MONROVIA, Liberia — Former National Public Health Institute of Liberia (NPHIL) Director General Dr. Dougbeh Chris Nyan has challenged the current administration…
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Coleman’s Drug Cartel Revelation Raises Questions: Why Have Senior Government Officials Not Been Named?
by Staff Writerby Staff WriterMONROVIA, LIBERIA — Liberia’s Inspector General of Police, Gregory O.W. Coleman, is facing growing questions over his revelation that senior government official…
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Chief Justice Blasts Boakai Government: ‘past Government Took No Action; Present Government Rewarded Him’
by Staff Writerby Staff WriterGbeisay raises alarm over Mark Jabateh’s appointment amid threats linked to contested Ganta land dispute
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U.s. Senate Seeks Human Rights Answers From State Department On Liberia
by Staff Writerby Staff WriterResolution raises questions about deportees, detention conditions, possible abuses and financial arrangements between Washington and Monrovia
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Guinea’s Economic Boom Raises Questions About Liberia’s Natural Resource Wealth
by Staff Writerby Staff WriterMONROVIA, LIBERIA — Guinea’s projected economic boom is raising important questions about Liberia’s ability to transform its natural resources into meaningful e…
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Cocaine Scandal: Maada Bio Government Under Fire As European Drug Fugitive Remains In Sierra Leone
by Staff Writerby Staff WriterFREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE — President Julius Maada Bio’s government is facing mounting international scrutiny over Sierra Leone’s alleged role as a transit point f…
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MONROVIA, LIBERIA — Former Montserrado County District #10 Representative Yekeh Y. Kolubah has declared that he will contest Liberia’s 2029 presidential electio…
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Kante Reportedly Surfaces In Mexico: What Is Boakai Government Doing To Bring Him Back To Liberia?
by Staff Writerby Staff WriterMONROVIA, LIBERIA — New questions are emerging over the Liberian government’s pursuit of Sheik Bashiru Kante, a central figure in the ongoing investigation into…
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Saudi Rice Scandal: Major Blow To Corruption As Two Former Weah Ministers Are Found Guilty
by Staff Writerby Staff WriterMONROVIA, LIBERIA — Liberia’s anti-corruption campaign has recorded a major development following the reported conviction of two former cabinet ministers who se…
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Koon Under Threat? Secret Meetings Raise Specter Of Koffa Speakership Saga
by Staff Writerby Staff WriterMONROVIA, LIBERIA — What is unfolding within Liberia’s House of Representatives is beginning to resemble a replay of the political maneuverings that culminated…
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Senator Chea Challenges Ministry’s Authority To Downgrade Legislatively Created Cities
by Staff Writerby Staff WriterMONROVIA, LIBERIA — Senator Cllr. Augustine S. Chea has challenged the legal authority of the Ministry of Local Government to downgrade or dissolve cities estab…
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Grand Jury Indicts 20 In Liberia’s Expanding Drug Case, Including Former Vice President Jewel Howard-taylor
by Staff Writerby Staff WriterMONROVIA, LIBERIA — Liberia’s sprawling investigation into an alleged transnational drug-trafficking network has entered a new judicial phase, with a Grand Jury…
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The Weah Paradox: The Dancing President Who Built Roads, Hospitals And Schools
by Staff Writerby Staff WriterMONROVIA — George Weah’s presidency continues to provoke a fascinating debate in Liberia—one that may ultimately have less to do with dancing and singing than w…
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1,253 Government Accounts: Where Is Liberia’s Money?
by Staff Writerby Staff WriterMONROVIA — As Liberia’s Revenue Authority intensifies its call for information sharing and improved domestic revenue mobilization, an important disclosure by th…
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‘reformists’ Demand Resignations As House Faces Fresh Us$5m Accountability Crisis
by Staff Writerby Staff WriterMONROVIA, LIBERIA — Tensions are reportedly escalating within Liberia’s House of Representatives, with a group of lawmakers under the banner of the Reformists M…
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Sorlumba Left Behind? Boakai’s Border Test And The Constitutional Duty To Defend Liberia
by Staff Writerby Staff WriterThe unresolved situation at Sorlumba in Lofa County has become more than a remote border dispute. It is increasingly a test of Liberia’s sovereignty, the govern…
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Saudi Rice Trial: Fresh Witness-tampering Allegations Rock Arept
by Staff Writerby Staff WriterPAYNESVILLE, Liberia — A fresh confrontation involving defense counsel and Liberia’s Asset Recovery and Property Retrieval Taskforce (AREPT) has introduced a ne…
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Ul-sharda Center Of Excellence Set For Launch With Distinguished Contributors Honored
by Staff Writerby Staff WriterMONROVIA – The University of Liberia is preparing to formally inaugurate a new Center of Excellence in collaboration with Sharda University of India, with a dis…
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Liberia’s Development Paradox: Waiving Us$240 Million In Taxes While Chasing Foreign Development Aid
by Staff Writerby Staff WriterMONROVIA, LIBERIA — There is something profoundly contradictory about the way Liberia is pursuing development. While the government travels from one internation…
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Do Less, Build More: Jallah Unveils Radical Blueprint For Liberia’s Transformation
by Staff Writerby Staff WriterMONROVIA, LIBERIA — Public commentator Jacob Jallah has challenged Liberia’s traditional approach to budgeting, calling for a radical shift toward fewer but mor…
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Cental Demands Stronger Mining Laws, Anti-corruption Measures
by Staff Writerby Staff WriterMONROVIA, LIBERIA – The Center for Transparency and Accountability in Liberia has called for stronger legal, institutional and anti-corruption measures in the c…
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Boakai At 84: One-term Promise, Second-term Possibility And The Question Liberia Must Ask
by Staff Writerby Staff WriterMONROVIA — President Joseph Nyuma Boakai’s possible return to the 2029 presidential ballot is rapidly becoming one of Liberia’s most consequential political que…
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Lone Star Fundraising Turns Political: Has Liberia’s Football Legacy Become A Casualty Of Partisan Rivalry?
by Staff Writerby Staff WriterMONROVIA — What was supposed to be a national campaign to return Liberia’s Lone Star to the Africa Cup of Nations is increasingly becoming entangled in Liberia’…
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Liberia And Israel: From Historic Friendship To A New Diplomatic Distance
by Staff Writerby Staff WriterMONROVIA — Few diplomatic relationships carry the historical irony of Liberia and Israel.