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MONROVIA, LIBERIA – The Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) has rejected President Joseph Nyuma Boakai’s recent national address on Liberia’s fight against il…

MONROVIA, LIBERIA – Senator Amara Konneh has challenged the Liberian government to move beyond drug seizures, official suspensions and public destruction of con…

MONROVIA, LIBERIA – Liberia has taken the plight of seafarers directly into the United Nations Security Council’s debate over the war in Ukraine, warning that a…

MONROVIA, LIBERIA – A Monrovia City Court writ of arrest has formally placed former Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor at the center of a sweeping criminal inve…

MONROVIA, LIBERIA – Former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor has been transferred to the Monrovia Central Prison after the Monrovia City Court denied a request…

MONROVIA, LIBERIA – The appearance of former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor before the Monrovia City Court on Tuesday, August 25, 2026, has transformed Libe…

MONROVIA, LIBERIA – Henry Pedro Costa has sharply contrasted the former George Manneh Weah administration’s record on drug enforcement with the current governme…

MONROVIA, LIBERIA – President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has used Liberia’s 179th National Flag Day celebration to issue a strong warning about the growing threat of d…

MONROVIA, LIBERIA – Finance and Development Planning Minister Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan has challenged Liberians to move beyond ceremonial expressions of patrioti…

PORT HARCOURT, NIGERIA – Former Liberian President George Manneh Weah has delivered a forceful warning to African political leaders, saying democratic credentia…

MONROVIA – The University of Liberia’s growing labor dispute has moved from an internal confrontation between faculty and administrators to the highest level of…

MONROVIA – Former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor remained hospitalized Saturday at the Gomez Institute of Medical Sciences in Congo Town, three days after s…

MONROVIA, LIBERIA – Liberia’s decision to accept up to 1,200 third-country deportees from the United States is facing growing public scrutiny after internationa…

MONROVIA – A fresh political confrontation has emerged over Liberia’s escalating fight against illicit drugs, with former President George Manneh Weah calling f…

MONROVIA, LIBERIA – Liberia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Lewis G. Brown II, has called for greater transparency, inclusivity and…

MONROVIA — Liberia is expected to cross the US$1 billion mark in domestic revenue collection by September, Finance and Development Planning Minister Augustine K…

MONROVIA — Former Liberia National Police (LNP) senior officer Johnny Bolar Dean has rejected claims that he was dismissed from the police force over armed robb…

MONROVIA — Former Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor has been formally charged in connection with an alleged transnational narcotics trafficking network, markin…

MONROVIA, LIBERIA – Pressure is mounting on Liberia National Police Inspector General Gregory O.W. Coleman to step aside from the country’s ongoing investigatio…

MONROVIA, LIBERIA — Liberia is on the verge of crossing the US$1 billion mark in domestic revenue collection for the first time in the country’s 179-year histor…

MONROVIA – The Central Bank of Liberia has raised fresh concerns over the health of the country’s banking sector, warning that a sharp rise in non-performing lo…

MONROVIA – A political dispute over Liberia’s response to the narcotics crisis has escalated into a public exchange involving Deputy Information Minister Daniel…

MONROVIA – President Joseph Nyuma Boakai’s decision on Tuesday, August 11, 2026, to remove Deputy Commissioner of Police Fitzgerald T. M. Biago as Director Gene…