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The appointments strengthen an institution the government is counting on to turn the country’s cultural, historical and natural assets into a larger source of j…

In Togo, the controversy surrounding the constitutional reform of 6 May 2024 is now also being played out on legal grounds. What exactly does the judgment deliv…

Liberia gave up about US$41 million in rice taxes in 2024 on the promise that the sacrifice would protect poor families. The World Bank now says most of the ben…

MONROVIA — The Liberia Petroleum Regulatory Authority (LPRA) has been inducted into the African Petroleum Regulators Forum (AFRIPERF), the continental body that…

MONROVIA — The organizers who delivered President Joseph Nyuma Boakai the presidency in 2023 are now saying publicly that the Unity Party has no use for them, a…

MONROVIA — The standard-bearer of The People’s Party, Joseph K. Bannie, warned the Boakai administration on Saturday against what he called the impulsive use of…

MONROVIA – The Episcopal Church of Liberia plans to split into three dioceses within four years, ending more than 150 years as a single national diocese, and th…

WASHINGTON — The family of the late Rev. Dr. J. Edwin Lloyd Sr., the army officer who became Liberia’s first veterans affairs chief and built the support networ…

HARPER, Maryland County — Liberia’s higher education regulator told faculty at William V. S. Tubman University that teaching alone no longer meets what the coun…

HARPER, Maryland County — Four men indicted for the mob killing of Josephine Sieh walked out of the 4th Judicial Circuit Court on Monday after the judge found t…

SANNIQUELLIE, Nimba County — From Thursday last week through Monday this week, Baha’is serving on institutions and agencies of the Baha’i Faith, alongside those…

MONROVIA — Liberia must rethink its development strategy and build stronger systems capable of withstanding economic, climate, health and geopolitical shocks, p…

Hon. Henry F. SaamoiExecutive GovernorCentral Bank of Liberia (CBL)Ashmun & Lynch StreetsMonrovia, Liberia

Information Minister Jerolinmek M. Piah has clarified that the defense team representing former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor, rather than the prosecution,…

MONROVIA — The Government of Liberia is moving to intensify its fight against illegal mining, with the National Taskforce to Combat Illicit Mining Activities pr…

Monrovia, Liberia – As artificial intelligence rapidly transforms economies, industries and public services around the world, Liberia is taking an important ste…

MONROVIA — The Liberia National Police (LNP) has charged the former head of its criminal investigations division with accepting a US$10,000 bribe to compromise…

After decades away from Liberia, Suffragan Bishop Wilmot T. Merchant II has returned home to lead the LoBoNi Archdeaconry of the Episcopal Church of Liberia (Lo…

MONROVIA – President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has challenged newly commissioned government officials to abandon bureaucratic excuses and deliver measurable results,…

MONROVIA – President Joseph Boakai has placed Liberia’s commissioned officials under a test: public authority must produce measurable results. His September 8 c…

President Joseph Boakai approaches Liberia’s December Security Council presidency with unfinished justice business threatening the country’s international credi…

Senator Samuel G. Kogar has told citizens of Nimba that the controversy surrounding the establishment of a War and Economic Crimes Court (WECC) was primarily in…

MONROVIA – Liberia’s development debate is shifting from crisis response toward preparation, resilience and stronger national ownership. The September 3 dialogu…

GonetAfrica has graduated 60 young people from its 2026 Youth Empowerment & Leadership Vacation Program, challenging the emerging leaders to move beyond acquiri…