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 Grand Gedeh County, holds an estimated 2.37...
Foreign Relations
Liberia: Swedish Ambassador Pledges Continued Support for Post-War Justice, Sexual and Reproductive Rights Among Other Priorities After Embassy Closure
Summary:
In an exclusive interview, Sweden’s ambassador Karl Backéus has pledged the country will continue to support Liberia’s postwar justice efforts through the U.N., E.U. and other...
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 payroll officer...
Government News
Liberia: VP Koung Dismisses Brussels Airport Search Report
MONROVIA — Vice President Jeremiah Kpan Koung has pushed back against reports that he was stopped and searched while transiting through Brussels Airport, dismissing the...
Editorial
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 Agreement. Under...
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 US$1 billion...
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 hard place...
Legal Issues
Liberia: Prime Credit Sues Central Bank, Demands Nearly US$1.2M Over Credit Bureau Dispute
Monrovia — Prime Credit Reference Bureau, Inc., a Liberian-owned company headed by Managing Director and CEO Eugene Bedell, has filed a damages action against the...
Obituary
Liberia: Private Bar HR Manager Dies as Boss Leroy Harris Faces Drug Trial
Monrovia-Emmanuel Gilman, the Human Resources Manager of Private Bar, has reportedly died under circumstances that are raising fresh questions amid an ongoing drug investigation...
News
Breach Or Betrayal? Liberia Grapples With Fallout From Child Data Leak
Monrovia — A controversy that began with a single Facebook post has widened into a pointed question for the Liberian government: how did confidential...
County News
Liberia: Saudi Rice Trial Goes to Court, But Victims Say They Still Want the Help They Were Promised
Summary
The long-delayed trial over Saudi-donated rice intended for vulnerable and disaster-affected Liberians but was allegedly diverted to line officials’ pockets has begun in Monrovia.
Some...