Latest Liberia crime and courts news, including major investigations, criminal cases, trials and justice developments.
MONROVIA — Lawyers representing two Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) sergeants dismissed after a viral video showed one of them allegedly assaulting a young woman…
At Liberia’s international mining and energy conference, Chief Executive Michiel van der Merwe outlined plans for higher iron ore exports, shared railway access…
MONROVIA, Liberia, October 27, 2026: The Liberian Senate has summoned major port operators and government agencies to explain mounting complaints of excessive c…
GANTA, Nimba County, October 27, 2026: The Liberian Judiciary has warned its drivers against disclosing confidential information obtained while transporting jud…
Sanniquellie City, Nimba County- Police in Sanniquellie City, Nimba County have arrested and jailed Armstrong Gobac Selekpoh, a former senatorial candidate in…
The Executive Director of the Office for the Establishment of the War and Economic Crimes Court for Liberia (OWECC-L), Dr. Cllr. Jallah A. Barbu, has warned of…
Justice Minister-Designate Cllr. Betty M. Lamin-Blamo told Senators on Capitol Hill on Monday, October 26, 2026, during her confirmation hearing, that the gover…
MONROVIA, LIBERIA — Liberia’s record of corruption and public financial mismanagement during the 12-year administration of former President Ellen Johnson Sirlea…
MONROVIA – Justice Minister-designate Cllr. Betty M. Lamin-Blamo has staked her confirmation on a promise Liberia’s justice system has struggled to keep. Prosec…
October 27, 2026: The African Medicines Agency (AMA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) have issued joint guidelines aimed at accelerating the development…
MONROVIA – A dolphin washed ashore in Monrovia on a Sunday. Residents first tried to push it back to sea. By the time the National Fisheries and Aquaculture Aut…
MONROVIA — Prosecutions will rest on evidence, not on the politics, wealth or connections of the accused, Justice Minister-designate Cllr. Betty Lamin Blamo tol…
MONROVIA, LIBERIA — The political battle between the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) and the ruling Unity Party (UP) has taken a sharper turn, with former…
Capitol Building, Capitol Hill, October 26, 2026 – As he received a petition on the War and Economic Crimes Court from a CSO group under the banner National Cou…
MONROVIA — Lawmakers will not take up the bill to create Liberia’s war crimes court until January 2027, and the proposed US$1.2 billion national budget sets asi…
MONROVIA — Liberia’s national bar association will press its campaign for war crimes accountability before an international audience in New York on Wednesday, w…
MONROVIA — Liberia’s foreign minister is asking the country’s judiciary to help put the first Liberian on the International Court of Justice, a court no Liberia…
An officer of the Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency (LDEA) is currently in custody following his arrest for the alleged illegal possession of narcotic substances.
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 Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday in the government’s appeal of a February ruling that ordered President Joseph Nyuma Boakai’s admin…
MONROVIA – The Full Bench of the Supreme Court of Liberia is hearing a high-stakes commercial dispute between SRIMEX Oil & Gas Company and the Liberia Petroleum…
Criminal Assizes Court “E” for Montserrado County has found former National Security Agency (NSA) official Peter Bon Jallah, 63, guilty of statutory rape and ki…
MONROVIA, LIBERIA – The Full Bench of the Supreme of Liberia is scheduled to hear arguments today, October 26, 2026 at 11:00 AM in an appeal filed by the Execut…
