Former Highway Patrol Chief Wadell W. Kwabo Challenges Detention as Court Battle Intensifies in US$317 Million Drug Trafficking Scandal By: Willie N. Tokpah Monrovia-Former Liberia National Police Highway Patrol Commander …
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Liberia: LDEA OIC Denies Receiving Toyota Pickup From Man Charged in $317M Cocaine Case, Welcomes Independent Probe
by lnnby lnnMonrovia – The Officer-in-Charge of the Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency (LDEA), Deputy Commissioner of Police Fitzgerald T. M. Biago, has strongly rejected allegations linking him to individuals accused in Liberia’s …
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Liberia: LDEA Dismisses Claims OIC Biago Received Pickup From Alleged Drug Trafficker
by lnnby lnnMonrovia – The Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency (LDEA) has rejected allegations that its Officer-in-Charge, Deputy Commissioner of Police Fitzgerald T. M. Biago received a Toyota pickup truck from an individual …
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How a Paynesville Nightspot Became Ground Zero in Liberia’s Cocaine Case
by lnnby lnnMonrovia – The operation that shut down Private Bar on Wednesday looked, from the outside, like a raid built to send a message. Heavily armed security officers blocked access to …
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Liberia: Get to the Bottom of Private Bar — Before a Generation Pays the Price
by lnnby lnnA nightspot closed for a day, its owner facing charges, and a lot of unanswered questions about who else spent their evenings there. If the government treats Private Bar as …
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Liberia: Boakai On Drug Scandal – ‘We Will Find You’ – But Will The Courts Deliver?
by lnnby lnnHe came to swear in judges and court marshals. He left having delivered the most direct public warning of his presidency — to drug traffickers, yes, but also, if the …
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Monrovia – Coleman’s statement, posted to his personal Facebook page, reads less like a routine institutional update and more like a man answering a question nobody asked him directly, because …
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From Kakata to the Subregion: Why a Digital Marketplace for Liberia’s Tradesmen Matters Far Beyond Liberia
by lnnby lnnWest Africa has spent decades training plumbers, electricians and carpenters, only to watch too many of them finish their certificates and disappear into an informal economy with no customers, no …
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Liberia: Foreign Minister Nyanti Rebuts Drug Allegations, Details Liberia’s Global Anti-Narcotics Diplomacy as Open Society Defends Her Character
by lnnby lnnMonrovia – Foreign Minister Sara Beysolow Nyanti has rejected speculation linking her to Liberia’s ongoing multi-million-dollar cocaine investigation, insisting that her role has been to mobilize international support for the country’s anti-drug …
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Liberia: West African Diplomats Reaffirm Commitment to Regional Peace, Security, Democratic Governance, and Economic Cooperation
by lnnby lnnWashington, D.C. – The Embassy of the Republic of Liberia in Washington, D.C., proudly hosted the Fourth ECOWAS Ambassadorial Group Meeting, bringing together ambassadors and senior diplomatic representatives from West …
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Monthly sanitation campaign promotes hygiene, changes attitudes among marketers Monrovia – The Liberia Chapter of Shincheonji Church of Jesus (SCJ) is promoting community hygiene and environmental cleanliness through a monthly …
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Liberia: YARD-Liberia, Courageous Youth Laud Government Free Public School Registration Policy, Call for School Renovations
by lnnby lnnMargibi County—Two civil society organizations, YARD-Liberia, Inc. and Courageous Youth, have welcomed and praised the Ministry of Education’s decision to introduce free registration for all children attending public schools from …
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Liberia: LFA SG in Hot Water as Stakeholders Demand Dismissal Over CAF Registration Saga
by lnnby lnnMONROVIA – Calls for accountability within the Liberia Football Association (LFA) are intensifying as football stakeholders demand the dismissal of the association’s Secretary General, Emmett Crayton, following Liberia’s failure to …
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CUMMINGS’ LAST GO-ROUND’ He spent nineteen years rising through one of the world’s biggest companies, eventually overseeing Coca-Cola’s business across 56 African countries. Twice, he has tried to translate that …
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INVITATION TO TENDER Tender Reference No (IFB No): LAA/PPP/BOT/ICB/001/2026 The Government of the Republic of Liberia, represented by the Ministry of Transport and the Liberia Airport Authority (the “Public Party”), …
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Liberia: Dismissed Airport Authority Deputy Mark Kuiah’s Long Shadow Over Liberia’s Cocaine Scandal
by lnnby lnnMonrovia – To understand why Mark Kuiah’s name keeps surfacing, it helps to understand what his job was. As Deputy Managing Director for Operations at the Liberia Airport Authority, Kuiah …
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Liberia: The Investigators Are the Investigation: Why Boakai Must Force His Security Sector to Come Clean
by lnnby lnnThe Investigators Are the Investigation Why Boakai Must Force His Security Sector to Come Clean Two police commanders escorting cocaine in marked cruisers. An intelligence chief taking a bribe to …
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Liberia: Private Bar Shutdown As Police Put CEO Leroy Harris Under Investigation in US$317 Million Cocaine Case
by lnnby lnnPaynesville City – Liberia’s Joint Security on Wednesday sealed off the Private Bar Entertainment Center in Paynesville, closing the establishment to the public as its owner, George Leroy Harris, came …
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Liberia: Bishop Brown Challenges Investigators to Identify Senior Officials Linked to Drug Trafficking; Calls Police IG’s Claims Against Media ‘Reckless’
by lnnby lnnMONROVIA – Prominent Liberian cleric Bishop Kortu Brown has challenged state investigators to publicly identify senior government officials they say are linked to facilitating the trafficking of cocaine and other …
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Liberia: Five Days, Nine Hundred Teachers, One Shared Mission: Kakata’s Teacher Symposium Closes Friday
by lnnby lnnEight American volunteers paid their own way to Margibi County this week, not for a vacation, but to sit in classrooms at the Kakata Rural Teacher Training Institute and talk …
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Liberia: From Weah’s Inner Circle to Boakai’s Watch: Kollie, Mulbah Admit Weah-Era Governance Failures, Praise Parts of Pres. Boakai’s Administration
by lnnby lnnMONROVIA — Two prominent political figures who were associated with the political coalition that propelled former President George Weah to power in 2017 have delivered contrasting but revealing assessments of …
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Liberia: EPA Boss Dr. Yarkpawolo Warns Against Climate Finance Debt, Demands Accountability in Liberia
by lnnby lnnDr. Yarkpawolo said the financial consequences of climate disasters are particularly damaging for developing countries because governments are often forced to redirect money originally intended for essential services toward emergency …
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Liberia: LACRA Targets Coffee Revival as Nearly 700,000 Liberica Seedlings Reach Liberian Farmers
by lnnby lnnSUAKOKO, Bong County — Liberia’s efforts to revive its indigenous coffee industry received a major boost Wednesday as the Liberia Agriculture Commodity Regulatory Authority (LACRA) joined government officials, development partners and …
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Liberia: CENTAL Applauds President Boakai Administration’s Action in Major Drug Bust, Urges Greater Transparency and Inclusive Investigation
by lnnby lnnCENTAL Executive Director Mr. Anderson Miamen MONROVIA – The Center for Transparency and Accountability in Liberia (CENTAL) has commended the Government of Liberia(GoL) for taking decisive action against public officials …