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Liberia: 2 Billion Tons of Ore- Switches Back to AMR

The Putu Timeline Sept. 2010: Government ratifies 25-year Mineral Development Agreement with Severstal 2011–12: Severstal buys out partner Afferro Mining, takes 100% control via subsidiary Lybica Holdings 2014: Class A mining license granted; Ukraine-related sanctions...

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Liberia: 2 Billion Tons of Ore- Switches Back to AMR

The Putu Timeline Sept. 2010: Government ratifies 25-year Mineral Development Agreement with Severstal 2011–12: Severstal buys out partner Afferro Mining, takes 100% control via subsidiary Lybica Holdings 2014: Class A mining license granted;...

Liberia: Swedish Ambassador Pledges Continued Support for Post-War Justice, Sexual and Reproductive Rights Among...

Summary: In an exclusive interview, Sweden’s ambassador Karl Backéus has pledged the country will continue to support Liberia’s postwar justice efforts through the U.N., E.U. and other multilateral institutions even as it...

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 wires a wage tax remittance...

Liberia: VP Koung Dismisses Brussels Airport Search Report

MONROVIA — Vice President Jeremiah Kpan Koung has pushed back against reports that he was stopped and searched while transiting through Brussels Airport, dismissing the claims as the latest in...

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 (NPP) Wednesday, as Senator Edwin Snowe convened...

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...

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

Monrovia — Former Monrovia City Mayor Jefferson Koijee has pushed back against competing claims surrounding a property in Monrovia that he says was publicly...

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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...

A Billion Dollars Means Nothing if Bread & Butter Issues not Addressed

LIBERIA HAS DONE something it has never done before. For the first time in 179 years, the government has raised more than a billion...

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...

Liberia: CBL’s New Financial Inclusion Plan Hinges on ID, Business Registry Reforms

MONROVIA – A new Central Bank of Liberia strategy meant to give Liberians access to credit, savings and insurance, not just mobile money, will depend...

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Liberia: When Silence Meets a Shutdown: The New Totota School Crisis No One Acted On Until It Went Viral

MONROVIA – According to an unconfirmed report reaching FrontPage Africa, the Ministry of Education has ordered a suspension of academic activities at New Totota Public School after a photo showing students...

Liberia: FAWE Liberia Trains Recruitment Committee to Expand Tertiary Education Access for Marginalized Youth

MONROVIA — The Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) Liberia Chapter has conducted a refresher training and induction exercise for members of its National...

Liberia: ‘Tubman University Is A  Symbol of Liberia’s Resilience After War’ — Says MFDP Minister Ngafuan

HARPER, Maryland County — The Minister of the Ministry  Finance and Development Planning(MFDP),  Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan, has described William V.S. Tubman University as a symbol...

Liberia’s Democratic Future Requires Competent, Principled, and Diplomatically Prepared Leadership

President Joseph Nyuma Boakai — competent and principled public service“I believe serving at the highest level is an obligation; it means that through you,...

A Billion-Dollar Budget Is Not a Billion-Dollar Economy

Liberia should welcome stronger revenue collection—but celebrating taxation without transforming the economy risks mistaking the government’s growing wallet for the prosperity of its people. By...

WAFU-A Changes AFCON Qualification Route as Junior Lone Star Face Gambia

MONROVIA — Liberia’s national U-17 team, the Junior Lone Star, will face The Gambia on Thursday, September 17, in a high-stakes WAFU Zone A...

Liberia: Grand Gedeh Sports Enthusiast Urges Athletes to Step Up Individual Training Ahead of County Meet

MONROVIA — A sports enthusiast from Grand Gedeh County, Moses Z. Jackson, has urged athletes selected for the county’s football and kickball teams to...

Foreign Relations

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

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

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...

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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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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