September 2026

MONROVIA – Partners in Development (PADEV) has successfully completed three targeted interventions, reaching over 6,000 beneficiaries in four counties in southe…

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Monrovia-Former Liberia National Police Commissioner for Crime Services Johnny Bolar Dean has been forwarded to court and charged with criminal conspiracy, brib…

MONROVIA — The Liberia National Police has charged the former head of its criminal investigations arm with taking US$10,000 to compromise a US$317 million drug…

‎Monrovia – Liberia is leaving the equivalent of 5.3 percent of GDP on the table every year through weak tax compliance, inefficient spending and poor managemen…

MONROVIA — Former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor walked away from the hearing that would have tested the state’s cocaine-trafficking evidence because the co…

HARPER, Maryland County — September 7, 2026: The Fourth Judicial Circuit Court in Maryland County has sentenced Dougbe Newton and Friday Newton to 30 years in p…

MONROVIA – In Nimba, the vote-rich county that has made and unmade Liberian presidents, a single senator’s quarrel has swelled into a contest that could redraw…

MONROVIA – The Africa College of Bishops’ first Liberia meeting placed the country at the center of United Methodist planning across the continent. Beyond fello…

MONROVIA – Liberia’s induction into the African Petroleum Regulators Forum gives its petroleum regulator access to continental expertise as offshore activity ex…

MONROVIA – The legal team of Former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor has shifted its strategy from preliminary examination to trial amid a dispute over eviden…

MONROVIA – The World Bank’s latest review argues that Liberia has stabilized its finances but must transform how government raises and spends money. That challe…

MONROVIA – Alex Chersia Grant’s PPCC board nomination comes as Liberia moves public contracting toward electronic oversight. Executive Director Bodger Scott Joh…

MONROVIA – Liberia has no shortage of young people with ideas. What it lacks is the machinery to turn those ideas into businesses banks will lend to and investo…

Three years out from a vote nobody has scheduled yet, Liberia’s opposition parties gathered under George Weah’s roof to try, for a third time this decade, to do…

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Monrovia – The criminal case against former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor has taken another major turn, with her lawyers abandoning a preliminary examinati…

Two opposition alliances in a decade have collapsed for the same reason: leaders who agreed on what they were against, but not on who among them mattered less….

Monrovia — Liberia has secured a seat at the continental petroleum regulatory table following the induction of the Liberia Petroleum Regulatory Authority into t…

MONROVIA, Liberia, September 8, 2026 — The family and legal team of former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor have rejected what they describe as prejudicial pu…

MONROVIA, Liberia, September 8, 2026 — The family and legal team of former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor have rejected what they describe as prejudicial pu…

KAKATA, Margibi County — Booker Washington Institute, BWI, recorded a 68.9% failure rate in the 2026 West African Senior School Certificate Examination, with 13…

Monrovia — Liberia could unlock additional annual fiscal space equivalent to between 3.9% and 5.3% of GDP by 2030 if it implements reforms aimed at increasing d…

MONROVIA, Liberia, September 8, 2026 — The Liberia Petroleum Regulatory Authority (LPRA) has been inducted into the African Petroleum Regulators Forum (AFRIPERF…