October 2026

PAYNESVILLE — More than 120 of Africa’s leading Scrabble players from about 24 countries will compete in Monrovia next week, as Liberia hosts the Africa Scrabbl…

MONROVIA – Liberia’s climate fight is being explained to the public in plain terms, and that alone is progress. Dr. Emmanuel K. Urey Yarkpawolo heads the Enviro…

Liberia has paid for this lesson in graves. The civil conflict that consumed 14 years of our national life was not only a war of guns; it was a war …

MONROVIA – Chief Justice Yamie Quiqui Gbeisay’s call to scrap jury trials has met organized and articulate resistance in the Liberian Senate. Senators Amara M….

MONROVIA – The Senate’s resistance to abolishing jury trials now has a reform blueprint. Senator Edwin Melvin Snowe, Jr. has joined Senators Konneh, Dillon and…

PAYNESVILLE — Defending champions Determine Girls lost 2-0 on Saturday to Shaita Angels, the club their former coach, Robert Lartey, now leads. A week earlier,…

MONROVIA – A dispute over who built a public health emergency center has become a proxy war over NPHIL’s leadership. Dr. Dougbeh Christopher Nyan says Africa CD…

MONROVIA – A perfect WASSCE record in Nimba County says as much about school financing as about student talent. All 41 graduates of ArcelorMittal Liberia High S…

MONROVIA – Liberia has crossed US$1 billion in domestic revenue, yet a Bushrod Island high school says it has gone weeks without teachers. That contrast is the…

There are some lessons a nation must never forget, some roads a people must never travel again, and some wounds that must forever remind us of the terrible pric…

GREENVILLE, Sinoe County — The Samuel Alfred Ross Port of Greenville could provide about US$500,000 in equipment to the Samuel Alfred Ross Port of Greenville, a…

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DAKAR, Senegal, October 19, 2026 — Senegal’s national carrier, Air Sénégal, is considering launching flight operations to Liberia in the first or second quarter…

ST. PAUL, Minnesota, October 19, 2026 — A United States administrative law judge has recommended lifting the emergency suspension of three assisted living facil…

ArcelorMittal High School in Yekepa, Nimba County, held its 19th graduation ceremony on Friday, October 16, 2026, celebrating 41 senior high school graduates at…

MONROVIA, October 19, 2026 — The House of Representatives has invited Education Minister Dr. Jarso Jallah and the Superintendent of the Monrovia Consolidated Sc…

DAKAR, Senegal, October 19, 2026 — Liberia, through Foreign Minister Sara Beysolow Nyanti, has chaired the final session of a high-level Economic Community of W…

MONROVIA, October 19, 2026 — The Government of Liberia, through the Ministry of Mines and Energy, has officially launched the Liberia International Mining and E…

MONROVIA, October 19, 2026 — Acting Grand Gedeh County Superintendent Christopher B. Bailey has blamed factional politics for the absence of the county’s lawmak…

MONROVIA, October 19, 2026 — The MacDella Cooper Foundation has concluded its day-long “She’s the Way” Girls Mentorship Summit, bringing together prominent wome…

SALY, Senegal, October 19, 2026 — Liberia has reaffirmed its commitment to liberalizing air transport services across Africa as aviation leaders and regulators…

MONROVIA — Senator Amara Konneh’s recent appeal for the United States to impose Global Magnitsky sanctions on individuals allegedly enabling questionable mining…

MONROVIA – For most of this year, Jos Leijdekkers has lived in Liberia as a whisper. Security officers traded sightings no one could pin down: a convoy on the B…

The number of girls below the age of 15 reported pregnant in Grand Cape Mount County rose from 94 in 2024 to 161 in 2025, representing an increase of approximat…