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BREAKING: Second Mystery Vessel Seized in Liberia, Two Foreign Nationals Held Amid Drug Probe

Liberia's joint security forces are in control of yet another mysterious vessel — this time docked behind the Monrovia Central Prison — where two foreign nationals linked to ongoing drug investigations...

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Applied Scholastics Liberia Trains Bong County Educators On Effective, Competency Based Learning

While acute crises such as COVID and Ebola have temporarily crippled Liberian development, the corrosion of educational standards and widespread illiteracy are the enduring plagues threatening life in the...

Liberia: SpoonTV CEO Cuts a Deal, Trades Prison for Testimony

Monrovia — SpoonTV CEO Stanton Witherspoon has secured his release after prosecutors credited him with providing substantial assistance in the investigation and prosecution of a multimillion-dollar scheme involving the...

Liberia: McGill Rejects Costa’s Drug Cartel Allegation, Demands Evidence

Monrovia — Senator Nathaniel F. McGill has strongly rejected allegations by political commentator Henry Pedro Costa seeking to link him to an alleged drug cartel, describing the claims as...

Liberia: Bishop Brown Cautions Opposition Leaders Amid Ongoing Collaboration Talks

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 against allowing the pursuit of...

Liberia: Bishop Brown Cautions Opposition Leaders Amid Ongoing Collaboration Talks

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 against allowing the pursuit of political power...

Liberia: NPA Security Director Charles Roberts Under Fire for Calling MDR Lawmaker ‘Monkey’

MONROVIA — Charles Roberts, Security Director at the National Port Authority and a vocal supporter of the ruling Unity Party, Wednesday described Nimba County...

Liberia: NPP Suspends Three Partisans Over ‘Unauthorized’ Weah Roundtable Endorsement

MONROVIA — The National Patriotic Party (NPP) has suspended three of its partisans after they allegedly used the party’s official letterhead to endorse a...

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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...

Give the LACC Its Day in Court

A prosecutor who asks three times for a trial date and never gets one is not the problem with Liberia's fight against corruption. A...

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...

World Bank: Liberia Can Unlock 5.3% of GDP in Fiscal Space by 2030

Monrovia — Liberia could unlock additional annual fiscal space equivalent to between 3.9% and 5.3% of GDP by 2030 if it implements reforms aimed...

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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 stood Jerome Naa Wlalee and a colleague. By...

‘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...

Liberia: LINAM Graduates Over 75 Students, Calls for Greater Investment in Music Education

MONROVIA — The Liberian National Academy of Music (LINAM) has graduated more than 75 students who completed its Musical Vacation School, marking what officials described...

The Art of Political Departure: Leaving a Legacy of Integrity and Growth

“Leaders should be the frontispiece of wisdom and the phrontistery of national leadership—a living school where younger generations learn to think critically, lead responsibly,...

Truth as the Pillar of Democracy: Enacting a Law Against Deception in Liberia

President Joseph Nyumah Boakai: “We must continue to irreversibly latch ourselves onto the budding democratic culture sprouting from the rubble of a most tragic and...

Liberia: After Two Seasons Without a Sponsor, LFA Unveils US$150,000 Support Package for Clubs

MONROVIA — Following two consecutive seasons of operating domestic league competitions without a primary sponsor, the Liberia Football Association (LFA) has approved a US$150,000...

All Roads Lead to Old Trafford: Manchester Derby Takes Centre Stage in English Premier League Action

Football fever is set to sweep across homes, video clubs and entertainment centers from Monrovia to Harper as Matchday 4 of the English Premier...

Foreign Relations

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

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...

Liberia: No Sacred Cows,” But Some Cows Are More Equal Than Others

SUMMARY: In his national address, President Boakai insisted his anti-narcotics campaign follows the law “without fear or favor” and targets conduct, not politics. But eight months into Liberia’s biggest drug scandal, the pattern on the ground...

Elections

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...

Liberia: Civil Society Coalition Presses Boakai on War Crimes,...

Monrovia — A coalition of Liberian civil society organizations has accused the Joseph Nyuma Boakai administration of dragging its feet on the establishment of Liberia’s proposed War and Economic Crimes...

Diaspora

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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