Author: Rodney Sieh

Monrovia – When Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf turned over the affairs of state in Liberia after two successive six-year terms in office, to President George Manneh Weah, in January 2018, it marked a historic first for Liberia in 75 years.

Monrovia – The National Fisheries and Aquaculture Authority is strongly defending its decision to explore new opportunities including the conducting of experimental shrimp fishing in a bid to revert to the era of the 1970s when shrimp contributed at least US$40 million per annum.

Monrovia – Critics and opponents of George Weah have often made fun of his lack of formal education. That handicap was a key reason why he lost the elections in 2005 to the Harvard-trained and more experienced Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. It also played a major role in Mr. Weah’s decision to play second fiddle, six years later as running mate to Ambassador Winston Tubman in the 2011 Presidential elections.

Monrovia – The straw that finally broke the camel’s back came during the celebration of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf’s last birthday as President of Liberia.

Monrovia – In February 2019, four opposition political parties – the former ruling Unity Party (UP), the All Liberian Party (ALP), the Liberty Party (LP) and the Alternative National Congress (ANC) decided to bond in hopes of forming a formidable force to unseat the incumbent President George Manneh Weah in the 2023 Presidential Elections. In the days after the announcement of the alliance, skeptics and critics alike were quick to adopt a cautious stance – and for obvious reasons.

Monrovia – FrontPageAfrica has learned that a US$180,000 lobbying and public relations campaign aiming to gain US support for the opposition in Liberia was registered in the name of Alan White and Jeffrey Birrell under the banner of the Liberian Renaissance Office Inc.(LIROI).

FRONTPAGEAFRICA: What are some of the benefits of this deal for the people of Liberia? SCOTT LOWE: The benefits for Liberia is that it increases employment on two levels – there will be an extra, approximately twelve hundred permanent jobs, once the production increases from the current five million tonnes to fifteen million tonnes a year of saleable products but in the meantime, there will be 2,300 construction jobs. So, enormous improvements and benefits in terms of employment, additional revenue and income to the government when we triple out our saleable production – and by the way, we’re going to…

Monrovia – On October 4, 2017, the owner’s operators of the Niko Ivanka wrote authorities of the Liberia Maritime Authority, the body responsible for regulating all foreign and domestic waterborne commerce, enforce maritime treaties, including Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS); Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL) as well as the Standards for Training, requesting a license to operate the vessel between the ports of Monrovia and the South-eastern ports via the Junk River in Marshall City. What happened afterward would set in motion a horrifying series of administrative lapses that led to the drowning of the vessel on Sunday, July…

Dear Readers,The last few days have been among the most challenging of my journalistic life.Succeeding governments, past and present have had issues with our reportage and we have paid the price through closures of our newspaper, FrontPageAfrica and my own imprisonment – twice for standing up to the powers that be.

Monrovia – When India recently passed more than 20 million Covid Infections recently, the main opposition Congress Party  demanded a full national lockdown of the country. The announcement has since triggered concerns that Liberia, which relies heavily on the bulk of its importation of the staple food, rice could be in for trouble.