line as Cattle Deaths Mount

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Liberia: How a Failed Harvest Locked an Entire Generation Out of School in Bong County

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