MONROVIA, Oct. 9 -- For months, Mark Egon Kuiah's name has hovered over Liberia's cocaine scandal without ever quite landing. By Rodney D Sieh He ran operations at Roberts International Airport, the... Read More
Monrovia, Oct. 9 -- The Central Bank of Liberia (CBL) has kept its benchmark Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) unchanged at 16.0 percent but has raised the share of US dollar deposits commercial banks must k... Read More
MONROVIA, Oct. 9 -- Liberia's special envoy for cultural and heritage diplomacy has been invited to the opening of a national memorial in Barbados honoring 570 enslaved West Africans buried at a forme... Read More
MONROVIA, Oct. 8 -- When officers raided a compound on Cement Road in the VOA Community on July 21, they found 3,971 "plates" of the drug, packed in 157 bags and valued at about US$317 million. By Ro... Read More
MONROVIA, Oct. 7 -- For decades, Liberia's economy has leaned on the same narrow pillars: iron ore, rubber, timber and, more recently, gold. Raw materials leave the country, and finished goods come ba... Read More
Monrovia, Oct. 5 -- When the Government of Liberia charged former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor in August, officials spoke with confidence. The state said it had the evidence. It said the case wa... Read More
Monrovia, Oct. 5 -- The last time a major oil company drilled off Liberia's coast, much of the money never touched Liberian soil. By Rodney D. Sieh When ExxonMobil drilled the Mesurado-1 well in lat... Read More
Liberia, Oct. 5 -- Three Liberians living in Minnesota are among ten immigrants indicted by a U.S. federal grand jury for allegedly voting or registering to vote while not citizens. Prosecutors say mo... Read More
MONROVIA, Oct. 2 -- For many Liberian and Sierra Leonean families, the SN Brussels flight is more than a ticket. Brussels Airlines, still called "SN" by most travelers here after the carrier it succee... Read More
Monrovia, Oct. 2 -- Dr. Carolyn Baindu Moore built her career in the United States as a robotic thoracic surgeon, operating on the chest with some of medicine's most advanced tools. In December, she i... Read More