Latest Liberia politics news, government updates, political developments and analysis from across Liberia.
MONROVIA – Chief Justice Yamie Quiqui Gbeisay’s call to scrap jury trials has met organized and articulate resistance in the Liberian Senate. Senators Amara M….
MONROVIA – The Senate’s resistance to abolishing jury trials now has a reform blueprint. Senator Edwin Melvin Snowe, Jr. has joined Senators Konneh, Dillon and…
There are some lessons a nation must never forget, some roads a people must never travel again, and some wounds that must forever remind us of the terrible pric…
MONROVIA, October 19, 2026 — Acting Grand Gedeh County Superintendent Christopher B. Bailey has blamed factional politics for the absence of the county’s lawmak…
MONROVIA — Senator Amara Konneh’s recent appeal for the United States to impose Global Magnitsky sanctions on individuals allegedly enabling questionable mining…
Monrovia – A top legal officer at the Liberian Senate could soon take home US$2,920 a month. That is roughly 20 times what the law guarantees an unskilled Liber…
A Senate committee wants US$792,552 in the FY2027 budget for pay raises inside the Senate, with 70 percent going to senators’ personal offices. With half of Lib…
A birthday tribute from Emmanuel D. Gonquoi, the leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters of Liberia (EFFL), has sparked reflections on an important political er…
Monrovia: Voter education plays a crucial role in informing the electorate about the importance of participating in elections. It promotes effective organizatio…
MONROVIA – The Executive Branch is enforcing Liberia’s new Cybercrime Law before setting up the Cybersecurity Council and the specialized cybercrime team the ac…
MONROVIA – The Liberia Council of Churches warned Tuesday that the prosecution in the Saudi rice case must not become “political revenge,” days after a jury con…
CAPITOL HILL, October 14, 2026 – Senate Pro Tempore Nyonblee Karnga-Lawrence has disclosed that a special legislative committee is investigating allegations of…
CAPITOL HILL, October 14, 2026 – House Speaker Richard N. Koon has urged members of the House of Representatives to resolve their differences through internal d…
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…
CAPITOL HILL, Monrovia — Speaker Richard Nagbe Koon presided over a House of Representatives session attended by 62 lawmakers on Tuesday, October 13, as the cha…
New York: The Republic of Liberia has reaffirmed its commitment to the complete eradication of colonialism in all its forms and manifestations.
WASHINGTON, DC — A Liberian senator has told American democracy advocates that his country faces two threats at once: multinational mining companies working thr…
BREWERVILLE, Montserrado County, Liberia, Oct. 12, 2026 — A prominent Liberian clergyman has backed growing calls for a “third lane” in the country’s politics a…
Today marks the first day for official business as members of the Legislature return from their second constituency break, but with uncertainty hanging over one…
MONROVIA – Montserrado county Senator Abraham Darius Dillon has taken issue with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Liberia Yamie Quiqui Gbeisay over his…
Senator Questions Selective Justice, Drug Investigations, Tenured Officials’ Removal, and Transparency Over Foya Housing Project
The ghosts of Liberia’s previous speakership conflict are back to haunt the very political establishment that rose from its aftermath.
MONROVIA, LIBERIA – Liberia’s House of Representatives is staring down another potentially bruising leadership crisis, as discontent over unpaid legislative ben…
MONROVIA, Liberia — As members of the House of Representatives intensify demands for the payment of their delayed salaries and benefits, governance advocate And…
