July 21

• Liberia: Philip Banks Fails the Smell Test - Liberia's Associate Justice's Ruling Under Scrutiny [editorial]

  THE SUPREME COURT is the final arbiter of legal justice in Liberia. It has immense power over our lives. It is essential that its ethics and impartiality are unimpeachable. But now... Read more »

• Liberia: Liberia's 166th Independence Anniversary Kicks Off With Investiture Ceremony

  The Liberian Government has conferred honors on 13 distinguished individuals, one of them posthumously, thus kick-starting the official celebrations of Liberia's 166th Independence... Read more »

• Liberia: Liberia's Constitutional Review Committee Opens Suggestion Boxes

  Monrovia - The Constitution Review Committee (CRC) over the weekend launched Suggestion Boxes to give Liberians a chance to form part of the reviewing process and form part of the... Read more »

• Liberia: Fondly Remembering the Good Old Days - Revisionists Attempt to Change Liberian History [opinion]

  Sadly, selective amnesia seems to characterize the thought processes of a few people who fondly remember the good old days of Liberian history in the periods preceding 1980. I wish... Read more »

• Liberia: Liberian Council of Churches Briefs Sirleaf On Reconciliation, April 12 Protesters

  A five-member delegation of the Liberian Council of Churches (LCC) met with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Friday, July 20, to update her on the organization's operations, its... Read more »

• Liberia: 'Grand Gedeans Were Part of Cross Border Attack', Insider State Witness Claims

  Startling revelations have begun to surface about the alleged involvement of several Grand Gedeh citizens in the cross-border attack along the Ivorian border that led to the death... Read more »

• Liberia: Assisting Disadvantaged Girls, Sirleaf Rededicates YWCA Girls Hostel

  President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has rededicated a well-furnished girl's hostel built by the Young Women's Christian Association of Liberia (YWCA) in Monrovia. Read more »

• Liberia: Prevention Is a Must - Cut No Corners, Nocal [opinion]

  There has been a lot of hullabaloo lately about the Safety Health and Environmental Protection and Training (SHE) contract between the National Oil Company of Liberia (NOCAL) and... Read more »

• Liberia: U.S. Medical Association Presents Sirleaf With Lifetime Humanitarian Award

  A four-man delegation of the National Medical Association (NMA) of the United States of America, headed by its 113th President, Dr. Rahn K. Bailey, on Friday, July 19, presented... Read more »

• Liberia: Liberia 5th Highest in Baby Deaths, 'Difficult Problems' Linger

  Tiny Pewee Wamah tries to hold the piece of boiled cassava his mother hands to him, but his tiny trembling hands soon let go and the cassava falls to the bright red earth. The... Read more »

• Liberia: High Court Ruling in FPA Vs. Chris Toe Case Is Bogus, Unconstitutional [opinion]

  The Supreme Court last week delivered a judgment granting a motion to dismiss the appeal filed before it by FPA (FrontPageAfrica) newspaper challenging a $1.5 million dollars... Read more »

July 20

• Liberia: Use Education to Build, Never to Destroy - to Edify, Never to Tear Down'

  William Nyanue, an accomplished Professional Engineer and community leader who works for Donohue & Associates in Chicago, Illinois, USA, as Civil/Hydraulic Engineer addressed... Read more »

• Liberia: 'Fostering Transparency' - Full Text of EU-Liberia Chief's Statement On Budget Support [document]

  Remarks By Mr Attilio Pacifici EU Ambassador, Head of the European Union Delegation to Liberia End of Budget Year (2012/2013) Dialogue Session Organized By Liberia Media Center in... Read more »

• Liberia: Oil Chief Clarifies 'Conflict of Interest'

  The Chief Executive Officer and President of the National Oil Company of Liberia Dr. Randolph McClain has clarified his relationship with his former employer American chemical... Read more »

July 19

• Liberia: 'Democracy Sustainability Bill May Spark Unrest' in Liberia, Says Liberty Party Chair

  Counselor Fonati Koffa, a managing partner of the International Law Group and head of the opposition Liberty Party has warned that giving the National Elections Commission... Read more »

• Liberia: Liberia's Internal Affairs Ministry Cautions Against Cutting in Sande Bush [press release]

  The attention of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has been drawn to reports of occurrences of physical attacks and forceful initiations of people into cultural or traditional... Read more »

• Liberia: European Union Warns Liberia On Budget Support - 'Key Element for Good Governance'

  The Head of the European Union Delegation to Liberia has warned that there cannot be EU budget support to any EU partner nations including Liberia without open, transparent,... Read more »

• Liberia: State of the Liberian Economy

  Officials of Government present Our Development Partners Members of Civil Society Organizations Our esteemed colleagues in the Media Fellow Liberians Distinguished Ladies and... Read more »

• Liberia: 'I Was Not Asked About U.S.$13 Million, Liberia's Health Minister Sets Record Straight

  The Minister of Health and Social Warfare Dr. Water T. Gwenigale says during his appearance before the House committee on ways, means and finance to defend his Ministry's budget... Read more »

• Liberia: Conflict of Interest - Prejudice & Bias in Liberia's High Court Opinion Verdict [opinion]

  History has come full circle in Liberia in the wake of this week's opinion ruling in the case of former Agriculture Minister Dr. J. Chris Toe and the FrontPageAfrica newspaper. Read more »

• Liberia: Liberia's Economy 'Stable and Sound', Finance Minister Discloses New Policies

  Liberia's Finance Minister, Amara Konneh said the country's economy remains stable and sound with a growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of around 8%, and also disclosed new... Read more »

• Liberia: Foreign Donors Alert - Do Not Give Liberia's Judicial Branch a Penny [editorial]

  Only those with money and power appear to be getting their cases heard in court, the poor are languishing in poverty and neglect from a system lacking political will, swimming in... Read more »

• Liberia: Still Threat to U.S. Security - Obama Extends Taylor-ERA Emergency On Liberia

  U.S. President Barack Obama says although Liberia has made advances to promote democracy, and the Special Court for Sierra Leone recently convicted Charles Taylor for war crimes... Read more »

July 18

• Liberia: U.S.-Based Liberia Press to Boycott Finance Minister Konneh [editorial]

  The management of Issues in the Press reloaded wishes to announce that it will not host Finance Minister Amara Konneh as special Guest on its july 27th edition. The management... Read more »

• Liberia: Reappointment of Monrovia Mayor Rejected By Senate

  The Plenary of the Liberian Senate Thursday finally passed a vote of no confidence in former Acting Monrovia City Mayor Mary Broh who was re-nominated by President Ellen... Read more »