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MONROVIA - The Press Union of Liberia (PUL) marked its 62nd anniversary by reading out a charge sheet. President Julius Kanubah listed a year of arrests, summonses, threats and prison sentences against journalists. Those named included…

MONROVIA - The World Bank has told Liberian journalists their work is part of national infrastructure. Country Manager Georgia Wallen made the case at the Press Union of Liberia’s (PUL) 62nd anniversary. She placed credible journalism…

MONROVIA - President Joseph Nyuma Boakai took his government’s report card to Liberians abroad. At a town hall in Olney, Maryland, he asked the Diaspora to move from dialogue to delivery. His request was concrete: skills, investment and…

MONROVIA - George Manneh Weah turns 60 on October 1, and he has chosen prayer over a party. The former president is turning his birthday into a Day of Prayer for Liberia. His party cites the hardship many Liberian families now face. The…

MONROVIA - Liberia writes a new development plan almost every time it changes government. Dr. Emmanuel K. Urey Yarkpawolo wants that habit broken by law. The Environmental Protection Agency chief proposes a 25-year national framework,…

DULLES, Virginia – President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has taken his U.S. schedule to the office that keeps Liberia’s flag on the world’s oceans. He visited the Virginia office of the Liberia International Ship and Corporate Registry (LISCR).…

MONROVIA - Former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor has spent 41 days under state restraint. That duration has become a constitutional question in its own right. Legal experts trace the sequence from her August 19 arrest to house arrest…

MONROVIA - The opposition’s unity push has run into a pointed challenge from within its own ranks. Musa Hassan Bility leads the Citizens Movement for Change (CMC). He rejects any claim that opposition belongs to the Congress for Democratic…

MONROVIA - President Joseph Nyuma Boakai, Sr. has handed Liberians abroad a test with a deadline. At the 2nd Annual Diaspora Conference in Alexandria, Virginia, he asked what last year's nine recommendations achieved. He then set out five…

MONROVIA - Five opposition parties have put their case against the Boakai administration on one signed page. The joint communiqué, issued Sunday after a second roundtable, signals a more coordinated opposition. It spans the Guinea border…