Monrovia – The Liberia Women Empowerment Project is bringing traditional and religious leaders and district grievance committees in six counties on board as par…
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MONROVIA – The Association of Liberian Journalists in the Americas will raise money for journalism training and media development in Liberia at its 14th Nationa…
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Liberia: Council of Churches Warns Against Political Revenge in Saudi Rice Case
MONROVIA – The Liberia Council of Churches warned Tuesday that the prosecution in the Saudi rice case must not become “political revenge,” days after a jury con…
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Liberia: Bureau of State Enterprises Runs Oversight With Three Vehicles
Monrovia – The agency that oversees Liberia’s state-owned enterprises told the National Budget Committee Monday that it has 65 employees and three vehicles to m…
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Liberia: Tubman University Seeks Police Probe Into Campus Disruption
HARPER, Maryland County – William V. S. Tubman University has asked the Liberia National Police to investigate a group, including some of its own staff, that th…
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Sen. Konneh Asks US to Sanction Mining Enablers, Warns Liberia at ‘Most Dangerous Point’
Monrovia – Gbarpolu County Sen. Amara M. Konneh has asked the United States to impose Global Magnitsky sanctions on people who enable mining licensing deals in…
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Liberia: 1,313 Women-led Businesses in River Cess, Grand Gedeh Begin Training to Qualify for Grants
MONROVIA — More than 1,300 women-led businesses in River Cess and Grand Gedeh counties are being trained this month to manage savings, maintain business records…
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Liberia Courts Mining, Energy Investors at First Expo
MONROVIA – Investors seeking entry into Liberia’s mining and energy sectors will get direct access to the government officials, regulators, and companies drivin…
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Liberia: Jewel Howard-Taylor Indictment Leans on Her Voice, Not the Cocaine
MONROVIA – The State’s case against former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor rests on her voice, not the cocaine. A Montserrado County grand jury indictment ch…
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University of Liberia Seeks $61.6M as Enrollment Doubles Capacity
MONROVIA – The University of Liberia, holding about 30,000 students on a campus built for 15,000, is asking the government for $61.6 million to fund its 2027 pr…
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Three Liberians Indicted in Minnesota Voting Case
MONROVIA – Three Liberians in Minnesota are among 10 noncitizens indicted by a U.S. federal grand jury on charges of falsely claiming U.S. citizenship to vote o…
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Liberia 2027 Budget: Ngafuan Warns of Funding Limits
MONROVIA – Liberian ministries and agencies will not get everything they ask for in the 2027 budget, Finance Minister Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan warned Thursday, a…
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MONROVIA – President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has become the first sitting Liberian president to visit the Virginia office of the Liberia International Ship and Corp…
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MONROVIA – Liberia’s cities are failing slowly, through mismanaged land, ignored drainage and unenforced building standards. Architect and urban planner Edmond…
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Liberia: Montserrado Magistrates Flag Public Defender Shortage
MONROVIA – Magistrates in Montserrado County say public defenders are often absent from their courts, leaving defendants who cannot afford a lawyer without repr…
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Boakai Urges Diaspora Investment as Liberia Seeks Rating
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – President Joseph Nyuma Boakai on Saturday urged Liberians abroad to turn their patriotism into projects. His government used the same gatherin…
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Liberia: Boakai Presses Africa’s UN Security Council Reform Case
NEW YORK – When the United Nations Charter was signed in San Francisco in 1945, only four African countries put their names to it. Liberia was one of them. Eigh…
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NEW YORK – Liberia is lobbying governments to remove the carbon price and global fund from the International Maritime Organization’s net-zero shipping rules bef…
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NEW YORK – Liberia has signed an African convention that sets out how children drawn into armed conflict should be disarmed, demobilized, and reintegrated. Its…
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Liberia: Kemayah Calls for Dialogue, Justice and Trusted Institutions at International Peace Summit
MONROVIA – Former Foreign Minister Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah Sr. called on Liberia and the international community to make dialogue, impartial justice and credib…
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Liberia Positions Its Forests and Coast as High-Integrity Climate Solutions
NEW YORK, United States – Liberia is moving to turn its forests, mangroves, coastline and rivers into a source of climate finance that pays communities for prot…
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NEW YORK – Liberia’s environmental chief warned Wednesday that the country’s peace depends on confronting the climate pressures bearing down on its forests, riv…
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New York – Liberia has drafted a practical handbook to stop Africa’s elected members of the UN Security Council from losing their negotiating know-how every tim…
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Foreign Ministers Hail Liberia’s Women As Model For Peace at UN
MONROVIA – Foreign governments from Europe, Africa and Latin America held up Liberia as proof that women can end wars, as Morocco proposed that Liberia join a c…