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Liberia Beats Back Solway Claim to Nimba Licence, Mittal's Hold Secured

MONROVIA, Sept. 24 -- The Government of Liberia has defeated the heart of Solway Mining's claim over the disputed Blei and Detton iron ore area in Nimba County. An international arbitration tribunal r... Read More


Liberia: Gov't Says Ex-VP Howard-Taylor Broke House Arrest; Another Official Calls The Raid Routine; Her Lawyer Calls It Humiliation

MONROVIA, Sept. 24 -- The sheriff's deputies came on Tuesday evening. By the time they left the former Vice President's residence, the house had gone quiet in a new way. There was no desktop computer ... Read More


Liberia: Kwarbo Family Rejects Statement Linking IG Coleman to US$317 Million Drug Case; "I will not be intimidated", IG Says

MONROVIA, Sept. 24 -- The family of detained former Highway Patrol Chief Wadell Kwarbo has rejected claims that he told a source he escorted a van linked to a US$317 million drug case on the orders of... Read More


Liberia: Agriculture Ministry Disputes Its Budget Line as Cattle Deaths Mount

Monrovia, Sept. 23 -- Grand Kru County has not had a working cattle herd in a generation. Its old county ranch is mostly memory now - cleared pasture reclaiming itself, pens that haven't held an anima... Read More


Liberia: Police Reject VP's Plea, Charges Wrato on Four Cybercrime Counts

MONROVIA, Sept. 22 -- The Liberia National Police (LNP) has concluded its investigation into Jerry Nyantee Wrato and will forward him to court on four cybercrime charges, rebuffing a public appeal fro... Read More


Liberia's Cybercrime Law Faces Its First Real Trial as VP Koung case exposes Liberia's widening fault lines

Monrovia, Sept. 21 -- The arrest of Jerry Nyantee Wrotto, a young man accused of cyberbullying Vice President Jeremiah Kpan Koung Sr., and the Vice President's subsequent request for his release have ... Read More


Liberia: LDEA Testing Clears Malaysia Shipment

Monrovia, Sept. 21 -- A shipment that triggered alarm this weekend over suspected cocaine and heroin has tested negative for narcotics, the Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency says, in a reversal that cle... Read More


Liberia: New Charging Rule Confronts a System the U.S. State Department Has Long Flagged as Broken

Liberia, Sept. 21 -- A new order from the Solicitor General requiring prosecutor sign-off before police can charge a suspect lands against a backdrop the U.S. State Department has documented for years... Read More


Liberia: Suspected Narcotics Shipment From Malaysia Under Testing at Roberts Airport Amid Growing Trafficking Concerns

Liberia, Sept. 19 -- A 202.5 kg shipment declared as botanical powder, coffee and candy - sent from Malaysia and cleared through Roberts International Airport customs - is now being tested for narcoti... Read More


The Price of a Vote: What Liberia's Smallest UN Bill Says About Its Biggest Claims

Monrovia, Sept. 18 -- There is a number so small it barely registers on the ledger of a $3.45 billion organization: $34,000. It is the least any nation on Earth can be asked to pay the United Nations ... Read More