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MONROVIA - Liberia wants mining and energy investment, but who will do the work? GeoMining & Environmental Consultancy Inc. used LIMEC 2026 to press that question. The firm, which calls itself 100 percent Liberian-owned, argues that…

MONROVIA - A banking law is only as strong as the judge who interprets it. That is the logic behind the Central Bank of Liberia’s latest move. In Ganta, the CBL has trained judges on the new Banking and Financial Institutions Act.…

MONROVIA - The opposition’s fight with the Boakai administration has moved from the campaign podium to the courtroom door. Jefferson T. Koijee, the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) Secretary General, accuses the government of…

MONROVIA - West Africa has learned that elections are won or lost long before voting day. That lesson frames the ECOWAS parliamentary mission that Liberia's Senator Edwin Melvin Snowe Jr. led to The Gambia. The delegation met ministers,…

MONROVIA - Liberia's officials preach faith in national institutions, yet many educate their children abroad. Mohammed Salue Sy put that contradiction before the whole country at a high school commencement. At the St. Simeon Baptist School…

MONROVIA - Every new concession brings jobs to Liberia, but often not to Liberians. Dr. Emmanuel K. Urey Yarkpawolo began his argument with one foreign railway engineer he met on a flight. From that encounter he builds a case for a…

TODAY, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2026, Liberia, the continent of Africa and the global democratic community pause to honor an extraordinary statesman, a pioneering reformer and a global icon of female empowerment. As former President Ellen…

MONROVIA - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf marks her 88th birthday in the company of Mandela, Nkrumah and Nyerere. A global index, The Data of Everything, lists her among Africa’s 20 most influential leaders of all time. Eighteen of its 20 names are…

MONROVIA - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has used her standing as a Nobel laureate to make a pointed choice. Devex reports that she has nominated the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for the Nobel Peace Prize. The agency…

MONROVIA - Birthday tributes to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf are plentiful, yet Benjamin Sanvee’s letter stands apart. He calls her both his mentor and his mother. He credits her with debt relief, rebuilt infrastructure and a peaceful transfer of…