Legal Issues
Liberia: Court Grants Koffa, Kamara Permission to Seek Medical Treatment Abroad
Monrovia-Criminal Court “A” at the Temple of Justice has granted temporary medical travel clearance to two opposition lawmakers, embroiled in the ongoing Capitol Building...
Agric Matters
Liberia’s Rice Revolution: Experts Say A Proven Model Offers Hope to Break Dependence on Imports and Reduce Hunger
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As the Boakai administration drives a major push to lift rice production and reduce vulnerability to price hikes, experts say a new rice growing...
Regional News
Boakai Calls for Global Reparatory Justice as UN Slave Trade Resolution Opens ‘Historic Door’
ACCRA, Ghana – President Joseph Nyuma Boakai, Sr. has called for a coordinated global effort to pursue reparatory justice for the descendants of enslaved Africans,...
Breaking News
Liberia: Key Person of Interest in US$19 M Drug Bust Whereabout Unknown, Fled Hotel After Aviation Seminar in China
Washington – Oscar Brown, a key person of interest in last week’s US$19 million drug bust at the Roberts International Airport has reportedly gone...
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Liberia: Airport Worker Who Rejected US$20K Bribe Key to Showing Hidden Hands Behind Us$19M Drug Bust
Washington – In January 2009, former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf honored a hero. A year prior, in 2008, Richard Karyea, a customs officer for...
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Liberia: Court Orders GLS Mengies to Produce Documents, CCTV Footage in Expanding Probe of Major Cocaine Seizure at RIA
HARBEL, Margibi County – The ongoing investigation into the recent cocaine seizure at Roberts International Airport (RIA) has entered a new phase after a...
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Taxed Into Shame: Ghana Gives Free Pads, Liberian Girls Cut Up Diapers
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In River Cess and other rural areas, some girls use baby diapers, cloth, tissue, or other unsafe materials during their periods. Some stay home...
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Liberia: Mystery Deepens Over Suspect Linked to US$19.2 Million Drug Bust as Justice Minister Says He Doesn’t Know if He Exists
CAPITOL HILL, Monrovia – Recent assertions by Liberia’s Minister of Justice, Cllr. Oswald Tweh, regarding the whereabouts of the prime suspect in the US$19.2...