October 2026

CAPITOL HILL, Monrovia, October 21, 2026: A special Liberian Senate committee investigating petroleum levies has identified an alleged US$1.8 million payment sh…

MONROVIA, Liberia, October 21, 2026- The Government of Liberia has announced plans to place 201 volunteer teachers of the Monrovia Consolidated School System (M…

YEKEPA, Nimba County, October 21, 2026: ArcelorMittal High School in Yekepa has recorded a 100 percent pass rate in the 2026 West African Senior School Certific…

CAPITOL HILL, Monrovia, October 21, 2026: Gbarpolu County Senator and former Finance Minister Amara Mohamed Konneh has questioned why Liberia’s reported US$1 bi…

CONGO TOWN, Liberia, October 21, 2026: Liberia is seeking to attract greater investment, expand regional trade and create jobs as it hosts the 7th Prosperity Af…

CAPITOL HILL, Monrovia, October 21, 2026: Students of the Monrovia Consolidated School System (MCSS) have petitioned the National Legislature to urgently interv…

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 21, 2026: Prince George’s County Councilwoman At-Large Wala Blegay will lead a Maryland–Liberia Trade Mission from October 29 to Novem…

CAPITOL HILL, Monrovia, October 21, 2026: A group of prominent Liberian citizens, operating under the banner Voices of the Elders of Liberia, has warned that fu…

MONROVIA – The opposition has found a target in the public schools crisis. Jefferson Tamba Koijee, Secretary General of the Congress for Democratic Change, blam…

MONROVIA –  Senator Edwin Melvin Snowe, Jr. returned to the Senate floor carrying a ledger of unfinished business. His statement reads as an indictment of imple…

MONROVIA – Liberia’s peace is no longer in question. Its prosperity still is. That tension ran through Christine N. Umutoni’s briefing ahead of the 81st United…

MONROVIA – Monrovia’s public school children have become their own advocates. They marched to the Capitol on Tuesday because their teachers would not enter clas…

MONROVIA –Liberia has decentralization laws on paper. Its counties still wait for decentralized delivery. That gap explains why a government delegation is in Ki…

MONROVIA – Memoranda of understanding are easy to sign. Filling them with projects is harder. Maryland and Liberia signed theirs on June 24, 2026. Prince George…

MONROVIA – Forty-one students graduated from ArcelorMittal High School in Yekepa after a perfect WASSCE pass rate. The school now tops every school in Nimba Cou…

MONROVIA — National champion Joseph Gegeh will lead more than 30 Liberian players at the 16th Africa Senior Scrabble Championship, which Liberia hosts for the f…

MONROVIA — The Liberia Football Association launched a four-day integrity workshop Monday to combat match-fixing, illegal betting, corruption, and other unethic…

SHANGHAI, China — Governments and international partners must take concrete steps to protect seafarers from violence, piracy, harassment and other threats, Libe…

MONROVIA — No Liberian city has lost its legal status, Local Government Minister Francis Sakila Nyumalin told the House of Representatives on Tuesday. He disown…

KIGALI, Rwanda — Liberia is looking to Rwanda’s postwar recovery for ways to help county governments deliver better services, as a government delegation began t…

MONROVIA — Former Ambassador Sheikh Al-Moustapha Kouyateh has called on Liberians to resist the country’s concession agreements and demanded they be renegotiate…

Monrovia – The Internal Audit Agency of Liberia (IAA) has officially launched its Gender and Social Inclusion Desk in Monrovia.

MONROVIA — Alfred Lahai Gbabai Brownell Sr., the Robertsport-raised lawyer who spent nearly three decades defending Liberia’s forests and rural communities in c…

UNITED NATIONS — The international force sent to break Haiti’s gangs has fewer than a third of its authorized personnel, Liberia’s U.N. ambassador told the Secu…