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MONROVIA - A Sunday prison visit intended as a personal show of solidarity with detained former Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor has widened into a blunt political challenge to the government’s handling of Liberia’s deepening narcotics…

MONROVIA - By hosting the Africa College of Bishops Meeting for the first time, Liberia gains a continental platform. The United Methodist gathering centers faith, leadership and institutional reflection. Thirteen active bishops, five…

MONROVIA - Former President George Manneh Weah’s effort to bring Liberia’s opposition leaders around one table has received a significant response, with Citizens Movement for Change Political Leader Musa Hassan Bility formally accepting an…

MONROVIA - President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has placed his administration’s credibility squarely on two promises under public examination: that Liberia’s drug crackdown will spare no powerful person, and that former Vice President Jewel…

MONROVIA - Liberia’s drug investigation has reached the point where arrests alone can no longer secure confidence, especially when state institutions and security actors have themselves appeared in allegations surrounding the trafficking…

Justice Minister N. Oswald Tweh has declared an offensive against drug trafficking, but his address also conceded the institutional weakness at the centre of Liberia’s cocaine crisis: seizures demonstrate enforcement success while…

MONROVIA - Liberia’s increasingly troubling cocaine saga has crossed the Atlantic and entered the corridors of the United States Congress, with a Washington-based justice organization asking lawmakers to investigate whether transnational…

MONROVIA - A former vice president has traded the corridors of power for a cell in the Monrovia Central Prison. A city court has ordered Jewel Howard-Taylor jailed while facing sweeping drug-trafficking, conspiracy and money-laundering…

MONROVIA - A prominent women's rights body has turned a former vice president's illness into a test of Liberia's conscience. The Angie Brooks International Centre has publicly praised the police for rushing former Vice President Jewel…

MONROVIA - A president's life has been recast as a teaching text aimed squarely at Liberia's young. The relaunch of President Joseph Nyuma Boakai's biography, From Foya to the Capitol, doubled as the launch of a wider ambition. Its…