MONROVIA – A criminal case involving former Liberia National Police Crime Services Commissioner Johnny Bolar Dean has moved beyond internal police scrutiny and…
September 2026
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Crime & CourtsLiberia NewsSmart News Liberia
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Liberia NewsSmart News Liberia
World Bank Puts Liberia’s Fiscal Failure Under The Microscope
by Staff Writerby Staff WriterLiberia could create additional fiscal space equivalent to between 3.9 percent and 5.3 percent of gross domestic product by 2030, but the World Bank’s latest as…
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Accelerate 360, one of the programs geared toward working along with local businesses for their growth and empowerment through relevant assistance, today , Sept…
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Crime & CourtsFront Page AfricaLiberia News
Liberia: Cassell Kouh Faces US$50,000 Debt Claim After Alleged Failure to Honor Court Payment Deal
Monrovia-Businessman Cassell Anthony Kuoh is facing a US$50,000 action of debt before the Debt Court for Montserrado County after allegedly failing to honor a p…
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Liberia NewsThe Liberian Investigator
PADEV Forestry Projects Reach 6,000 in Southeast Liberia
by Contributorby ContributorMONROVIA – Partners in Development (PADEV) has successfully completed three targeted interventions, reaching over 6,000 beneficiaries in four counties in southe…
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Front Page AfricaLiberia News
When Girls Are Not Taught: Why Menstrual Health Education Must Become a National Priority
Every girl deserves to understand her body
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Crime & CourtsFront Page AfricaLiberia News
Breaking: Former Police Crime Commissioner Johnny Dean Charged Over Alleged US$10,000 Bribe
Monrovia-Former Liberia National Police Commissioner for Crime Services Johnny Bolar Dean has been forwarded to court and charged with criminal conspiracy, brib…
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Crime & CourtsLiberia NewsThe Liberian Investigator
Police Charge Ex-Crime Services Chief Johnny Dean With Bribery
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…
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Business & EconomyLiberia NewsThe Liberian Investigator
Liberia Sitting on 5.3% of GDP in Lost Revenue, World Bank Warns
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…
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Crime & CourtsLiberia NewsThe Liberian Investigator
Liberia: Ex-VP Howard-Taylor Lawyers Say No Grand Jury Has Indicted Her
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…
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Crime & CourtsGNN LiberiaLiberia News
Court Sentences Two to 30 Years for Murder ofJosephine Sieh
by GNNLiberiaby GNNLiberiaHARPER, 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…
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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…
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Liberia NewsThe Analyst
Bishops Deepen Methodist Mission -United Methodists strengthen continental church partnerships
MONROVIA – The Africa College of Bishops’ first Liberia meeting placed the country at the center of United Methodist planning across the continent. Beyond fello…
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Liberia NewsThe Analyst
Liberia Joins African Regulators – LPRA Gains Continental Petroleum Oversight Platform
MONROVIA – Liberia’s induction into the African Petroleum Regulators Forum gives its petroleum regulator access to continental expertise as offshore activity ex…
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Crime & CourtsLiberia NewsThe Analyst
Jewel’s Legal Team Demands Speedy Trial -Challenges prosecution disclosure restrictions
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…
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Liberia NewsThe Analyst
Wallen Charts Fiscal Expansion -World Bank Projects Substantial Annual Gains
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…
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Liberia NewsThe Analyst
Ppcc Embraces Boakai Nominee -Says Grant Nomination Strengthens Procurement Reform Leadership
MONROVIA – Alex Chersia Grant’s PPCC board nomination comes as Liberia moves public contracting toward electronic oversight. Executive Director Bodger Scott Joh…
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Business & EconomyLiberia NewsThe Liberian Investigator
YEIB-MANCO Opens Applications For 50 Youth-Led Businesses
by Contributorby ContributorMONROVIA – 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…
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Front Page AfricaLiberia NewsPolitics
Liberia’s Opposition Tries Unity Again
by Rodney Siehby Rodney SiehThree 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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Liberia: Why EX-VP Howard-Taylor Abandoned Preliminary Evidence Hearing—and What It Means for Her Drug Case
Monrovia – The criminal case against former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor has taken another major turn, with her lawyers abandoning a preliminary examinati…
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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….
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Monrovia — Liberia has secured a seat at the continental petroleum regulatory table following the induction of the Liberia Petroleum Regulatory Authority into t…
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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…