Analysis
Liberia: New Charging Rule Confronts a System the U.S. State Department Has Long Flagged as Broken
A new order from the Solicitor General requiring prosecutor sign-off before police can charge a suspect lands against a backdrop the U.S.…
Rodney Sieh
Breaking News
Liberia: Suspected Narcotics Shipment From Malaysia Under Testing at Roberts Airport Amid Growing Trafficking Concerns
A 202.5 kg shipment declared as botanical powder, coffee and candy — sent from Malaysia and cleared through Roberts International Airport customs…
Security
Liberia: LNP Launches New Recruitment Drive, Betting on Numbers and Reform to Rebuild Public Trust
Inspector General Gregory O.W. Coleman has launched a new Liberia National Police recruitment exercise, framing it as central to nearly two decades…
News
The Price of a Vote: What Liberia’s Smallest UN Bill Says About Its Biggest Claims
Monrovia – There is a number so small it barely registers on the ledger of a $3.45 billion organization: $34,000. It is…
Mining Issues
Liberia: 2 Billion Tons of Ore- Switches Back to AMR
Monrovia – For a decade and a half, the mountain has mostly kept its secrets. Putu, tucked into the forested hills of…
Economy
How Liberia’s Milestone Billion-Dollar Revenue Took Shape
Monrovia- At a customs desk in Monrovia, a clerk stamps another form before 9 a.m. In a mining camp outside Kokoyah, a…
News
What Liberia’s Historic Revenue Milestone Means – and Doesn’t Mean – for Ordinary Liberians
Monrovia — Liberia is celebrating a number. For the first time in the country’s 179-year history, domestic revenue collection has pushed past…
Drug and Crime
Liberia: How South American Cartels Found a New Home on West Africa’s Coastline
Monrovia- For a few years after 2010, West Africa was, in the words of officials who fought to make it so, a…
News
Liberian Officials Post Vulnerable Children’s Data to “Prove” Aid Programs Work
Monrovia – In Liberia, showing your work used to mean something simple — a photo of a handshake, a ribbon-cutting, a smiling…
Breaking News
Liberia: Boakai Shuffles Cabinet: New Acting Defense, Commerce Ministers; Gender Deputy Suspended
Monrovia – President Joseph Nyuma Boakai Sr. has shaken up several government ministries and agencies, announcing a wave of new appointments this…