Liberia: Commerce Minister Designate Plan Meets a Market That Isn't Waiting

MONROVIA, Oct. 23 -- Stephen M. Yekeson Jr. told senators Wednesday that he wants to be "judged by what is delivered." His confirmation statement gives the Senate one promise it can test within 100 da... Read More

Liberia: Supreme Court Hears Kolubah's Appeal Against Expulsion Today; Five Other Cases on Docket

Monrovia, Oct. 22 -- The full bench of the Supreme Court of Liberia is scheduled to hear arguments today, Thursday, October 22, 2026, in former Montserrado County District #10 Representative Yekeh Y. ... Read More

Liberian Senate's Own Papers Bury Its Denial

MONROVIA, Oct. 21 -- On Monday, the Liberian Senate under the leadership of Pro Temp Nyonblee Karnga-Lawrence, called FrontPageAfrica's reporting on a staff salary plan "false," "misleading" and "fabr... Read More

Liberia: Snowe Seeks Audit Over Alleged Kickbacks in Bomi, Presses Education Ministry on School Closed Three Years

Monrovia, Oct. 21 -- Bomi County Senator Edwin Melvin Snowe, Jr. has called for an urgent, independent audit of local government spending in the county, citing allegations that some officials are spen... Read More

Liberia Bets Its Future on Iron, Gold and Power

MONROVIA, Oct. 20 -- For most of the past half-century, Liberia's mineral wealth has been a story told in the past tense. In the 1960s and 1970s, iron ore from the Nimba and Bong ranges made this smal... Read More

Leijdekkers' Shadow Over Liberia's Cocaine Probe Grows Harder to Ignore

MONROVIA, Oct. 19 -- For most of this year, Jos Leijdekkers has lived in Liberia as a whisper. Security officers traded sightings no one could pin down: a convoy on the Bo Waterside road, a boat slipp... Read More

At Church Where Liberia Was Born, Rev. Samuel B. Reeves Urges Nation to Break With Its Past

MONROVIA, Oct. 19 -- One of Liberia's most prominent clergymen used his Sunday pulpit to challenge the West African nation's leaders and citizens to stop letting past failures dictate the country's fu... Read More

Liberia: The Jury Debate - "A Corrupt Jury Is Worse Than No Jury." But What About a Judge Who Has Already Spoken?

MONROVIA, Oct. 15 -- When Chief Justice Yamie Quiqui Gbeisay Sr. rose to open the Supreme Court's October Term on Monday, he did not deliver a routine ceremonial charge. He delivered an indictment of ... Read More

Liberia's Council of Churches warns justice "must not become political revenge" as ex-ministers convicted in Saudi aid case and Chief Justice floats scrapping jury trials

MONROVIA, Oct. 14 -- Liberia's most influential Christian body has called on the government, the courts and the country's political class to keep politics out of the courtroom, days after a jury convi... Read More

Liberia's Charlyne Brumskine Elected President of ECOWAS Court of Justice

ABUJA, Nigeria, Oct. 14 -- Liberian lawyer and law professor Charlyne M. Brumskine was elected president of the Community Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on ... Read More

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