Latest Liberia crime and courts news, including major investigations, criminal cases, trials and justice developments.
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
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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…
MONROVIA – Investors seeking entry into Liberia’s mining and energy sectors will get direct access to the government officials, regulators, and companies drivin…
MONROVIA – The State’s case against former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor rests on her voice, not the cocaine. A Montserrado County grand jury indictment ch…
MONROVIA – A jury at Criminal Court “C” on Friday returned a split verdict in the long-running Saudi-donated rice trial, convicting five former government offic…
MONROVIA, LIBERIA — Former Education Minister George K. Werner has challenged Acting Solicitor General Cllr. Abraham Boimah Sillah to apply the same standards o…
MONROVIA — Eric W. Wowoh, the Liberian businessman charged in connection with a disputed US$30,500 property transaction involving a Liberian-American couple, ha…
MONROVIA — The Government of Liberia has arrested five additional suspects in connection with the high-profile US$317 million cocaine-trafficking case, deepenin…
MONROVIA – For months, Mark Egon Kuiah’s name has hovered over Liberia’s cocaine scandal without ever quite landing.
MONROVIA, October 9, 2026 — The Liberia National Police (LNP) has arrested between 60 and 70 foreign nationals, including a significant number of Chinese citize…
MONROVIA – Liberia’s most prominent drug trafficking and money laundering prosecution entered a new phase this week as several defendants, including a former se…
