Legal Issues
Liberia: State Rests as Defense Challenges 5,000-Bag Figure, Witness Accounts
Monrovia — The prosecution has rested its case against former Foreign Affairs Minister Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah and his co-defendants in the Saudi rice…
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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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…