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No Liberian Child Should Learn On The Floor
A school in plain sight THE CHILDREN OF Chief Compound Public School in Gbarnga are not asking for much. They want chairs.…
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Indict Her or Free Her: Liberia Cannot Keep Jewel in Limbo
Summary: Forty-seven days after her arrest, former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor remains under house arrest without a Grand Jury indictment. The government…
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The 2029 Elections are Still Three Years Away, But The Race Has Already Begun
AT THE WEEKEND, President Joseph Nyuma Boakai stood before Liberians in the United States, turned a question about a second term back…
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Same Actors, New Script? The Opposition’s Last Chance to Prove It Has Learned
THE SIGNATURES on Sunday’s joint communiqué were barely dry before the question every Liberian was already asking landed on the table: haven’t…
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Dignity at the Podium, Deportees at the Airport
PRESIDENT JOSEPH NYUMA BOAKAI went to the United Nations on Thursday night and spoke powerfully about dignity. He demanded that Africa, a…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…