Lennart Dodoo

NEW YORK — Liberia told the U.N. Security Council on Monday that the humanitarian cooperation Russia and Ukraine achieved with U.S. help should become “sustaine…

SHANGHAI — Liberian exporters of dried chili peppers, coffee and cocoa could begin selling to China once Liberia submits a list of eligible companies for Chines…

MONROVIA — Customs intelligence officers from across West and Central Africa are meeting in Liberia this week to speed up how they share information on smuggler…

MONROVIA — The Ministry of Public Works expects to pave more than 700 kilometers of primary roads by 2029, about 44 percent above the government’s target. It sa…

MONROVIA — Liberia’s security agencies will act jointly on intelligence shared through the regional customs network and shift from counting seizures to pursuing…

MONROVIA — Liberia’s economy grew 5.1 percent in 2025, driven largely by a 17 percent jump in mining, but the World Bank Group said Monday that more and better…

LONDON — Liberia will press the International Maritime Organization this week for stronger protection of international shipping lanes, its maritime chief said,…

MONROVIA — Liberia will push women’s and young people’s role in peacebuilding, the security risks of climate change, and U.N. Security Council reform when it ta…

MONROVIA — Liberia will require gold to be refined domestically before export, President Joseph Nyuma Boakai said Wednesday. He also announced a sovereign wealt…

MONROVIA — Liberia will take the U.N. Security Council presidency in December for the first time in 65 years. President Joseph Nyuma Boakai is scheduled to chai…

Monrovia — ArcelorMittal has invested nearly US$4 billion in Liberia’s iron ore sector, including about US$800 million to rehabilitate and expand the country’s…

MONROVIA — Gbarpolu County Sen. Amara M. Konneh has asked the Senate to summon the National Port Authority, APM Terminals and five other port-sector actors to e…

MONROVIA — Finance and Development Planning Minister Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan used the commissioning of a World Bank-funded water main on Tuesday to hit back at…

MONROVIA — Prosecutions will rest on evidence, not on the politics, wealth or connections of the accused, Justice Minister-designate Cllr. Betty Lamin Blamo tol…

MONROVIA — About seven in 10 people held in Liberia’s prisons have never been tried, Justice Minister-designate Cllr. Betty Lamin Blamo told senators Monday. Sh…

MONROVIA – Former Foreign Minister Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah’s political party says it will back his appeal to Liberia’s Supreme Court after a jury convicted him…

MONROVIA – The chairman of the U.S. branch of the opposition Congress for Democratic Change has warned that anyone who tries to rig Liberia’s 2029 elections wil…

MONROVIA – President Joseph Nyuma Boakai said Friday that he has asked a small number of officials in his government to step aside, and that some have been relu…

MONROVIA — Former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor’s office said official posts and media documenting her six years in office have been removed from the Faceb…

TORONTO — Liberia will seek Canadian partners and investment for its schools at an Oct. 28 roundtable in Toronto. Education Minister Jarso Maley Jallah will lea…

WASHINGTON — KoBold Metals, a U.S. mineral exploration company that uses artificial intelligence to hunt for critical minerals, plans to send a delegation to Li…

MONROVIA— A Maryland trade mission arriving in Liberia next week will bring businesses with specific proposals in mango and pineapple exports, waste recycling i…

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…