August 2026

MONROVIA — Global lifestyle and wellness company QNET has announced a major leadership restructuring, strengthening its executive team and expanding regional ov…

Monrovia, Liberia; August 19, 2026: The National Elections Commission (NEC) has validated its new Communications Strategy following a high-level internal valida…

Flow Day, in partnership with the We Dream In Color Foundation–USA, has launched a free sanitary pad distribution initiative targeting rural women in Quela Dist…

MONROVIA — The Monrovia City Court has held lawyer J. Jefferson Chesson in contempt for discussing a case pending before it on a television talk show and insinu…

MONROVIA — FM station owners and broadcasters in Grand Bassa County will meet their regulator across a table this week in the first of two workshops the Liberia…

MONROVIA — The National Transit Authority on Tuesday dedicated and commissioned 20 buses and five cargo trucks, significantly expanding Liberia’s public transpo…

MONROVIA — School principals across Liberia now have an opportunity to pursue advanced degrees at a reduced cost following a new partnership between Starz Unive…

MONROVIA — The Initiative for Women and Youth Empowerment has trained journalists and media practitioners in Liberia to strengthen accurate and responsible repo…

MONROVIA — River Gee County Sen. Jonathan Boye-Charles Sogbie says Liberia’s newly enacted National Sports Fund Authority law could end decades of chronic under…

Former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor has been invited by investigators of the Liberian National Police to answer questions in connection with an ongoing co…

ZWEDRU, Grand Gedeh County — The Civil Service Agency (CSA) has broken ground for the construction of a regional headquarters in Zwedru, Grand Gedeh County, in…

Monrovia— As the war of words continues between critics of the Government of Liberia and its spokespersons at the Ministry of Information, Representative Musa H…

Monrovia, Liberia; August 19, 2026: – The Ministry of Local Government (MLG) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have reaffirmed their commitmen…

MONROVIA – Former Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor on Wednesday, August 19, 2026, headed to the Liberia National Police (LNP) headquarters with her lawyers af…

MONROVIA — Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Cllr. Augustine Chea has sharply questioned the decision by the Liberia National Police to invite Gbarpolu County Se…

MONROVIA – The Government of Liberia has entered a one-year arrangement to receive up to 1,200 people removed from the United States. The framework rests on an…

MONROVIA — The Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) has condemned the reported invitation of Gbarpolu County Senator Amara M. Konneh by the Liberia National Po…

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is the full text of a statement issued by the Government of Liberia announcing an arrangement with the United States to receive up…

MONROVIA – Nimba County lawmaker Musa Hassan Bility has entered the widening dispute over Liberia’s cocaine investigation. He is defending Senator Amara Konneh…

The Government of Liberia has announced an agreement to receive approximately 1,200 individuals being transferred from the United States, a decision that is alr…

MONROVIA  – The Gabriel L. Dennis Foreign Service Institute will stage a weeklong program of debates and lectures. The series is tied to Liberia’s coming presid…

Confusion and frustration have gripped thousands of Liberian 12th-grade students following the failure of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC-Liberia) t…

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MONROVIA, August 19, 2026: The Government of Liberia says it has agreed with the United States to receive up to 1,200 third-country nationals transferred from t…