August 2026

Liberia is moving toward a major expansion of its maritime infrastructure after the Cabinet endorsed a proposed expansion of the country’s ports, including capi…

Some concern citizens of Liberia have called on President Joseph Nuyma Boakai to officially confirm and reassure Liberians that the Liberia-Guinea border situat…

The Ministry of Education has selected and vetted 38 teachers serving in rural communities across Liberia’s 16 Education Counties to participate in a three-week…

Liberia’s persistent poverty crisis is raising fresh questions about the effectiveness of President Joseph N. Boakai’s government, as the latest World Bank esti…

President Joseph N. Boakai’s decision to personally dedicate a newly constructed public restroom facility in Paynesville has triggered debate over presidential…

Liberia faces a growing national-security threat from international drug trafficking, with opposition political leader and lawyer Cllr. Tiawan Saye Gongloe warn…

President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has signed into law the Liberia Sea and Inland Ports Decentralization and Modernization Act, a move that fundamentally alters the…

MONROVIA – Liberia is set to rebuild the ground it was born on. Providence Island, the 11.22-acre site where the founding settlers came ashore in 1822 and which…

MONROVIA – President Joseph Nyuma Boakai’s tourism promise is entering its first serious test of execution. His administration is pairing a new legal framework…

THE LATEST STANDOFF at the University of Liberia is a familiar and dispiriting spectacle. Once again the nation’s premier public university enters a new semeste…

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For many years, thousands of Liberians who survived the country’s 14 years of brutal civil war have waited for justice. Families who lost loved ones, communitie…

MONROVIA, August 17, 2026— Fresh allegations that some commissioners of the Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA) acquired expensive vehicles and property…

MONROVIA, August 17, 2026 — The Government of Liberia is preparing to commence development work at Providence Island as part of efforts to transform the histori…

MONROVIA, August 17, 2026 — The Liberia Massacre Association says it has identified and documented 90 previously unrecorded massacre sites across seven counties…

TEMPLE OF JUSTICE, Monrovia, August 17, 2026 — The Liberian Judiciary has extended condolences to the family of a juror who collapsed and died in a restroom at…

MONROVIA, August 17, 2026 — President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has toured the Ministry of Information, Cultural Affairs and Tourism to inspect ongoing renovation wor…

MONROVIA, Liberia, August 17, 2026 — Gbarpolu County authorities have introduced new monitoring measures requiring mining operators entering the county to prese…

MONROVIA, August 17, 2026 — Liberia has warned the United Nations Security Council that prospects for lasting peace in the Middle East are rapidly diminishing,…

Monrovia, Liberia, August 17, 2026 — Indian Ambassador to Liberia, Manoj Bihari Verma, has reaffirmed India’s commitment to strengthening its longstanding frien…

MONROVIA, August 17, 2026 — The Government of Liberia has completed the procurement process for an Austrian technology company to develop a new national biometr…

As field verification in Bassa, Cape Mount and Lofa shows equipment coded and stored after audit; legal experts say findings point to PFM violations, not crimin…

Nearly two decades after Liberia began rebuilding its Armed Forces following the civil war, officers produced by that reform now occupy some of the country’s mo…

Liberia’s transition toward cleaner and more diversified electricity generation has received a major boost following the Liberia Electricity Regulatory Commissi…