Elections
Liberia: As National Elections Commission Chief Steps Down After 12 Years, Advocates Say She Offers a Powerful Example of Women’s Leadership
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Advocates said Davidetta Browne Lansanah, who stepped down after 12 successful years leading the National Elections Commission in March, showed the positive impact of...
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Liberia’s Cocaine Probe Sparks War of Words Between Elected and Appointed Officials
Monrovia — Liberia’s investigation into the more than US$337 million cocaine seizures has triggered an increasingly bitter war of words between elected officials and presidential...
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Liberia: Mary Broh Walks Free as Court Drops Saudi Rice Charges
Monrovia – The Saudi rice case has been a dramatic fall for former GSA Director General Mary Tanyonoh Broh, from one of Liberia’s most...
Breaking News
Liberia Set to Receive First 20 Third-Country Asylum Seekers From U.S.
Monrovia — The Government of Liberia says the first group of 20 individuals being transferred from the United States under a bilateral arrangement will...
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Inside Liberia’s Stalled War on Drugs, Investigation into multiple narcotics busts
Monrovia - MONROVIA — For weeks, the question hanging over Liberia’s largest-ever drug bust was whether anyone would be formally charged at all. That...
Economy
Liberia Set to Cross US$1 Billion in Domestic Revenue for First Time
MONROVIA — Liberia is on course to collect more than one billion United States dollars in domestic revenue in a single year for the...
Drug and Crime
Liberia: Police Chief Demands Senator Konneh “Show the Evidence” in Cocaine Cartel Claims
MONROVIA — A pointed letter from Liberia’s top police official to Sen. Amara Konneh has escalated tensions between law enforcement and the legislature over...
Diaspora
Group Home Operator Sekou Dukuly Disputes Characterization in NPR/MPR Investigation, Points to Absence of Fraud Findings
MONROVIA, Liberia — No federal or state authority has accused Sekou Dukuly of fraud, and that fact, he and his associates argue, has been...