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Liberia: Private Bar HR Manager Dies as Boss Leroy Harris Faces Drug Trial

Monrovia-Emmanuel Gilman, the Human Resources Manager of Private Bar, has reportedly died under circumstances that are raising fresh questions amid an ongoing drug investigation that has already placed the establishment and...

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Liberia: Jury Convicts 46-Year-Old Man of Statutory Rape of 12-Year-Old Girl

Monrovia-The conviction of a 46-year-old man for statutory rape involving a 12-year-old girl has brought renewed attention to the responsibility of adults who have access to children and the...

Breach Or Betrayal? Liberia Grapples With Fallout From Child Data Leak

Monrovia — A controversy that began with a single Facebook post has widened into a pointed question for the Liberian government: how did confidential records on some of the...

Liberia: Whispers of a Handshake: Inside the Rumor Mill Surrounding Kolubah and Pres. Boakai

MONROVIA — Rumors move fast in Liberian politics, but few in recent memory have traveled as quickly, or generated as much chatter, as the reports now circulating about a...

The Long Wait for Fistula Surgery in Liberia

For more than three years, Lorpu has lived with the constant leakage of urine and feces caused by obstetric fistula, a debilitating childbirth injury. By: Tina S. Mehnpaine The condition where...

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 has become the subject of an increasingly...

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...

Liberia:  Unity Party Youth Chairman In Nimba Resigns

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...

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EDITORIAL: Stop Using Vulnerable Children as Proof of Government Work

THERE IS A special kind of carelessness in believing that good intentions excuse bad judgment. This week, several Liberian officials — including Mo Ali,...

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...

Liberia Crosses US$1 Billion in Domestic Revenue, Says MFDP Minister Ngafuan

HARPER, Maryland County —  Liberia has crossed the US$1 billion mark in domestic revenue collection for the first time in the country’s 179-year history,...

Liberia: CBL, Commerce Ministry Push SMEs to Turn Market Opportunities into Growth as Liberia Expands Access to Finance

Paynesville — Access to finance, business readiness and stronger partnerships between entrepreneurs and financial institutions dominated discussions on the second day of a national...

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Liberia: Rep. Williams Donates US$100, LRD$60,000 to Maryland Quizzing Team

PAYNESVILLE, Montserrado County — Maryland County District 2 Representative Anthony F. Williams has donated US$100 and LRD$60,000 to the Maryland County Quizzing Team amid growing concerns over the team's living conditions while...

Liberia: Minister Ngafuan Urges Tubman University Students to Turn Knowledge into Action

HARPER, Maryland County — The Minister of the Ministry of  Finance and Development Planning(MFDP) Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan has challenged students of Tubman University to...

Liberia: UL Backs US$30M EU-Funded SAFish Project, Eyes Strategic Partnership to Transform Liberia’s Fisheries Sector

FENDALl —The University of Liberia (UL) has thrown its weight behind a potential strategic partnership with the European Union-funded Strengthening Artisanal Fishing (SAFish) Value...

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...

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...

Liberia: Questions Loom Over Loyalty as Mohammed Kamara Withdraws from AFCON Qualifiers

MONROVIA — Liberian international Mohammed Kamara has once again withdrawn from the Lone Star squad ahead of Liberia’s crucial 2027 Africa Cup of Nations...

Liberia: Tebeh FC Chief Urges Squad to Correct Mistakes Following Heavy Pre-Season Defeats

MONROVIA — Trokon Roberts, Chief Executive Officer of newly promoted Liberia Football Association (LFA) Second Division side Tebeh FC, has called on his players...

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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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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