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

Rodney Sieh -
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...

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War Crimes

Liberia: Expert Warns of Security Risks if Legislature Fails to Approve War Crimes Court...

Anthony Stephens -
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...
Diaspora

SpoonTV CEO Details Cooperation With U.S. Investigators That Led to Reduced Sentence and Early...

Gerald C Koinyeneh -
Monrovia — SpoonTV CEO Stanton Witherspoon has offered a detailed account of how his decision to cooperate with U.S. federal investigators ultimately helped secure his release from prison after he...
Economy

Liberia: Ngafuan Highlights Gains in Health, Education and Energy, Admits More Work Remains

Emmanuel Weedee-Conway -
Monrovia - In an appearance on the state-owned Liberia Broadcasting System, Liberia's Minister of Finance and Development Planning, Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan, walked Liberians through progress in social delivery, especially...
News

Liberia: PUL President: Community Radio Critical to Making Fiscal Decentralization Work

Patience M Jones -
Monrovia —The Press Union of Liberia (PUL) has warned that the success of Liberia’s fiscal decentralization agenda will depend largely on the strength and independence of community radio journalism,...
Politics
Politics

Liberia: Koijee Challenges Property Claims, Demands Answers From NPP Chairman Mulbah

Gerald C Koinyeneh -
Monrovia — Former Monrovia City Mayor Jefferson Koijee has pushed back against competing claims surrounding a property in Monrovia that he says was publicly identified as his by officials of the...
Politics

Liberia:  Unity Party Youth Chairman In Nimba Resigns

Press Release -
The Youth Chairman of Liberia’s ruling Unity Party (UP) in Nimba County, Samuel L. Kartee, has resigned from both the party and his leadership...
Politics

Liberia: Bishop Brown Cautions Opposition Leaders Amid Ongoing Collaboration Talks

Obediah Johnson -
Monrovia — Former Liberia Council of Churches President, Bishop Kortu Brown, has urged opposition politicians to approach Liberia’s political challenges with greater responsibility, cautioning them...

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Editorial: There is a point at which coincidence stops being a credible explanation, and Liberia crossed it this week

IN JUNE, THE country watched a vessel — the IB Atlantic IV — sit off Grand Cape Mount County for the better part of...
Editorial

Put Liberia Before Self

Two opposition alliances in a decade have collapsed for the same reason: leaders who agreed on what they were against, but not on who...
Obituary
Economy
Economy

Liberia: Ngafuan Highlights Gains in Health, Education and Energy, Admits More Work Remains

Monrovia - In an appearance on the state-owned Liberia Broadcasting System, Liberia's Minister of Finance and Development Planning, Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan, walked Liberians through...
Economy

Liberia: Boakai Puts Banks, Borrowers and Government on Notice As NPLs Hit 19%, Demands Urgent Fix

Monrovia — President Joseph Boakai has called for urgent and coordinated action to resolve Liberia’s persistent non-performing loan (NPL) problem, warning that the crisis...

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Education

Liberia: LINSU Launches Second National Quizzing County Meet

MONROVIA – The Liberia National Students Union (LINSU) has launched the second edition of its flagship academic competition, the Liberia National Quizzing County Meet 2026, bringing together high school students from...
Health

Liberia: In Monrovia’s Slums, Boys Are Learning to Talk About Periods Too

Monrovia, - Maxine Lussine didn't expect two men to run her group session that day. Her usual facilitator, Ms. Juwa, was gone. In her place...
Education

‘We Must Strengthen Teachers Professionalization’ -Education Minister Jallah Says Ahead of 2027 AFTRA Conference

Congo Town- Liberia is stepping onto the continental stage of education reform as it prepares to host the 14th Africa Federation of Teaching Regulatory...
Drugs and Crime
Commentary
Commentary

Taxation by Default: A former Assistant Commissioner for Tax Policy examines how currency depreciation quietly increased the tax burden on US-dollar earners—and how the...

How a falling currency raised personal income taxes without an act of the Legislature If you earn United States dollars in Liberia, your income tax...
Commentary

Stanton Witherspoon Is Free But How Can a Man Who Never Went to Prison Have His 41-Month Sentence Reduced to “Time Served”?

The extraordinary journey from a 41-month federal prison sentence to freedom — and why what happened in that Florida courtroom may matter far beyond Stanton Witherspoon himself. For almost three years, Stanton Witherspoon lived with a 41-month federal prison sentence hanging over him. By Derek M. Moore, contributing writer He had pleaded...
Sports
Sports

Liberia: Professionals Bolster Squad with Shaita Angels Duo Ahead of New Season

Christopher C. Walker -
MONROVIA — Liberian women’s top-tier football club, Senior Female Professional, has strengthened its squad ahead of the upcoming league season by signing former Shaita...
Sports

Liberia: Senator Cyrus Fulfils Campaign Promise to Women’s Football

Christopher C. Walker -
MONROVIA — In a resounding demonstration of his commitment to gender equality and sports development, Lofa County Senator and Liberia Football Association (LFA) Executive...

Foreign Relations

Analysis

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...

Liberia: What Comes Next for Jewel Howard-Taylor

Analysis
MONROVIA - Eleven days after she was led into Monrovia Central Prison, Jewel Howard-Taylor went home on Thursday — but not to freedom. Under an order signed by Criminal Court "C" Judge Ousman F. Feika, the...

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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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