Rodney Sieh

Court clears ex-ULIMO commander of crimes against humanity but leaves sentence intact

Monrovia – On a humid January morning in 2018, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf stood at the Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Stadium in Paynesville and handed the keys of the Lib…

Monrovia- Every Sunday, pastors across Liberia climb into pulpits to comfort the grieving, counsel the broken and lift the weary. Few in the pews stop to ask wh…

A Liberian judge convicted a former national security aide of statutory rape and kidnapping but cleared him of gang rape. Four days later, his lawyers filed a m…

MONROVIA – On paper, Liberia has some of the cheapest petrol in West Africa. Away from the capital, it may have some of the most expensive in the region.

Monrovia – Few Liberian presidents have been in a position to remake the Supreme Court from top to bottom. President Joseph Nyuma Boakai is on course to do exac…

MONROVIA – A 63-year-old resident of Monrovia’s Airfield area will spend the coming weeks in the Monrovia Central Prison awaiting sentence. On Friday, Criminal…

MONROVIA – Liberia’s President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has issued a new executive order setting out how the country’s interim railway office will finish its work an…

MONROVIA — Liberia’s Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday in the government’s appeal of a February ruling that ordered President Joseph Nyuma Boakai’s admin…

MONROVIA — Stephen M. Yekeson Jr. told senators Wednesday that he wants to be “judged by what is delivered.” His confirmation statement gives the Senate one pro…

Monrovia – The full bench of the Supreme Court of Liberia is scheduled to hear arguments today, Thursday, October 22, 2026, in former Montserrado County Distric…

Monrovia — Thousands of students in school uniforms marched on Liberia’s legislature on Tuesday, chanting “We want to learn too.” They were protesting months of…

MONROVIA – On Monday, the Liberian Senate under the leadership of Pro Temp Nyonblee Karnga-Lawrence, called FrontPageAfrica’s reporting on a staff salary plan “…

Monrovia – Bomi County Senator Edwin Melvin Snowe, Jr. has called for an urgent, independent audit of local government spending in the county, citing allegation…

MONROVIA — For most of the past half-century, Liberia’s mineral wealth has been a story told in the past tense. In the 1960s and 1970s, iron ore from the Nimba…

MONROVIA – For most of this year, Jos Leijdekkers has lived in Liberia as a whisper. Security officers traded sightings no one could pin down: a convoy on the B…

Monrovia – A top legal officer at the Liberian Senate could soon take home US$2,920 a month. That is roughly 20 times what the law guarantees an unskilled Liber…

MONROVIA — One of Liberia’s most prominent clergymen used his Sunday pulpit to challenge the West African nation’s leaders and citizens to stop letting past fai…

MONROVIA — When Chief Justice Yamie Quiqui Gbeisay Sr. rose to open the Supreme Court’s October Term on Monday, he did not deliver a routine ceremonial charge….

MONROVIA – Liberia’s most influential Christian body has called on the government, the courts and the country’s political class to keep politics out of the cour…

WASHINGTON, DC — A Liberian senator has told American democracy advocates that his country faces two threats at once: multinational mining companies working thr…

MONROVIA – Judge Ousman F. Feika of Criminal Court “C” did not suspend Atty. Gbawou Kowou’s law license. That distinction matters.

MONROVIA – Liberia’s leaders and churches must not mistake the end of the war for the arrival of peace. That was the charge Rev. Dr. Samuel Reeves delivered fro…

MONROVIA – For months, Mark Egon Kuiah’s name has hovered over Liberia’s cocaine scandal without ever quite landing.