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Liberia: A Mystery Vessel, a Prison, and a Warning Nobody Answered

MONROVIA, Sept. 11 -- There is a version of this story in which the boat behind the Monrovia Central Prison is nothing more than a stray vessel, pushed toward shore by the tide and forgotten within da... Read More


Liberia: Boakai Shuffles Cabinet: New Acting Defense, Commerce Ministers; Gender Deputy Suspended

Monrovia, Sept. 11 -- President Joseph Nyuma Boakai Sr. has shaken up several government ministries and agencies, announcing a wave of new appointments this week. Cllr. Oswald Natu Tweh takes over as... Read More


BREAKING: Second Mystery Vessel Seized in Liberia, Two Foreign Nationals Held Amid Drug Probe

Liberia, Sept. 10 -- Liberia's joint security forces are in control of yet another mysterious vessel - this time docked behind the Monrovia Central Prison - where two foreign nationals linked to ongoi... Read More


Liberia's Opposition Tries Unity Again

Liberia, Sept. 8 -- Three years out from a vote nobody has scheduled yet, Liberia's opposition parties gathered under George Weah's roof to try, for a third time this decade, to do what has never once... Read More


Liberia: What Comes Next for Jewel Howard-Taylor

MONROVIA, Sept. 7 -- Eleven days after she was led into Monrovia Central Prison, Jewel Howard-Taylor went home on Thursday - but not to freedom. Under an order signed by Criminal Court "C" Judge Ousma... Read More


Co-Defendant Challenges Judge's Ruling Granting Ex-VP Taylor House Arrest, Calls It Unlawful

MONROVIA, Sept. 5 -- A day after Criminal Court "C" ordered former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor moved from Monrovia Central Prison to guarded house detention on medical grounds, a co-defendant i... Read More


Liberia: A Justice Ministry Reset:Cleaner Prosecutions, or More Politically Fraught Ones?

MONROVIA, Sept. 4 -- President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has replaced his Minister of Justice and Attorney General, along with his Solicitor General, hours after former President George Weah returned to Lib... Read More


Liberia: In US$19m Cocaine Case: 10 Indicted Over 200kg Haul, US$100k Bribe Plot

MONROVIA, Sept. 3 -- A Montserrado County Grand Jury has indicted 10 defendants in connection with the alleged trafficking of a 200-kilogram cocaine shipment through Roberts International Airport (RIA... Read More


One Woman, half a Billion Dollars: The Question Liberia's Drug Investigation hasn't Answered

Liberia, Sept. 2 -- As former President George Weah touches down in Monrovia, the two record-breaking drug busts that started this saga - nearly half a billion dollars combined - have quietly gone sti... Read More


Liberia: What a Secretly Recorded 'Gift' Call - and the Koffa Precedent - Mean for the Case against Jewel Howard Taylor

Liberia, Aug. 31 -- Liberian law is openly hostile to secret recordings. A Monrovia courtroom let one in anyway earlier this year, in the Capitol arson case against former Speaker J. Fonati Koffa, and... Read More