Lennart Dodoo | The Liberian Investigator

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…

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…

MONROVIA – Liberian ministries and agencies will not get everything they ask for in the 2027 budget, Finance Minister Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan warned Thursday, a…

MONROVIA – President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has become the first sitting Liberian president to visit the Virginia office of the Liberia International Ship and Corp…

MONROVIA – Liberia’s cities are failing slowly, through mismanaged land, ignored drainage and unenforced building standards. Architect and urban planner Edmond…

MONROVIA – Magistrates in Montserrado County say public defenders are often absent from their courts, leaving defendants who cannot afford a lawyer without repr…

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – President Joseph Nyuma Boakai on Saturday urged Liberians abroad to turn their patriotism into projects. His government used the same gatherin…

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…

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…

NEW YORK – Liberia has signed an African convention that sets out how children drawn into armed conflict should be disarmed, demobilized, and reintegrated. Its…

MONROVIA – Former Foreign Minister Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah Sr. called on Liberia and the international community to make dialogue, impartial justice and credib…

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…

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…

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…

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…

MONROVIA – Nobel Peace laureate Leymah Gbowee has revealed that President Joseph Boakai helped fund the women’s peace movement in 2003, giving her money outside…

MONROVIA – President Joseph Boakai on Monday launched Liberia’s third national action plan on women, peace and security at the United Nations, pledging governme…

MONROVIA – Liberia wants every young person in the country to have a clear pathway to opportunity by 2035, and on Friday it took that goal to the United Nations…

MONROVIA – Liberian women, including farmers, will be trained in digital, business, and agricultural skills at new technology hubs with on-site daycare under a…

MANZINI, Eswatini – Parliaments across Southern Africa will get new backing to scrutinize what their governments borrow and how they spend it, under a partnersh…

MONROVIA – Montserrado County’s District 17 has not benefited from the District Development Fund or the Social Development Fund since fiscal 2024, despite budge…

MONROVIA — The civil society group STAND said Tuesday it has begun consultations toward what it called lawful, peaceful and nonviolent action against the Boakai…

MONROVIA — Liberia is poised to cross the $1 billion revenue mark Monday toward its original $1.2 billion domestic revenue target, after reported collections re…

MONROVIA — A Liberian passport now allows visa-free entry to 34 African destinations, covering nearly two-thirds of the continent and giving the document its st…