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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The Liberian Investigator
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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The Liberian Investigator
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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The Liberian Investigator
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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The Liberian Investigator
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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The Liberian Investigator
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…