August 2026

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…

CENTRAL MONROVIA, August 18, 2026: The Liberia National Police (LNP), through Inspector General Gregory Coleman, has requested Gbarpolu County Senator Amara M….

TEMPLE OF JUSTICE, Monrovia, August 18, 2026: The Government of Liberia has dropped all charges against former General Services Agency (GSA) Director-General Ma…

MONROVIA, Liberia, August 19, 2026: Former River Gee County Senator Conmany B. Wesseh has warned Liberians against taking the country’s 23 years of uninterrupte…

CAPITOL HILL, Monrovia, August 19, 2026: River Gee County Senator Francis Saidy Dopoh II has criticized Gbarpolu County Senator Amara M. Konneh over his continu…

SANNIQUELLIE, Nimba County: A jury at the Sexual Offenses Division of the Eighth Judicial Circuit Court has found 55-year-old former police patrolman Wessay W….

Monrovia, August 19, 2026: The Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA), in collaboration with Liberty Connect Liberia Inc., is hosting a two-day FM Radio Sta…

Monrovia, August 19, 2026: The Ministry of Health (MOH) is expanding routine childhood vaccination services beyond traditional clinic hours and into markets and…

Monrovia, Liberia, August 19, 2026: The Liberia Electricity Regulatory Commission (LERC) has rejected LIBENERGY’s request to reconsider its approved electricity…

PLEEBO, Maryland County: The Maryland Oil Palm Plantation (MOPP), in collaboration with the Maryland County local government and other partners, has dedicated a…

The Liberia Electricity Regulatory Commission (LERC) has denied LIBENERGY’s request for reconsideration of the Commission’s July 6, 2026, tariff decision, while…

Deep in the rainforest of Nimba County, heavy excavators work around the clock tearing high-grade iron ore from the earth at Tokadeh Mountain. From there, heavi…

MONROVIA – The Liberia National Police has formally demanded that Gbarpolu County Senator Amara Konneh produce evidence to substantiate a series of serious alle…

MONROVIA – The widening controversy surrounding Liberia’s multimillion-dollar cocaine investigations has taken a new turn, with Gbarpolu County Senator Amara Ko…

MONROVIA – The Government of Liberia has confirmed an arrangement with the United States to receive up to 1,200 third country nationals being transferred from t…

NEW YORK – Liberia has joined seven other members of the United Nations Security Council in calling for stronger and more coordinated action to address the grow…

MONROVIA – The Liberia Revenue Authority’s latest revenue performance has drawn praise from transparency advocate Anderson Miamen, who has welcomed the governme…

KAKATA, MARGIBI COUNTY – Flow Day, in partnership with the We Dream In Color Foundation– USA, has officially launched the distribution of sanitary pads to rural…

More than three years after the brutal killing of 28-year-old Charlotte “Charloe” Musu, a group calling itself the Concerned Citizens of Liberia has renewed pre…

MONROVIA – President Joseph Nyuma Boakai’s tourism pledge is moving from rhetoric toward brick and mortar. By breaking ground at Providence Island, his administ…

FISH TOWN, River Gee County — The Armed Forces of Liberia wants women to make up as much as a fifth of its ranks, roughly triple their current share, and …

The ruling Unity Party has handed Senator Prince Kermue Moye a politically sensitive assignment: overseeing and conducting the party’s regional leadership elect…