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Liberia: Rural Farmers Extol BRAC Liberia for 'Meaningful' Food Security and Rural Capacity Building Project

MONROVIA, March 5 -- Rural farmers from Montserrado, Bong, and Nimba Counties are expressing deep gratitude to BRAC Liberia for its pivotal support through its food security and rural capacity buildin... Read More


Liberia: House Summons Finance Minister Over Delay in Submission of 2024 Draft Budget

Liberia, March 1 -- The House of Representatives has extended an invitation to Minister of Finance and Development Planning, H. Boima Kamara, to appear before its full plenary and provide insights int... Read More


Two FIA Staff Goba, Leamah File US$2.5M Lawsuit Against Former Boss, others For Damages

Monrovia, March 1 -- Amos T. Goba and Cooper Leamah have filed a lawsuit against Edwin Harris, the former Director General of the Financial Intelligence Unit, now the Financial Intelligence Agency, al... Read More


Liberia: House Investigates 'Bureaucratic Bottlenecks' In Liberian Export, Import Sector

Liberia, Feb. 28 -- The House of Representatives has unanimously voted to task its Committee on Commerce, Contract, and Monopoly with investigating the "bureaucratic bottlenecks" plaguing Liberia's ex... Read More


Liberia: Speaker Fonati Koffa Defends Passage of Special Budget: 'I Cannot Withhold Civil Servants' Salaries'

Liberia, Feb. 26 -- House Speaker Cllr. Jonathan Fonati Koffa has clarified that the House of Representatives made the right decision to pass the President's special budget to save the government from... Read More


Liberia: House Summons Presidential Affairs, Finance Ministers to Give Account of President Boakai, VP Koung's Recent Travel Expenses

Liberia, Feb. 23 -- Plenary, the highest decision make body of the House of Representatives, has cited the Ministers of State for Presidential Affairs and Finance and Development Planning to give full... Read More


ECOWAS' Last Surviving Founding Father Urges Regional Bloc to Lift Sanctions on Coup-Hit Nations

Monrovia, Feb. 23 -- Yakubu Gowon, former head of state of Nigeria and one of the architects behind the establishment of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), has called for the remo... Read More


Liberia: Dismissed officials at GAC, NIR, LTA, Others Planning Lawsuit Against UP -led government

MONROVIA, Feb. 22 -- When President Boakai mounted the podium on January 22, 2024 to give the most important speech of his life right after his swearing in by Chief Justice Sie-A-Nyene Gyapay Youh, he... Read More


Liberia: Rep. Bility Expresses Dismay over House's Decision to Grant President Boakai's Budget Approval Request

Liberia, Feb. 22 -- Representative Musa Hansan Bility (District #7, Nimba County), has expressed his disappointment and frustration over the House of Representatives' decision to grant President Josep... Read More


Liberia: House Approves President Boakai's Request for US$41.3M, Snubs Rep. Bility's Call for Rejection

Liberia, Feb. 21 -- The House of Representatives has given the green light to President Joseph Boakai's plea to authorize US$41.3 million for immediate use this February, averting a potential governme... Read More