Drug and Crime
One Woman, half a Billion Dollars: The Question Liberia’s Drug Investigation hasn’t Answered
As former President George Weah touches down in Monrovia, the two record-breaking drug busts that started this saga — nearly half a billion dollars...
Human Trafficking
Liberia: They Were Found Guilty in Liberia’s Biggest Human Trafficking Trial But No one Has Been Charged Over a Death in the Case. Now...
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The family of Ophelia Melway, a trafficking victim whose death helped expose Liberia’s largest human trafficking case, wants the investigation into her death...
Legal Issues
Liberia: Ex-VP Jewel Howard Taylor’s Drug Case Delayed as Defense Seeks Medical Records, Cardiologist
MONROVIA — The preliminary hearing in the government’s drug trafficking and money laundering case against former Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor has been delayed as...
Economy
Liberia: GAC Clears Liberia’s 2025 Accounts, Flags US$76.9M Year-End Cash Balance
Monrovia – Auditor General P. Garswa Jackson has released the General Auditing Commission’s (GAC) audit of the Government of Liberia’s Consolidated Fund Account for...
Legal Issues
Liberia: Court Puts $8M Bail Bond Under Microscope, Gives Ex-Presidential Protocol Officer 30 Days to Cure Defect, Passport Seized
Monrovia – Former Executive Mansion Chief of Protocol Nora Finda Bundoo is making another legal effort to secure her temporary release, filing a new...
Politics
Liberia: Kogar’s MDR Expulsion Puts Koung, Unity Party’s Nimba Base Under Scrutiny
MONROVIA — The expulsion last week of Senator Samuel Gongben Kogar from the Movement for Reconstruction and Democracy (MDR) may have been decided inside a...
Health
Liberia: Fed, But Starving: Health Workers Say Misinformation, Fees and Aid Cuts are Causing a Dramatic Rise in Severely Malnourished Babies
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21-year-old Lovetee did not know breast milk is all babies under six months can consume. She fed her four-month-old daughter, Princess, soft rice and...
Gender Issues
Liberia: Charlyne Brumskine Becomes First Liberian Woman Appointed to Prestigious Post on West African Regional Court
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Charlyne Brumskine is one of five judges selected for the prestigious role serving on the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Community Court...