Monrovia, March 18 -- The Government of Liberia(GoL) has announced that while it is making efforts to ensure the steady supply of essential commodities amid the ongoing tensions involving the United States, Israel and Iran, it cannot guarantee control over rising prices on the local market.

Speaking Tuesday during the Ministry of Information's regular press briefing, Information Minister Jerolinmek Matthew Piah acknowledged mounting economic pressure, noting that both economic and commercial activities are being affected by the global crisis.

"As the global situation is ongoing with regard to the war in the middle east, as a country we continue to thread very carefully so that the repricution on our own economic and other activities are...