YEKEPA, Nimba County — All 41 students from the ArcelorMittal Liberia school system who took the 2026 West African Senior School Certificate Examination passed,…
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Maryland: After A Century in Darkness, Gedetarbo Breaks Ground for Electricity Project
GEDETARBO, Maryland County — Work has begun on a project to bring electricity to Gedetarbo, a town in Pleebo-Sodoken District that has never had a stable power…
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Liberia: Cavalla Plantation Robbery: Gunmen Steal US$200,935Armed Robbers Seize US$200,935 in Cavalla Plantation Payroll Raid
PLEEBO, Maryland County — Armed men broke into the Cavalla Rubber Plantation before dawn on Sept. 1, injured three security officers and made off with about US$…
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Liberia: NEC Needs More Than US$75M to Prepare for 2029 Elections
MONROVIA — The National Elections Commission needs more than US$75 million over the next five years to rebuild the systems that will run the 2029 general electi…
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Liberia: Kromah Vows Drone and Satellite on Illegal Mining Sites
MONROVIA — Liberia will deploy drones, satellite reconnaissance and joint military and police units against illegal mining sites nationwide, seizing dredges, ex…
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Liberia: Alex Grant PPCC Nomination Draws Scrutiny Over Record
MONROVIA — President Joseph Boakai has nominated Grand Gedeh County Superintendent Alex Chersia Grant to help oversee integrity in government contracting, selec…
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Liberia: Private Bar Owner Offered LDEA Agents US$100K, Indictment Says
MONROVIA – A grand jury has charged that George Wah Harria, alias Leroy Harris, owner of Private Bar Entertainment Center at Joe Bar in Paynesville, offered US$…
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Liberia: Court Summons Rwandan Expert in Peter Bon Jallah Rape Trial
MONROVIA – A forensic examiner from Kigali has been ordered to appear in Monrovia to testify against a former National Security Agency official accused of rapin…
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Liberia: Gbarney Residents Accuse Mining Firm of Contaminating Creek
GBARNEY, Bong County – More than 1,300 people in this Jorquelleh District town, Bong County, are drawing drinking water from a single working hand pump, two yea…
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HARPER, Maryland County – Patients in Liberia’s southeast who once had to travel to Monrovia to find out what was wrong inside them can now be diagnosed in Harp…
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PAYNESVILLE – Former President George Weah accused the Boakai administration of tampering with justice in the drug case against the woman who served as his vice…
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Liberia: President Boakai Removes Justice Minister Tweh, Solicitor General Amid Drug Case
MONROVIA – President Joseph Nyuma Boakai on Wednesday removed both officials directing the state’s prosecution of former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor, rep…
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Ellen Hails Yarkpawolo for Transforming EPA, Putting National Service Above Personal Comfort
MONROVIA — Former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has praised Environmental Protection Agency Executive Director Dr. Emmanuel K. Urey Yarkpawolo for what she de…
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“Disagreement Should Never Be Weaponized’: Kemokai Defends Minister Tweh Amid Drug Bust Allegations
MONROVIA — The special assistant to Justice Minister and Attorney General Cllr. N. Oswald Tweh has mounted a strong defense of his boss amid allegations seeking…
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Dillon Gives IGP Coleman Until Week’s End to Fire, Prosecute Johnny Dean Over US$10,000 Bribe
MONROVIA — Montserrado County Sen. Abraham Darius Dillon has given the Inspector General of Police until the end of this week to dismiss and prosecute the deput…
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MONROVIA — Information Minister Jerolinmek M. Piah has sharply rebuked Bong County District #3 Representative Marvin Cole over comments linking the prosecution…
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MONROVIA — Nimba County District 7 Rep. Musa Hassan Bility says he is considering going to court to force an audit of the Legislature, telling a radio audience…
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Youth Minister Says Employed Workers Took Cadet Stipends, Promises to Name Them And Recover The Money
MONROVIA — Civil servants and private-sector employees enrolled in the government’s National Cadet Program and drew the US$150 monthly stipend reserved for stud…
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MONROVIA — Medicines regulation will extend beyond Monrovia to all 15 counties by the first quarter of 2027, and a pharmaceutical waste disposal site has alread…
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SUNU Assurances Opens New Sinkor Office, Eyes Expanded Customer Service in Liberia
MONROVIA — SUNU Assurances Liberia Limited has opened a new office on 13th Street in Sinkor, Monrovia, as the insurance company moves to expand accessibility, i…
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Sweden has closed its embassy in Monrovia and ended its bilateral development assistance to Liberia. What has departed is not merely a donor and a diplomatic fl…
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Third Bond, Third Setback: Court Gives Bundoo’s Surety 30 Days to Find US$1.34m
MONROVIA — Nora Finda Bundoo’s sureties have until Oct. 1 to produce another US$1,342,280, after Criminal Court ‘C’ ruled Tuesday that the third bond filed for…
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MONROVIA — Liberia’s cocoa and coffee farmers risk losing the market that buys about 65% of their crop, because the country still has no farm mapping, geolocati…
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Jewel Howard-Taylor Seeks One-Day Court Delay, Citing Illness And Need For Medical Examination
MONROVIA — Former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor, held at the Monrovia Central Prison on cocaine trafficking charges, wants her preliminary examination push…