MONROVIA – President Joseph Boakai on Monday launched Liberia’s third national action plan on women, peace and security at the United Nations, pledging governme…
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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…
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MONROVIA – Liberian women, including farmers, will be trained in digital, business, and agricultural skills at new technology hubs with on-site daycare under a…
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MANZINI, Eswatini – Parliaments across Southern Africa will get new backing to scrutinize what their governments borrow and how they spend it, under a partnersh…
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Montserrado District 17 Got No Development Funds Despite 2 Budgets, Rep. Benson Says
MONROVIA – Montserrado County’s District 17 has not benefited from the District Development Fund or the Social Development Fund since fiscal 2024, despite budge…
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MONROVIA — The civil society group STAND said Tuesday it has begun consultations toward what it called lawful, peaceful and nonviolent action against the Boakai…
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Liberia Poised to Cross $1 Billion in Revenue Collection on Monday
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…
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Liberia: Passport Opens Two-Thirds of Africa as Global Access Stays Narrow
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…
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MONROVIA – More than 9,000 women in six Liberian counties who once relied on subsistence farming and petty trading are now running small businesses, borrowing t…
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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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Koijee Says Boakai Sacked Tweh for Refusing to Arrest Weah
MONROVIA — Coalition for Democratic Change Secretary-General Jefferson Koijee accused President Joseph Nyuma Boakai on Thursday of ordering the arrest of former…
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Liberia: ArcelorMittal County Development Fund Set at US$5M a Year
MONROVIA — Nimba, Bong and Grand Bassa counties will share US$5 million a year from ArcelorMittal Liberia under the company’s amended mineral development agreem…
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Liberia: President Boakai Removes Justice Minister Tweh, Solicitor General Amid Drug Case
MONROVIA – President Joseph Nyuma Boakai on Wednesday removed both officials directing the state’s prosecution of former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor, rep…
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Dillon Gives IGP Coleman Until Week’s End to Fire, Prosecute Johnny Dean Over US$10,000 Bribe
MONROVIA — Montserrado County Sen. Abraham Darius Dillon has given the Inspector General of Police until the end of this week to dismiss and prosecute the deput…
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BUCHANAN, Grand Bassa County — Four ArcelorMittal Liberia rail employees who spotted a developing hazard on the mainline and acted before it escalated have been…
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TLI Contributor Nukanah Kollie Among 12 Journalists Honored by New Narratives
MONROVIA — Nukanah Kollie, a contributor to The Liberian Investigator (TLI) and senior reporter at Super Bongese Radio in Bong County, was among 12 journalists…
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Liberia: U.S. Treasury Rejects McGill’s Delisting Bid, Says He’s Still Exposed to Corruption
MONROVIA — The U.S. Treasury Department rejected Sen. Nathaniel McGill’s bid to lift Global Magnitsky sanctions, finding that his election to Liberia’s Senate r…
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MONROVIA — Deputy Finance Minister for Economic Management Dehpue Y. Zuo is leaving the Liberian government to become ECOWAS commissioner for economic affairs a…
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Senator Konneh Demands 90-Day Deadline to Charge Suspended Security Officers in Cocaine Case
MONROVIA — Every security officer suspended over the cocaine investigation should be charged within 90 days or returned to duty, Sen. Amara Konneh said Wednesda…
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MONROVIA — Government prosecutors say former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor did not have to handle cocaine to become part of an alleged trafficking operatio…
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MONROVIA – Liberia’s national budget will pass US$1 billion for the first time in the country’s history sometime next month, Finance Minister Augustine Kpehe Ng…
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MONROVIA – The University of Liberia’s finance chief, the official faculty and staff member blamed for the payroll purge that shut the campuses down, has resign…
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MONROVIA – Elected presidents in West Africa are sliding into dictatorship by bending courts to their will and reducing legislatures to echo chambers, former Pr…
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MONROVIA – MONROVIA — Nikola Ivančić, one of three foreign nationals charged alongside former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor, was accused by Croatian prosec…