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, 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
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, 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, 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
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
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, 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
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
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