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MONROVIA, LIBERIA – The Liberia Revenue Authority (LRA) has officially launched its Corporate Strategic Plan (CSP) 2025–2029, outlining a five-year roadmap to s…

MONROVIA — Liberia is expected to cross the US$1 billion mark in domestic revenue collection by September, Finance and Development Planning Minister Augustine K…

MONROVIA — The long-awaited trial over the alleged mishandling of a Saudi Arabian rice donation is set to open Wednesday, August 19, following the completion of…

MONROVIA — The Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) has condemned what it describes as the harassment, intimidation, detention and alleged fabrication of charg…

MONROVIA — Former Liberia National Police (LNP) senior officer Johnny Bolar Dean has rejected claims that he was dismissed from the police force over armed robb…

MONROVIA — Former Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor has been formally charged in connection with an alleged transnational narcotics trafficking network, markin…

MONROVIA, LIBERIA – Pressure is mounting on Liberia National Police Inspector General Gregory O.W. Coleman to step aside from the country’s ongoing investigatio…

MONROVIA, LIBERIA — Liberia is on the verge of crossing the US$1 billion mark in domestic revenue collection for the first time in the country’s 179-year histor…

ABUJA, NIGERIA — The West African Tax Administration Forum (WATAF) on Tuesday, August 18, launched the Strengthening Tax Administration Capacity Project in West…

MONROVIA – Former Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor on Wednesday, August 19, 2026, headed to the Liberia National Police (LNP) headquarters with her lawyers af…

MONROVIA — Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Cllr. Augustine Chea has sharply questioned the decision by the Liberia National Police to invite Gbarpolu County Se…

MONROVIA — The Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) has condemned the reported invitation of Gbarpolu County Senator Amara M. Konneh by the Liberia National Po…

MONROVIA – The Liberia National Police has formally demanded that Gbarpolu County Senator Amara Konneh produce evidence to substantiate a series of serious alle…

MONROVIA – The widening controversy surrounding Liberia’s multimillion-dollar cocaine investigations has taken a new turn, with Gbarpolu County Senator Amara Ko…

MONROVIA – The Government of Liberia has confirmed an arrangement with the United States to receive up to 1,200 third country nationals being transferred from t…

NEW YORK – Liberia has joined seven other members of the United Nations Security Council in calling for stronger and more coordinated action to address the grow…

MONROVIA – The Liberia Revenue Authority’s latest revenue performance has drawn praise from transparency advocate Anderson Miamen, who has welcomed the governme…

KAKATA, MARGIBI COUNTY – Flow Day, in partnership with the We Dream In Color Foundation– USA, has officially launched the distribution of sanitary pads to rural…

MONROVIA – Gbarpolu County Senator Amara Konneh has intensified calls for an independent investigation into Liberia’s sprawling cocaine scandal, warning that ac…

MONROVIA – The Central Bank of Liberia has raised fresh concerns over the health of the country’s banking sector, warning that a sharp rise in non-performing lo…

UNITED NATIONS — Liberia has issued one of its strongest warnings yet on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, telling the United Nations Security Council that cont…

CONAKRY, GUINEA – Liberia has received commendation as one of West Africa’s leading examples of progress in tobacco taxation, using fiscal policy to help safegu…

-As They Go to the Polls on Saturday, August 15, 2026

MONROVIA – A political dispute over Liberia’s response to the narcotics crisis has escalated into a public exchange involving Deputy Information Minister Daniel…