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Liberia: Stalled Bridge Leaves River Cess Residents Risking Their Lives on Makeshift Log — One of Dozens of Abandoned Projects Nationwide
Summary:
A US$90,000 bridge project was abandoned after half of the contract value was paid, leaving farmers, traders and schoolchildren stranded and families divided.
County authorities are trying...
Politics
Liberia: Dillon Rebukes Sando Over Konneh Attack, Warns: ‘Do Not Follow Political Clapping and Cheers’
Monrovia — Montserrado County Senator Darius Dillon has publicly rebuked Deputy Information Minister Daniel O. Sando over his attack on Senator Amara Konneh, warning his...
Diaspora
Liberian Pastor Suffers Stroke in U.S. ICE Custody as Family Raises Concerns Over Medical Care
CARY, North Carolina — The family of a 55-year-old Liberian pastor held in U.S. immigration detention is demanding answers after he suffered a stroke while...
Drug and Crime
Liberia: Five LDEA Leadership Changes in Two Years—Senator Konneh Warns Liberia Cannot “Change the Figurehead” and Cure the Cancer
MONROVIA— President Joseph Nyuma Boakai’s decision to replace the leadership of the Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency marks the latest turn in a revolving door...
Analysis
U.S. Signal to Liberia’s Drug War Carries Extra Weight After Record Busts — and a Cloud Over Its Chief Enforcers
The U.S. Embassy meeting between Chargé d’Affaires Joe Zadrozny and Liberia’s top police officials — Inspector General Gregory Coleman and EPS Director Sam Gaye...
Editorial
Guinea Border: Time for Government to Level with the Liberian People
Since February, Liberia’s border with Guinea has seen repeated incursions, a flag removal, troop deployments, and the displacement of thousands of residents in Lofa...
Diaspora
Liberians Trapped in Cambodian Detention Plead for a Way Home
A group of Liberian nationals, writing through spokesperson Emmanuel Johnson, say they’ve been held at a Cambodian immigration detention center in Phnom Penh since...
Economy
Growth Without Development: Again, Liberia’s Self-Inflicted Development Crisis
In the early 1960s, a Northwestern-led team of economists arrived to study what was then one of the fastest-growing economies on earth. Liberia was...