November 14, 2022
Liberia: Liberian Senate Raises Concerns Over Mining Sector Amid Widespread Illicit Activities
The Liberian Senate is seeking information from the Ministry of Mines and Energy regarding the operation of the small to medium-scale mining sub-sector. Read more »
Liberia: Liberia Edges Towards Corporate Transparency As LEITI), LBR Set to Launch Beneficial Ownership Registry
A Beneficial Ownership (BO) regime is poised to begin in Liberia. It would help to curtail tax evasion, fight frauds and other forms of corruption, the national steering committee… Read more »
Liberia: Senate Passes Controlled Drugs Law
The Plenary of the Liberian Senate has passed into law the 'Controlled Drug and Substances Act of 2014". The Senate took the decision in its Session last Thursday, November 10,… Read more »
Liberia: Liberians Express Disappointment in Failure to Commence Census Despite Declaring Holiday, but Govt Says It Was Politicized
After living in Buchanan, Grand Bassa County for 10 years, Philip Korkollie, 64, recently returned to his native Bong County keen to take part in a population census whose findings… Read more »
November 09, 2022
Liberia: Fact-Check - FDA Exposes Itself in Defending Illegal Export Permits
FDA cites violations of previous administrations, including an ex-head of the institution who is being prosecuted over forestry's worst postwar scandal Read more »
Liberia: Senate Cites Minister of Finance and Public Works to Explain East International Contract Details
The plenary of the Liberian Senate has cited authorities of the Ministries of Finance and Development Planning, Public Works, Mines, Energy, Natural Resources & Environment as… Read more »
Liberia: Convicted War Criminal Appeals Paris Guilty Verdict
Lawyers for Kunti Kamara, a Liberian war criminal who was convicted by a French court last week for his role in the country's first civil war, have appealed his landmark judgment.… Read more »
November 08, 2022
Liberia: Tax Research-Based Center Launched in Liberia
In a move to educate and encourage Liberians and business institutions to pay their taxes a non-governmental tax research institution, Tax Research Action and Development (TREAD)… Read more »
November 07, 2022
Liberia: FDA Alerts Security Uncovers Illegal Logging Activities, Seeks Security Agencies, Public Cooperation
The Forestry Development Authority (FDA) says it has uncovered chains of clandestine and unwholesome acts of illegal harvesting and processing of logs around the country,… Read more »
Africa: Africa's Parliaments Committees of Public Account Adopts Monrovia Declaration Recommitting Member States to the Fight Illicit Financial Flow
Delegates at the weeklong conference of Africa's Parliaments Committees of Public Account have concluded with an adoption of a declaration that recommits Parliaments across Africa… Read more »
Liberia: NEC Threatens to Take EKEMP to Court If They Continue to Proceed Wrongly
The acting chairperson of the National Elections Commission (NEC), Cllr. Teplah Reeves, says the NEC would take EKEMP International to court if it proceeds with its unauthorized… Read more »
Liberia: Charlyne Brumskine Alarms Threat Over Her Life for Recognizing Bility, Kollah
Cllr. Charlyne Brumskine says she has received numerous threats from members of the Liberty Party since she declared her intention to the chairman of the party, Musa Bility, to… Read more »
November 04, 2022
Liberia: NEC Does Not Follow the Constitution of Liberia
With the illegal political partisan campaigning already started for the 2023 General and Presidential Election, there is a lot of hala hala about what the National Elections… Read more »
November 07, 2022
Liberia: Delayed Population Census, Controversial Biometric Voter Roll Bid Process Could Cause Conflict - ECC and Leon Observes
The Elections Coordinating Committee (ECC) and the Liberia Elections Observation Network (LEON) say the delay in the conduct of the national population census and the manner in… Read more »
Liberia: Hopeful Sign for Justice for Civil War-Era Crimes
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch & International Federation of Human Rights Hail Kunti Kamara's Conviction for Atrocities in Liberia Read more »
Liberia: Man Arrested One Year After Killing Fiancée and Dumping the Body Into a Swamp
Issac Mulbah, 34, is facing trial for allegedly killing his fiancée, Grace Kollie. He reportedly dumped her corpse in a swamp in Peter Town Community in Mount Barclay… Read more »
November 04, 2022
Liberia: Foya Victims Celebrate Kamara Conviction
Evelyn Pillo points to the spot where her father's house once sat. It was here that her family endured the horrors that, she says, haunt them to this day. In 1993 when troops with… Read more »
November 03, 2022
Liberia: French Court Sentences Liberian Warlord to Life Imprisonment
A French court has convicted and sentenced Liberian warlord Kunti Kamara to a life sentence for complicity in crimes against humanity, torture and barbarism following a dramatic… Read more »
November 02, 2022
Liberia: Legislature, Executive Flipflop Over Census Date Amid Chaotic Recruitment Process
The Government of Liberia has failed to live up to its commitment signed in a joint resolution to conduct Liberia's much delayed National Population and Housing Census (NPHC). Read more »
Liberia: Court Issues Arrest Order for Indicted 27-Year-Old Man Charged With Power Theft, Economic Sabotage
The Gardnersville Magisterial Court on Tuesday, November 1, 2022, issued a writ of arrest and imprisoned a 27-year-old man identified as James Tamba for stealing LEC Meters and… Read more »
November 01, 2022
Liberia: Prosecution Wants Accused Warlord Given Live Imprisonment
Prosecutors in the war crimes trial of Kunti Kamara, an accused Liberian warlord have asked the French jury hearing his case to find him guilty of all the charges he's accused of,… Read more »
Liberia: Regional Civil Society Group Wants Stronger Action to Protect Indigenous Peoples Land Against Transnational Corporations
A West African Regional Civil Society Body 'Friends of the Earth Africa' (FoEA) through the NGO Forum has stressed the need for institutions, such as the working group on… Read more »
Liberia: Legal Action Hangs Over Lina & Others On Allegation of False Report
Lawyers representing Alexander Berrian, Comptroller of Stella Maris University have refuted media reports that their client was arrested for alleged rape by an officer of the… Read more »
Liberia: Time to Speak Out On This Sanctions Issue
It has been days, weeks and months since the Sanctions arrived. We were happy that it came so that we can have some accountabilities for people's actions and to checkmate those… Read more »
Liberia: Female Genital Mutilation - a Menace or Culture
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), otherwise known as Female Circumcision, is an age-old cultural practice that is carried out in many African countries. Here in Liberia, it is done… Read more »