August 2026

Unification Town, Margibi – The Liberia Airport Authority (LAA) has procured nine brand-new operational vehicles to strengthen efficiency, enhance airport safet…

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MONROVIA, Liberia, August 27, 2026 — Justice Minister and Attorney General Cllr. N. Oswald Tweh has vowed to intensify Liberia’s crackdown on drug trafficking.

MONROVIA, August 27, 2026 — Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA) Board Chairman Clarence Massaquoi has again declined to publicly disclose the regulator’s…

MONROVIA, Liberia, August 27, 2026 — Gbarpolu County Senator Amara Konneh has challenged the government to prosecute officials dismissed or suspended over alleg…

MONROVIA, Liberia, August 26, 2026 — Former Finance and Development Planning Minister Samuel D. Tweah Jr. has raised questions about the funding source for vehi…

MONROVIA, Liberia, August 26, 2026 — Bomi County Senator Edwin Melvin Snowe has welcomed reports that the government plans to investigate him over alleged links…

MONROVIA, August 27, 2026 — Nimba County Senator Samuel G. Kogar has accused the Boakai administration of shielding individuals allegedly linked to Liberia’s on…

MONROVIA, Liberia, August 27, 2026 — Executive Protection Service (EPS) Director Sam Gaye has defended the government’s decision to prosecute former Vice Presid…

DUOPLAY TOWN, Nimba County, August 27, 2026 — Some residents of Nimba County Electoral District 3 have disputed the 2025 constituency report presented by Rep. N…

GANTA, Nimba County, August 27, 2026 — The Nimba Women Empowerment Village Savings and Loans Initiative held a Flag Day program in Ganta on August 24, bringing…

MONROVIA — Liberia is a small country with a long memory for how badly things can go wrong when institutions fail, and a short one, historically, for holding an…

BUTT NAKED COMMUNITY, Montserrado County — On a recent afternoon, commercial motorcyclists wait for passengers at this bustling entrance into a community which…

Monrovia — Nimba County Senator Samuel Kogar has sharply criticized the government’s handling of former Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor’s arrest, describing…

Monrovia — Gbarpolu County Senator Amara Konneh has urged the Ministry of Justice and security authorities to publicly release documentary evidence surrounding…

Part One of this newspaper’s series on Liberia’s cocaine reckoning was not really a story about a vessel, a stash house, or even a former Vice President. It was…

Court to also rule on FDA officials’ $6M forestry fraud appeal as it clears 55 cases before term’s end. The Supreme Court will this week rule on a bid by …

MONROVIA – President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has placed his administration’s credibility squarely on two promises under public examination: that Liberia’s drug crac…

MONROVIA – Liberia’s drug investigation has reached the point where arrests alone can no longer secure confidence, especially when state institutions and securi…

Justice Minister N. Oswald Tweh has declared an offensive against drug trafficking, but his address also conceded the institutional weakness at the centre of Li…

MONROVIA – Senator Amara Konneh has offered the Boakai administration credit and a deadline: the cocaine seizure demonstrated political will, but only equal pro…

MONROVIA – An opposition party has dared the government to live by the fine words of its own Flag Day oration. The opposition Citizens Movement for Change says…

MONROVIA – Liberia’s maritime reputation will remain incomplete if the country carries one of the world’s most visible flags but lacks Liberians trained to mana…

MONROVIA – Liberia’s transitional-justice debate has never suffered from a shortage of dialogue; its failure has been the long distance between promises and ins…