Monrovia – The arrest of Jerry Nyantee Wrotto, a young man accused of cyberbullying Vice President Jeremiah Kpan Koung Sr., and the Vice President’s subsequent…
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Liberia: LDEA Testing Clears Malaysia Shipment
by Rodney Siehby Rodney SiehMonrovia — A shipment that triggered alarm this weekend over suspected cocaine and heroin has tested negative for narcotics, the Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency…
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Liberia: New Charging Rule Confronts a System the U.S. State Department Has Long Flagged as Broken
by Rodney Siehby Rodney SiehA new order from the Solicitor General requiring prosecutor sign-off before police can charge a suspect lands against a backdrop the U.S. State Department has d…
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Liberia: Suspected Narcotics Shipment From Malaysia Under Testing at Roberts Airport Amid Growing Trafficking Concerns
by Rodney Siehby Rodney SiehA 202.5 kg shipment declared as botanical powder, coffee and candy — sent from Malaysia and cleared through Roberts International Airport customs — is now being…
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The Price of a Vote: What Liberia’s Smallest UN Bill Says About Its Biggest Claims
by Rodney Siehby Rodney SiehMonrovia – There is a number so small it barely registers on the ledger of a $3.45 billion organization: $34,000. It is the least any nation on Earth can be …
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Liberia: 2 Billion Tons of Ore- Switches Back to AMR
by Rodney Siehby Rodney SiehSept. 2010: Government ratifies 25-year Mineral Development Agreement with Severstal
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What Liberia’s Historic Revenue Milestone Means – and Doesn’t Mean – for Ordinary Liberians
by Rodney Siehby Rodney SiehMonrovia — Liberia is celebrating a number. For the first time in the country’s 179-year history, domestic revenue collection has pushed past US$1 billion in a single year — a …
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Liberian Officials Post Vulnerable Children’s Data to “Prove” Aid Programs Work
by Rodney Siehby Rodney SiehMonrovia – In Liberia, showing your work used to mean something simple — a photo of a handshake, a ribbon-cutting, a smiling child holding a new backpack. This…
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Liberia: Boakai Shuffles Cabinet: New Acting Defense, Commerce Ministers; Gender Deputy Suspended
by Rodney Siehby Rodney SiehMonrovia – President Joseph Nyuma Boakai Sr. has shaken up several government ministries and agencies, announcing a wave of new appointments this week.
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Liberia: A Mystery Vessel, a Prison, and a Warning Nobody Answered
by Rodney Siehby Rodney SiehMONROVIA — There is a version of this story in which the boat behind the Monrovia Central Prison is nothing more than a stray vessel, pushed toward shore by the…
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BREAKING: Second Mystery Vessel Seized in Liberia, Two Foreign Nationals Held Amid Drug Probe
by Rodney Siehby Rodney SiehLiberia’s joint security forces are in control of yet another mysterious vessel — this time docked behind the Monrovia Central Prison — where two foreign nation…
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Liberia’s Opposition Tries Unity Again
by Rodney Siehby Rodney SiehThree years out from a vote nobody has scheduled yet, Liberia’s opposition parties gathered under George Weah’s roof to try, for a third time this decade, to do…
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Liberia: What Comes Next for Jewel Howard-Taylor
by Rodney Siehby Rodney SiehMONROVIA – Eleven days after she was led into Monrovia Central Prison, Jewel Howard-Taylor went home on Thursday — but not to freedom. Under an order signed by…
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Liberia: Are The Courts Quietly Stalling The Anti-Corruption Commission’s Cases?
by Rodney Siehby Rodney SiehA Margibi County corruption case — backed by a paper trail of prosecutors asking, three separate times, for a trial date — is raising hard questions about wheth…
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UNIBOA at 35: Reeves Challenges Bassa Diaspora to Build an Enduring Future Beyond Charity
by Rodney Siehby Rodney SiehAt UNIBOA’s 35th convention, Liberia Maritime Deputy Commissioner Emmanuel Nuku Reeves tells the Bassa diaspora that charity built the last thirty-five years —…
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Co-Defendant Challenges Judge’s Ruling Granting Ex-VP Taylor House Arrest, Calls It Unlawful
by Rodney Siehby Rodney SiehMONROVIA — A day after Criminal Court “C” ordered former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor moved from Monrovia Central Prison to guarded house detention on med…
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Liberia: A Justice Ministry Reset:Cleaner Prosecutions, or More Politically Fraught Ones?
by Rodney Siehby Rodney SiehMONROVIA — President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has replaced his Minister of Justice and Attorney General, along with his Solicitor General, hours after former Preside…
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Liberia: In US$19m Cocaine Case: 10 Indicted Over 200kg Haul, US$100k Bribe Plot
by Rodney Siehby Rodney SiehMONROVIA — A Montserrado County Grand Jury has indicted 10 defendants in connection with the alleged trafficking of a 200-kilogram cocaine shipment through Robe…
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One Woman, half a Billion Dollars: The Question Liberia’s Drug Investigation hasn’t Answered
by Rodney Siehby Rodney SiehAs former President George Weah touches down in Monrovia, the two record-breaking drug busts that started this saga — nearly half a billion dollars combined — h…
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Liberia: What a Secretly Recorded ‘Gift’ Call – and the Koffa Precedent – Mean for the Case against Jewel Howard Taylor
by Rodney Siehby Rodney SiehLiberian law is openly hostile to secret recordings. A Monrovia courtroom let one in anyway earlier this year, in the Capitol arson case against former Speaker…
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The Historical Society of Liberia has launched a 24-volume Presidents Biography Series — one book for every Liberian head of state since 1848. The first volume,…
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Liberia: Ex- Vp Howard-Taylor Hearing Pushed To Next Wednesday, As Questions Mount Over Government Timeline
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Liberia: Uneven Justice, and the Risk of Repeating an Old Mistake
by Rodney Siehby Rodney SiehPart One of this series traced how a June airport seizure grew into the largest drug investigation in Liberia’s history, implicating former Vice President Jewel…
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Liberia: How a Mystery Ship Exposed a Nations’s Blind Spots
by Rodney Siehby Rodney SiehMONROVIA — Liberia is a small country with a long memory for how badly things can go wrong when institutions fail, and a short one, historically, for holding an…