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NEW YORK, UNITED STATES – Liberia has warned the United Nations Security Council that repeated failure to turn its decisions into action is weakening the instit…

MONROVIA, LIBERIA – Activist Martin K. N. Kollie says the Supreme Court of Liberia has overturned a US$50,000 damages judgment previously entered against him, g…

SANNIQUELLIE, NIMBA COUNTY – Liberia’s public higher education sector could be entering a new era of collective action after faculty organizations from public u…

MONROVIA, LIBERIA – The Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) has rejected President Joseph Nyuma Boakai’s recent national address on Liberia’s fight against il…

MONROVIA, LIBERIA – President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has framed Liberia’s public procurement system as a pathway for citizen participation in national development,…

MONROVIA, LIBERIA – The University of Liberia has reaffirmed students’ right to protest and criticize university decisions while warning that freedom of express…

MONROVIA, LIBERIA – A Supreme Court ruling in favor of former LISGIS official Wilmot Smith has placed the protection of confidential banking information under i…

MONROVIA, LIBERIA – A more than decade-long legal battle over the alleged loss of approximately US$6 million in government revenue has culminated in prison sent…

MONROVIA, LIBERIA – The Supreme Court of Liberia has affirmed the conviction of Enree Bee Neeplo, Program Manager of the Planned Parenthood Association of Liber…

MONROVIA, LIBERIA – Senator Amara Konneh has challenged the Liberian government to move beyond drug seizures, official suspensions and public destruction of con…

MONROVIA, LIBERIA – Liberia has taken the plight of seafarers directly into the United Nations Security Council’s debate over the war in Ukraine, warning that a…

MONROVIA, LIBERIA – The Alternative National Congress (ANC) has called for an independent and impartial investigation into Liberia’s ongoing transnational cocai…

MONROVIA, LIBERIA – President Joseph Boakai has delivered one of his strongest defenses yet regarding the government’s ongoing fight against illegal drugs, asse…

MONROVIA, LIBERIA – Liberia’s Supreme Court is preparing to deliver a potentially consequential judgment in a long-running criminal case involving former senior…

MONROVIA, LIBERIA – Information Minister Jerolinmek M. Piah has strongly rejected claims that Liberia is sliding into tyranny following the criminal proceedings…

MONROVIA, LIBERIA – Liberia’s record-breaking cocaine seizures have triggered fresh questions about the vulnerability of the country’s security and law-enforcem…

There is something profoundly symbolic about Liberia celebrating its 179th National Flag Day at a time when the country is being asked to confront some of its m…

National celebrations are often filled with beautiful words.

PORT HARCOURT, NIGERIA – Former Liberian President George Manneh Weah’s warning to African leaders about the dangers of weakening democratic institutions has tr…

MONROVIA, LIBERIA — In a poignant moment in court on Tuesday, former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor was overcome with emotion as Judge Ben Barco announced h…

MONROVIA, LIBERIA – A Monrovia City Court writ of arrest has formally placed former Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor at the center of a sweeping criminal inve…

GANTA, NIMBA COUNTY – The Liberia Revenue Authority (LRA), through its Customs Department, has begun the second phase of a weeklong refresher training in Ganta,…

MONROVIA, LIBERIA – Former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor has been transferred to the Monrovia Central Prison after the Monrovia City Court denied a request…