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Liberia: Suspended Monrovia Central Prison Deputy Superintendent Alleges Irregular Arrest, Names Officials in Public Statement Tied to Drug Case

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


How a Paynesville Nightspot Became Ground Zero in Liberia's Cocaine Case

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: Boakai On Drug Scandal - 'We Will Find You' - But Will The Courts Deliver?

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


Liberia: IG Coleman Rejects Any Ties To Liberia's Cocaine Cartel

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: Weah's Comeback Speech Lands in the Middle of Liberia's Biggest Drug Scandal Yet

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: How a Police Intelligence Chief Almost Compromised Biggest Drug Case With US$10K Bribe

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: Oumou Hage Just Wants To See A Doctor; Courts Keep Making Her Wait

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's Arrest Gap Goes Beyond One Case as Opposition Frowns on Deepening Contrasts in How the UP-led Government Handle Cases, Investigations, Trials

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: Dutch economist Fred van der Kraaij's New Book Unravels A Fifty-Year Investigation Rewriting the Republic's Founding Myth

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: Yekeh's Expulsion Tests Free Speech Commitment - What Are The Odds He Returns To The Legislature?

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