Latest Liberia crime and courts news, including major investigations, criminal cases, trials and justice developments.
CONGO TOWN, Monrovia, October 16, 2026 – The United States Department of State has upgraded Liberia from the Tier 2 Watch List to Tier 2 in its annual Trafficki…
MONROVIA – What started as a political controversy over remarks by Montserrado County District 10 Representative Yekeh Y. Kolubah has grown into one of the most…
Who Protects the People When Those Entrusted With Justice Become Part of the Problem?
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 – Two Liberian senators have publicly rejected the Chief Justice’s call to abolish jury trials, arguing that the answer to allegations of compromised j…
MONROVIA— A Liberian delegation comprising officials from the Office for the Establishment of War and Economic Crimes Court for Liberia (OWECC-L) and the Press…
MONROVIA — Newly released Minnesota court documents have shed light on the suspension and subsequent appeal involving three U.S.-based healthcare facilities own…
An administrative law judge says Minnesota regulators failed to prove Golden Touch Health Care posed an imminent danger to residents, a finding supporters of ow…
The legal troubles surrounding individuals from George Weah’s circle, including a former pastor accused of fraud, a former foreign minister convicted in the Sau…
BANGKOK – Liberia’s fisheries regulator is using a World Bank-backed project, which has now disbursed more than 80% of its funds, as a springboard to court priv…
ABUJA, Nigeria, October 14, 2026 — Liberian jurist Cllr. Charlyne M. Brumskine has assumed the presidency of the Community Court of Justice of the Economic Comm…
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…
ABUJA, NIGERIA — Liberian jurist Justice Charlyne M. Brumskine is among five newly appointed judges of the Community Court of Justice of the Economic Community…
MONROVIA – Liberia’s highest judicial officer has put the jury system on trial. Chief Justice Yamie Quiqui Gbeisay says jury tampering has contaminated verdicts…
MONROVIA – Liberia is looking to Rwanda for lessons in justice after mass atrocity. A joint delegation has been in Rwanda since October 2. It brings together th…
MONROVIA — Days after a jury at Criminal Court “C” adjudged her guilty in the Saudi Rice corruption case, former National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) offi…
Prosecution Set to Present Rebuttal Witnesses Next Week as Court Moves Toward Closing Arguments in High-Profile Sexual Assault Case
A Critical Examination of the Allegations, the Money, and the Missing Questions
MONROVIA — Chief Justice Yarmie Quiqui Gbeisay Sr. has called for the abolition of Liberia’s trial jury system over widespread allegations of jury tampering, dr…
MONROVIA – Eric W. Wowoh has strongly rejected allegations of misappropriating funds and unlawfully selling property associated with the Acquah family, maintain…
FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE — President Julius Maada Bio’s government is facing mounting international scrutiny over Sierra Leone’s alleged role as a transit point f…
MONROVIA – The State’s case against former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor is now being argued in public before it is tried in court. Pundits, analyst John H…
MONROVIA – Judge Ousman F. Feika of Criminal Court “C” did not suspend Atty. Gbawou Kowou’s law license. That distinction matters.
KIGALI, Rwanda — For thousands of Liberians still waiting for justice for atrocities committed during the country’s brutal civil conflicts, the establishment of…
