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MONROVIA - Relations between mining companies and the communities that sit at their fences are rarely described in warm terms in Liberia, which is what makes the assessment offered this month in Leegbanla Village worth setting down in…

MONROVIA - Monetary policy announcements seldom carry ceremony, but the reading of the July 2026 Communiqué at the Central Bank of Liberia carried two of them at once. The Executive Governor used the occasion to mark the National…

MONROVIA - Illegal fishing costs West Africa more than its governments can measure, and Liberia has spent three days in Monrovia trying to close the gap between what happens in its waters and what its institutions see. The National…

MONROVIA - Amid growing public concern over Liberia's escalating drug crisis, the civil society movement STAND has intensified pressure on the government by demanding an independent investigation—preferably led with U.S. support—into the…

MONROVIA - A dramatic courtroom reversal has turned a former presidential aide into a pretrial detainee overnight. By rejecting Nora Finda Bundoo's bonds and raising her bail to US$8 million, Criminal Court C has signaled uncompromising…

MONROVIA - A simmering standoff at Liberia's flagship university has reached a delicate turning point. University of Liberia President Layli Maparyan has publicly acknowledged faculty and staff grievances while warning against any…

MONROVIA - Three years ago, no institution in Liberia could say with scientific certainty what the nation’s citizens were breathing; today, that data not only exists but has earned the country a place on the world stage, after the United…

MONROVIA - The Fellowship of Christian Councils and Churches in West Africa (FECCIWA) has added its voice to a rising chorus of continental outrage over the wave of xenophobic and Afrophobic attacks sweeping South Africa, expressing what…

MONROVIA - Former Finance Minister Samuel D. Tweah, Jr. has leveled an extraordinary and unverified accusation against Vice President Jeremiah Koung. In a Facebook post, Tweah claims Koung instructed Judge Ousmane Feika to overturn his…

MONROVIA - ArcelorMittal Liberia's (AML) assessment of 218 Grand Bassa residents represents more than routine recruitment; it tests a model. The Learning Ability Battery (LAB) approach deliberately bypasses formal academic credentials,…