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Liberian Officials Post Vulnerable Children’s Data to “Prove” Aid Programs Work

Monrovia - In Liberia, showing your work used to mean something simple — a photo of a handshake, a ribbon-cutting, a smiling child holding a new backpack. This week, several government...

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Liberia: VP Koung says Liberia must move from NPL conference promises to reforms that...

MONROVIA — The Liberian government is moving to confront the country’s non-performing loans (NPLs) problem with the establishment of a National Non-Performing Loans Task Force, in a bid to...

Liberia: Business Executive Stephen Yekeson Takes Over Liberia’s Commerce Ministry

MONROVIA, Liberia — Liberia’s Commerce Ministry gets a new face today as businessman and former Deputy Public Works Minister Stephen Marka Yekeson Jr. assumes the acting ministerial post, bringing with...

Liberian SMEs Urged to Seize Regional Markets as Accelerate 360 Dialogue Ends

Monrovia, Liberia — Liberian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have been urged to take advantage of regional and international trade opportunities while improving the quality, management and marketability of locally...

Liberian Officials Post Vulnerable Children’s Data to “Prove” Aid Programs Work

Monrovia - In Liberia, showing your work used to mean something simple — a photo of a handshake, a ribbon-cutting, a smiling child holding a new backpack. This week,...

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 has become the subject of an increasingly...

Liberia: Koijee Challenges Property Claims, Demands Answers From NPP Chairman Mulbah

Monrovia — Former Monrovia City Mayor Jefferson Koijee has pushed back against competing claims surrounding a property in Monrovia that he says was publicly...

Liberia:  Unity Party Youth Chairman In Nimba Resigns

The Youth Chairman of Liberia’s ruling Unity Party (UP) in Nimba County, Samuel L. Kartee, has resigned from both the party and his leadership...

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EDITORIAL: Stop Using Vulnerable Children as Proof of Government Work

THERE IS A special kind of carelessness in believing that good intentions excuse bad judgment. This week, several Liberian officials — including Mo Ali,...

Editorial: There is a point at which coincidence stops being a credible explanation, and Liberia crossed it this week

IN JUNE, THE country watched a vessel — the IB Atlantic IV — sit off Grand Cape Mount County for the better part of...

Liberia: CBL, Commerce Ministry Push SMEs to Turn Market Opportunities into Growth as Liberia Expands Access to Finance

Paynesville — Access to finance, business readiness and stronger partnerships between entrepreneurs and financial institutions dominated discussions on the second day of a national...

Liberia: Ngafuan Highlights Gains in Health, Education and Energy, Admits More Work Remains

Monrovia - In an appearance on the state-owned Liberia Broadcasting System, Liberia's Minister of Finance and Development Planning, Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan, walked Liberians through...

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Former Maryland Quizzer Donates to Team, Pledges Help After Poor Living Conditions Exposed

MONROVIA — A former Maryland County quizzer and coach, Freddie Goe, has donated US$35 to the county’s quizzing team following reports about the difficult conditions under which the players are staying...

Sleeping on the Bare Floor: Maryland Quizzing Team Battles Hardship for National Glory

MONROVIA — Despite defeating Bong County 130 points to 100, a 30-point margin, in their first encounter at the ongoing National Quizzing Tournament, Maryland’s...

Liberia: LINSU Launches Second National Quizzing County Meet

MONROVIA – The Liberia National Students Union (LINSU) has launched the second edition of its flagship academic competition, the Liberia National Quizzing County Meet...

Taxation by Default: A former Assistant Commissioner for Tax Policy examines how currency depreciation quietly increased the tax burden on US-dollar earners—and how the...

How a falling currency raised personal income taxes without an act of the Legislature If you earn United States dollars in Liberia, your income tax...

Stanton Witherspoon Is Free But How Can a Man Who Never Went to Prison Have His 41-Month Sentence Reduced to “Time Served”?

The extraordinary journey from a 41-month federal prison sentence to freedom — and why what happened in that Florida courtroom may matter far beyond Stanton Witherspoon himself. For almost three years, Stanton Witherspoon lived with a 41-month federal prison sentence hanging over him. By Derek M. Moore, contributing writer He had pleaded...

Boakai Pledges US$3M Annual Subsidy for Lone Star as Liberia’s Football Financing Crisis Comes Under Scrutiny  

Monrovia — President Joseph Nyuma Boakai Sr. has promised to allocate no less than US$3 million annually to Liberia’s national football team, the Lone...

Erradi Faces First Real Test as Lone Star Names 25-Man Squad for Rwanda, Mali Fixtures

Monrovia — Lonestar head coach Mohammed Erradi has unveiled a 25-man roster for Liberia’s back-to-back 2027 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifying fixtures against...

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...

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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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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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