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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


Liberia: LNP Launches New Recruitment Drive, Betting on Numbers and Reform to Rebuild Public Trust

Liberia, Sept. 18 -- Inspector General Gregory O.W. Coleman has launched a new Liberia National Police recruitment exercise, framing it as central to nearly two decades of post-war security sector ref... Read More


Liberia: 2 Billion Tons of Ore- Switches Back to AMR

Liberia, Sept. 17 -- The Putu Timeline Sept. 2010: Government ratifies 25-year Mineral Development Agreement with Severstal 2011-12: Severstal buys out partner Afferro Mining, takes 100% control via... Read More


How Liberia's Milestone Billion-Dollar Revenue Took Shape

Liberia, Sept. 17 -- Monrovia- At a customs desk in Monrovia, a clerk stamps another form before 9 a.m. In a mining camp outside Kokoyah, a payroll officer wires a wage tax remittance she's processed ... Read More


What Liberia's Historic Revenue Milestone Means - and Doesn't Mean - for Ordinary Liberians

Monrovia, Sept. 16 -- Liberia is celebrating a number. For the first time in the country's 179-year history, domestic revenue collection has pushed past US$1 billion in a single year - a figure Presid... Read More


Liberia: How South American Cartels Found a New Home on West Africa's Coastline

Liberia, Sept. 16 -- Monrovia- For a few years after 2010, West Africa was, in the words of officials who fought to make it so, a hard place to move cocaine through. That reputation is now being teste... Read More


Liberian Officials Post Vulnerable Children's Data to "Prove" Aid Programs Work

Monrovia, Sept. 14 -- In Liberia, showing your work used to mean something simple - a photo of a handshake, a ribbon-cutting, a smiling child holding a new backpack. This week, several government offi... Read More


Liberia: A Mystery Vessel, a Prison, and a Warning Nobody Answered

MONROVIA, Sept. 11 -- There is a version of this story in which the boat behind the Monrovia Central Prison is nothing more than a stray vessel, pushed toward shore by the tide and forgotten within da... Read More