Liberia News

MONROVIA – On paper, Liberia has some of the cheapest petrol in West Africa. Away from the capital, it may have some of the most expensive in the region.

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 — What began as a moment of hope for conservationists ended in frustration after a dolphin that washed ashore at Miami Beach in Monrovia was killed and…

MONROVIA — A fire swept through a bakery and several surrounding residential buildings along Jamaica Road on Bushrod Island on Monday, Oct. 26, leaving several…

Monrovia – The Kids’ Educational Engagement Project (KEEP Liberia), through its Promoting Literacy Pillar, has dedicated a fully equipped reading room (mini lib…

As the ENSURE Project closes this month, Liberian officials, donors and rights advocates gathered in Monrovia with a warning: the threats facing women human rig…

YEREVAN, Armenia — Liberian environmental expert Sylvia Diamond Dorbor has drawn praise from participants at the ongoing United Nations Biodiversity Conference…

KAKATA, MARGIBI COUNTY — The Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) Liberia Chapter has issued a passionate call for increased national investment in gi…

RWANDA — OCTOBER 26, 2026 — Liberia’s study tour of Rwanda’s decentralization system has taken the delegation to the country’s Western Provence, Nyabihu Distric…

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 — FrontPage Africa Editor and Head of Newsroom Gerald C. Koinyeneh has challenged Liberia’s newest high school graduates to treat education as a lifelo…

President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has launched a US$35 million expansion and modernization project at the Liberia Petroleum Refining Company (LPRC), a major investm…

With government tax exemptions and wasteful spending potentially costing Liberia nearly US$200 million annually, Nimba County District No. 7 Representative Musa…

The Government of Liberia has applied to the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) for grant funding under a Compact to help accelerate economic growth and red…

MONROVIA — About seven in 10 people held in Liberia’s prisons have never been tried, Justice Minister-designate Cllr. Betty Lamin Blamo told senators Monday. Sh…

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 — Africa’s continental free trade pact will not reach farmers, small businesses, or young entrepreneurs until the continent rewrites the laws that stil…

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…

Party maintains confidence in former Foreign Minister’s innocence, calls for due process, equal application of anti-corruption laws, and stronger safeguards for…

DAKAR, SENEGAL – Liberian human rights advocate Adama K. Dempster has called for sustained public pressure, stronger international partnerships, and alternative…

New York: At the United Nations General Assembly First Committee Debate, Liberia supported draft resolutions on the Arms Trade Treaty, measures against illegal…

An officer of the Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency (LDEA) is currently in custody following his arrest for the alleged illegal possession of narcotic substances.

Information Minister Jerolinmek M. Piah has acknowledged that no single government or administration can resolve all of a nation’s challenges within a six-year…

The Cooperative Development Agency (CDA), in collaboration with the Rural Economic Transformation Project (RETRAP), has successfully concluded a three-day inten…