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Jackson F. Doe Hospital Expansion Signals Liberia's Push to Decentralize Specialized Healthcare

Liberia, Aug. 31 -- The Government of Liberia is advancing plans to expand specialized healthcare services outside Monrovia with a major upgrade of the Jackson F. Doe Memorial Regional Referral Hospit... Read More


Liberia: Cummings Demands Speedy, Fair Trial for Howard-Taylor, Accuses Government of 'Selective Justice'

Monrovia, Aug. 31 -- Political Leader of the Alternative National Congress, Alexander Benedict Cummings, has called on the Government of Liberia to ensure a speedy and fair trial for former Vice Presi... Read More


Liberia: What a Secretly Recorded 'Gift' Call - and the Koffa Precedent - Mean for the Case against Jewel Howard Taylor

Liberia, Aug. 31 -- Liberian law is openly hostile to secret recordings. A Monrovia courtroom let one in anyway earlier this year, in the Capitol arson case against former Speaker J. Fonati Koffa, and... Read More


African Civil Society Leaders Say the Global Aid System Is Broken; 200 Gather in Accra This Week to Create a New Africa-Led Model

Liberia, Aug. 31 -- Summary: By Tetee Gebro, gender and health correspondent with New NarrativesIn the four years to 2023 the European Union spent $16 million to boost the systems that would keep Lib... Read More


Follow The Law on The Books, Then Ask What the Tape Actually Proves

Liberia, Aug. 31 -- Liberia's Constitution and Penal Code already say what should happen to a secretly recorded conversation. A precedent set in one courtroom this year should not quietly rewrite that... Read More


Liberia: A Nation Finally Writes its Own Story

Liberia, Aug. 31 -- The Historical Society of Liberia has launched a 24-volume Presidents Biography Series - one book for every Liberian head of state since 1848. The first volume, on Edwin Barclay, i... Read More


Gongloe Calls for National Relief Fund for Victims of Liberia's Brutal Civil Wars

Monrovia, Aug. 31 -- Renowned human rights lawyer and former presidential candidate Cllr. Tiawan Saye Gongloe has called for the establishment of a National War Victims Relief Fund to provide medical,... Read More


Liberia: Supreme Court Clears Way for Enforcement of Judgment in Urban Marketing-Tubman Estate Dispute

Liberia, Aug. 31 -- Monrovia- The Supreme Court of Liberia has dismissed an appeal in the long-running legal dispute involving Urban Marketing Group, through its Chief Executive Officer Allen R. Brown... Read More


Liberia: CMC Rejects CDC Invite To Attend Roundtable For Opposition Leaders

Monrovia, Aug. 31 -- The opposition Citizens Movement for Change (CMC) has rejected an invitation from the former ruling Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) to attend a roundtable for opposition poli... Read More


Liberia: LACC Marks 18th Anniversary, Pushes Prevention, Prosecution, and Recovery of Stolen Assets

Monrovia, Aug. 31 -- The Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission has celebrated its 18th anniversary with renewed calls for stronger prevention of corruption, institutional collaboration, prosecution, and ... Read More