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Beyond the $1B Milestone: Liberians React to Historic Revenue Gains, Demand ‘Real Impact’

Monrovia – Over the past few days, FrontPage Africa reporters have traveled across Liberia — from the market corridors of Monrovia and Paynesville to the trading cities of Kakata in Margibi...

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Beyond the $1B Milestone: Liberians React to Historic Revenue Gains, Demand ‘Real Impact’

Monrovia – Over the past few days, FrontPage Africa reporters have traveled across Liberia — from the market corridors of Monrovia and Paynesville to the trading cities of Kakata...

Liberia: A Coalition of African Civil Society Groups Demands Control of Development Money. But...

Summary A coalition of African civil society leaders are pushing donors to give African organizations and communities more control over development money as traditional foreign aid shrinks. They are also...

The Price of a Vote: What Liberia’s Smallest UN Bill Says About Its Biggest...

Monrovia - There is a number so small it barely registers on the ledger of a $3.45 billion organization: $34,000. It is the least any nation on Earth can...

Liberia: DNA Links Bon Jallah to Evidence, But Rwandan Expert Says Tests Can’t Show...

Forensic report also flags unidentified DNA on toilet paper found at the scene MONROVIA – A Rwandan forensic expert testified Wednesday that DNA profiles recovered from four exhibits in the...

Liberia: Three years in, Rep. Wongbe’s Development Record is Challenging Nimba’s Party-driven Politics

NIMBA COUNTY – There is a version of Nimba County politics that has held for a generation. Influence flows through party structures, and party structures flow through a handful of dominant personalities....

Liberia: Senator Snowe Convenes NPP Leaders, Suspended Partisans in Unity Talks

MONROVIA – A private residence in the ELWA community in Paynesville became the setting for a pivotal internal conversation within the National Patriotic Party...

Liberia: Saclepea Mayor Under Fire After Admitting GOL Awarded MDR Contract in Nimba, Then Backtracks

SACLEPEA, Nimba County — In Saclepea, Nimba County, the promise of newly paved streets should ordinarily be a welcome development. Instead, a government road project...

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A $200 Million Lost Opportunity: Turning Liberia’s natural-resource windfalls into national wealth

THE GOVERNMENT of Liberia recently received a $200 million signature bonus from ArcelorMittal in connection with the extension of its Minerals Development Agreement. Under...

A Billion Dollars Means Nothing if Bread & Butter Issues not Addressed

LIBERIA HAS DONE something it has never done before. For the first time in 179 years, the government has raised more than a billion...

Minister Ngafuan Says Increased Revenue Means Greater Capacity to Deliver for Liberians

Monrovia – The Minister of Finance and Development Planning, Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan, has clarified that Liberia’s achievement of the US$1 billion domestic revenue threshold...

How Liberia’s Milestone Billion-Dollar Revenue Took Shape

Monrovia- At a customs desk in Monrovia, a clerk stamps another form before 9 a.m. In a mining camp outside Kokoyah, a payroll officer...

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Liberia: When Silence Meets a Shutdown: The New Totota School Crisis No One Acted On Until It Went Viral

MONROVIA – According to an unconfirmed report reaching FrontPage Africa, the Ministry of Education has ordered a suspension of academic activities at New Totota Public School after a photo showing students...

Liberia: FAWE Liberia Trains Recruitment Committee to Expand Tertiary Education Access for Marginalized Youth

MONROVIA — The Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) Liberia Chapter has conducted a refresher training and induction exercise for members of its National...

Liberia: ‘Tubman University Is A  Symbol of Liberia’s Resilience After War’ — Says MFDP Minister Ngafuan

HARPER, Maryland County — The Minister of the Ministry  Finance and Development Planning(MFDP),  Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan, has described William V.S. Tubman University as a symbol...

Liberia’s Democratic Future Requires Competent, Principled, and Diplomatically Prepared Leadership

President Joseph Nyuma Boakai — competent and principled public service“I believe serving at the highest level is an obligation; it means that through you,...

A Billion-Dollar Budget Is Not a Billion-Dollar Economy

Liberia should welcome stronger revenue collection—but celebrating taxation without transforming the economy risks mistaking the government’s growing wallet for the prosperity of its people. By...

FIFA-Backed Projects Fuel Growth of Youth Football in Liberia

MONROVIA — Youth football in Liberia is experiencing renewed growth, with a series of projects supported by FIFA helping to expand playing facilities, grassroots...

Liberia: Van Dave Harmony Makes Winning Debut for Eagles FC in the Maldives

Monrovia — Liberian striker Van Dave Harmony made a promising competitive debut for Eagles Football Club in the Dhivehi Premier League, helping his new...

Foreign Relations

Analysis

MONROVIA — There is a version of this story in which the boat behind the Monrovia Central Prison is nothing more than a stray vessel, pushed toward shore by the tide and forgotten within days. By Rodney...

Liberia’s Opposition Tries Unity Again

Three years out from a vote nobody has scheduled yet, Liberia's opposition parties gathered under George Weah's roof to try, for a third time this decade, to do what has never once held: stay together. The...

Liberia: What Comes Next for Jewel Howard-Taylor

MONROVIA - Eleven days after she was led into Monrovia Central Prison, Jewel Howard-Taylor went home on Thursday — but not to freedom. Under an order signed by Criminal Court "C" Judge Ousman F. Feika, the...

Elections

Liberia: Expert Warns of Security Risks if Legislature Fails...

Summary Transitional justice expert Aaron Weah warns that failure to approve legislation establishing Liberia’s long-delayed War and Economic Crimes Court could create new security risks, particularly among a young generation...

Liberia: Dhaliwal Presses Boakai to Recall Legislature for War...

MONROVIA — With Liberia’s long-promised transitional justice agenda still awaiting decisive legislative action, advocate Mme. Marpu Dhaliwal is calling on President Joseph Nyuma Boakai  Sr. to take the unusual step of...

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Crime Watch

Human Rights

Monrovia – Human rights defenders in Liberia are facing increasing threats ranging from intimidation, online harassment and gender-based violence to physical attacks, while a long-awaited national protection policy remains stalled, participants at the ENSURE Project Policy Dialogue...

Liberia: ‘Protect Those Who Defend Rights’: New Research Exposes Mounting Threats to Human Rights Defenders as Liberia Urged to Fast-Track Protection Policy

Monrovia – Human rights defenders in Liberia are facing increasing threats ranging from intimidation, online harassment and gender-based violence to physical attacks, while a long-awaited national protection policy remains stalled, participants at the ENSURE Project Policy Dialogue...

Liberia: The EU spent $16 million to help rape victims get justice, but paralyzed legal system convicts just 2 rapists in 6 years

Summary: A 57-year-old grandmother in Todee District says she was raped in January. Seven months later, her case has not been heard, no government official has visited her, and the family of the accused has approached her with money...

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