Author: Rodney Sieh

Monrovia – Liberia unveiled a new Honorary Consul in Burkina Faso Monday, in the wake of major controversy surrounding the alleged selling of diplomatic passports and consulship to foreign nationals.

Monrovia – Scott Lowe is unfazed about ArcelorMittal’s future in Liberia. The journeyman Chief Operating Officer of the steel giant in Liberia is confident that despite the encroachment on its concession area in Yekepa, Nimba County, the company will weather the latest storm threatening its fourteen-year run in the country.

MONROVIA – Prior to his Liberia assignment, Scott Lowe had an extensive experience in mining working in senior management positions at BHP Billiton and as CEO in several publicly listed exploration and development companies. He holds advanced degrees in Business and Mining; achieved positive outcomes in a number of international locations and complex business and cultural environments.

Monrovia – A leaked, unreleased report by the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission(LACC) reportedly completed nearly a year ago, has concluded that authorities of the Central Bank of Liberia, including former Executive Governor Nathaniel R. Patray and Deputy Governor for Operations, Charles E. Sirleaf did not provide proper oversight and supervision for the Mop-up process to ensure that Massah Sonie, a former Assistant Director in the Banking Department and her teams were in compliance with internal regulatory measures, such as ensuring transactions with legitimate business entities and licensed FX bureaus, thus creating the platform for potential money laundering activities.

Monrovia – A FrontPageAfrica investigation has found that Solway Mining Incorporated, the controversial company, aggressively encroaching on the steel giant, ArcelorMittal’s iron ore concessions in Liberia, has been linked to Estonian multimillionaire businessman, Aleksandr Bronstein, who has strong ties to the inner circle of Russian President, Vladmir Putin, including Alexey Mordashov, owner of the failed Putu Mining Operations in Liberia.

New York – A Gonglomeration of more than 40 human rights organizations including Human Rights Watch, Civitas Maxima (Liberia), the Foundation for Human Rights and Democracy (Liberia) and Global Justice and Research Project (Liberia) are urging President George Manneh Weah to use his speech at the 75th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to commit to the establishment of a war crimes court in Liberia.

Monrovia – The opposition Collaborating Political Parties (CPP) is expressing unsettling concerns over a decision by the National Elections Commission to launch a Voters Update Exercise with the adoption of a Mobile Process Exercise which will be carried out without any reference to the other parties who are equal competitors in the sacrosanct democratic undertaking, ahead of the December 8 Senatorial Midterm elections.

Monrovia –  Hours after the US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo designated him blacklisted from traveling to the United States of America, Mr. Andrew Wonplo, who until his arrest and detention last year, served as Director of Passport at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, says he is pursuing legal action against the US for creating trauma for he and his family.

Monrovia – Last February, FrontPageAfrica reported that Liberia was at risk of being sanctioned by the African Union unless it settles its indebtedness to the continent’s governing body.

Monrovia – Mr. Andrew Wonplo, the disgraced former Passport Director of Liberia who was arrested in August 2019 and accused of selling Liberian Passports to foreign nationals, has been banned from entry into the United States of America despite recently being set free by the judicial branch of Liberia.