Liberia's City Streets in Limbo

MONROVIA, Liberia, Nov. 13 -- In Liberia's county capitals, paved streets have been promised many times. This year, the money was finally set aside. The pavement has not followed. By Rodney D. Sieh ... Read More

What Benoni Urey's Role on Dangote's ECOWAS Business Council Means for Liberia

MONROVIA, Nov. 13 -- Three decades ago, Liberia needed West Africa's soldiers to help end its civil war. Today, it has a chance to help shape the region's economic future. By Rodney D. Sieh Benoni W... Read More

Liberia's Judges Sound the Alarm on Their Own Courts

MONROVIA, Liberia, Nov. 12 -- In late August, two pregnant women walked out of Monrovia Central Prison, the overcrowded jail on the Atlantic shore that Liberians call South Beach. Kebbeh Pewee and Ann... Read More

Boakai Seals City Hall Shake-up as FPA Reported; NPP Chairman Battling Jewel Taylor Lands Gov't Job

Monrovia, Nov. 12 -- President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has nominated James Kpadeh Mulbah, General Manager of the Roberts International Airport (RIA), as Mayor of the Monrovia City Corporation (MCC), confi... Read More

Washington's Blunt Verdict on Liberia's Investment Climate

MONROVIA, Nov. 11 -- On paper, Liberia has rarely looked better. The economy grew 5.1 percent in 2025, mining and panning expanded by 17 percent, export volumes jumped 31.5 percent, and headline infla... Read More

Five Years, $25.6M Pledged: West Point Still at the Mercy of the Atlantic

Monrovia, Nov. 11 -- At West Point, the sea works to its own timetable, and it is not waiting for anyone. The crowded fishing township sits on a narrow spit of sand where the Mesurado River meets the... Read More

A US$1.54 Billion Budget, but Lawmakers' Fuel Costs More Than the Nation's Medicines

MONROVIA, Nov. 10 -- Liberia's government is preparing to spend more money than at any time in its history. The draft national budget for fiscal year 2027, prepared by the Ministry of Finance and Deve... Read More

How Liberia ignored a World Bank warning while its neighbors built their way past port gridlock

Liberia, Nov. 10 -- Nine years ago, a World Bank study warned that West Africa's container traffic would nearly triple by 2025 and that existing ports could not cope. Cote d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Beni... Read More

Liberia: Record Billions at the Top, Rising Hunger at the Bottom

MONROVIA, Liberia, Nov. 9 -- In central Monrovia, where vendors line the sidewalks with trays of biscuits, chocolate and soap, the national budget is not measured in billions. It is measured in how ma... Read More

Liberia: RIA Port Manager James Mulbah Tipped to Replace Siafa as Monrovia City Mayor; Shake-up comes amid mounting criticism of Siafa's stewardship - and longstanding complaints that government has starved the city corporation of fund

Monrovia, Nov. 9 -- FrontPageAfrica has reliably learned that James K. Mulbah, General Manager of the Roberts International Airport (RIA), is set to replace John-Charuk Saah Siafa as Mayor of the Monr... Read More

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