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Liberia: Criminal Court “B” Releases Jerry Wrato on Habeas Corpus

Court action comes hours after Police IG Coleman rejected VP Koung’s plea for Wrato’s release and moved to prosecute him on four cybercrime charges By: Willie N. Tokpah Monrovia-Criminal Court “B” of the...

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Liberia: How a Dutch Fugitive Found His Way Through West Africa’s Porous Ports, Borders,...

Ghana and Liberia sit on the same stretch of West African coast, share the same colonial-era port infrastructure, and now, investigators say, share the same weakness: officials willing to...

Liberia: Police Reject VP’s Plea, Charges Wrato on Four Cybercrime Counts

MONROVIA – The Liberia National Police (LNP) has concluded its investigation into Jerry Nyantee Wrato and will forward him to court on four cybercrime charges, rebuffing a public appeal...

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 from across the country. By Emmanuel...

Liberia: Three Videos Put Saudi Rice Distribution Under Fresh Scrutiny as Defense Witness Continues...

MONROVIA — Three video recordings depicting the distribution of Saudi-donated rice were presented by the defense Monday as its first witness continued testifying in the closely watched trial involving...

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

NIMBA COUNTY – There is a version of Nimba County politics that has held for a generation. Influence flows through party structures, and party structures flow through a handful of dominant personalities....

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

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

Liberia: Saclepea Mayor Under Fire After Admitting GOL Awarded MDR Contract in Nimba, Then Backtracks

SACLEPEA, Nimba County — In Saclepea, Nimba County, the promise of newly paved streets should ordinarily be a welcome development. Instead, a government road project...

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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...

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...

Minister Ngafuan Says Increased Revenue Means Greater Capacity to Deliver for Liberians

Monrovia – The Minister of Finance and Development Planning, Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan, has clarified that Liberia’s achievement of the US$1 billion domestic revenue threshold...

How Liberia’s Milestone Billion-Dollar Revenue Took Shape

Monrovia- At a customs desk in Monrovia, a clerk stamps another form before 9 a.m. In a mining camp outside Kokoyah, a payroll officer...

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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 from across the country. By Emmanuel Weedee-Conway The Foundation...

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...

Liberia: Johnbertha Foundation Launches LD$558,000 Scholarship Fund For 60 Montserrado Students

MONROVIA — The Johnbertha Foundation has launched a LD$558,000 educational scholarship and financial aid program to support 60 students from Montserrado County’s Districts #15 and...

A Statement of Appreciation to the Esteemed Leadership, The Gallant Armed Forces, and The Resilient People of The Federal Republic of Nigeria (A Perspective)

May I, on behalf of the people of the Republic of Liberia, express our deepest and most heartfelt gratitude to the Federal Republic of...

The “Rescue Mission” Is A Politics of Ressentiment!

What was marketed to the Liberian people under the deceptive name and style of the “Rescue Mission” has now revealed its true character. It...

Lone Star Arrives in Kigali Ahead of Crucial Rwanda AFCON Qualifier

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...

Gerald Julius Resigns as Downtown FC Head Coach

MONROVIA — Newly appointed Downtown Football Club head coach Gerald Julius has resigned from his position before taking charge of the club in a...

Foreign Relations

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

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

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

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...

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...

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Crime Watch

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

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

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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