Liberia, Aug. 9 -- Jackson K. Kolako says he was detained for six days after resisting an unlogged, after-hours visit to an inmate linked to Liberia's multi-million-dollar narcotics case By Rodney D.... Read More
Monrovia, Aug. 7 -- The operation that shut down Private Bar on Wednesday looked, from the outside, like a raid built to send a message. Heavily armed security officers blocked access to the premises ... Read More
Liberia, Aug. 7 -- He came to swear in judges and court marshals. He left having delivered the most direct public warning of his presidency - to drug traffickers, yes, but also, if the words are taken... Read More
Monrovia, Aug. 7 -- Coleman's statement, posted to his personal Facebook page, reads less like a routine institutional update and more like a man answering a question nobody asked him directly, becaus... Read More
Liberia, July 31 -- Before George Weah said a word about the presidency, he asked the room to be quiet. A gospel singer partisans knew and loved, Minister Miracle Kettor, had died since the party last... Read More
Liberia, July 24 -- This one hit close to home. Johnny Bolar Dean was in the circle of the Inspector General of Police, Gregory Coleman. His arrest and dismissal Thursday came as a shock, not just to ... Read More
Liberia, July 23 -- Oumou Hage has learned to expect delay. Not a denial, exactly - nobody has told her outright that she can't have the money her late husband set aside for her medical care. Just del... Read More
Liberia, July 21 -- At dawn on a Friday in December, officers of the Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency forced their way into a house on Duport Road. A Facebook Live stream, shot by someone inside, caugh... Read More
Liberia, July 21 -- There's a line about Liberia that gets repeated so often it has hardened into fact: alone among African nations, it was never colonized. Fred van der Kraaij doesn't buy it, and he'... Read More
Liberia, July 20 -- When members of Liberia's House of Representatives voted on April 17 to expel Montserrado District #10 lawmaker Yekeh Kolubah, securing the constitutionally required two-thirds maj... Read More