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WORLDMONROVIA – Liberia’s House of Representatives has ordered a sweeping review of salaries and benefits across government, days after a rare public disclosure of a senior official’s pay reignited anger over the cost of running one of the world’s poorest countries. By Emmanuel Weedee-Conway In a…
WORLDA Liberian judge convicted a former national security aide of statutory rape and kidnapping but cleared him of gang rape. Four days later, his lawyers filed a motion arguing that the two halves of the ruling cannot both stand. By Rodney D. Sieh MONROVIA — When Judge Wesseh Alphonsus Wesseh Sr.…
WORLDA coalition of civil society groups says signing long-term contracts under Liberia’s 2000 mining law would lock in the weak oversight, lost revenue and pollution that have marked the sector for decades. MONROVIA, Liberia — A coalition of civil society organizations in Liberia has called on the…
WORLDMONROVIA – A prominent Liberian lawyer and leading figure in the Grebo community has called for calm and a swift investigation into the death of Samuel Gekor, a young Grebo man found dead on a cassava farm near Zwedru, the capital of southeastern Grand Gedeh County. Gekor’s body was discovered in…
WORLDMONROVIA – President Joseph Nyuma Boakai will open a two-day international mining and energy conference on Wednesday, as Liberia steps up efforts to attract foreign investment into the natural-resource sectors that underpin its economy. The Liberia International Mining and Energy Conference and…
WORLDZWEDRU, Grand Gedeh County — Sixteen years after Liberia enacted the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act of 2010, a new survey conducted by the Independent Information Commission (IIC) has revealed significant gaps in public awareness of the law in Grand Gedeh County, with 87.6% of 1,875 respondents…
WORLDAgriculture Ministry Advances Government’s Drive Toward Mechanized Farming, Increased Food Production, and National Food Self-Sufficiency MONROVIA — Liberia’s ambitious journey toward agricultural modernization and national food self-sufficiency has received another significant boost as the…
WORLDMONROVIA – Calm has returned to Waterside Market, one of Monrovia’s busiest trading hubs, after government officials assured traders that the market will not be cleared, a day after hundreds marched on the Ministry of Public Works fearing eviction. The standoff began when about 15 iron selling…
WORLDPresident Boakai performs a symbolic groundbreaking while LPRC officials and others look on. President Joseph Nyuma Boakai on Monday, October 26 broke ground for a US$35 million expansion and modernization of the Liberia Petroleum Refining Company (LPRC)’s Product Storage Terminal, stating that the…
WORLDSanniquellie City, Nimba County- Police in Sanniquellie City, Nimba County have arrested and jailed Armstrong Gobac Selekpoh, a former senatorial candidate in the 2022–2023 Nimba County Elections after a creditor accused him of failing to repay a loan of nearly US$14,000. By D. Franklin Doloquee…