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 »
Liberia: Eight Drown - Two Killed in Nimba After Canoe Capsizes
At least eight persons have drowned when a canoe capsized in Zahn Bowyee Town, in electoral district # 8 in Nimba County. Read more »
Liberia: Parents Blast Schools, Education Ministry for 'Compelling Students to Abandon Class for Political Rally
UNIFICATION CITY, Margibi County - Angry parents have expressed disappointment in the Margibi County School System and the Ministry of Education for forcing their children out of… Read more »
October 28, 2022
Liberia: Accused Warlord Calls Plaintiffs Criminals in Paris War Crimes Trial
Kunti Kamara has lashed out at the ten plaintiffs in his trial for crimes against humanity here calling them "criminals" and professing his innocence on charges of cannibalism,… Read more »
October 26, 2022
Liberia: Supreme Court Associate Justice-Designate Says He's Not Aware of the Constitutionality of the Law Requiring Assets Declaration
Judge Yarmie Quiqui Gbeissay, the man who is poised to take on the position of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court has claimed not to be aware of the law requiring him to… Read more »
Liberia: No Contract Has Awarded - NEC Chair Speaks On Biometric Supplies Contract
The chair of the National Elections Commission Madam Davidetta Brown-Lansannah says the Commission has not awarded the contract for the supply of biometric materials and equipment… Read more »
Liberia: Court Abruptly Adjoins As Inconsolable Witness Reflects On Alleged Rape and Ill-Treatment By Kamara's Soldier On Emotional Day of Trial
The judge in the ongoing war crimes trial of Kunti Kamara abruptly adjourned the hearing on Tuesday after an inconsolable witness began a graphic description of her alleged rape by… Read more »
Liberia: Senate Grills Commerce Minister On Who Misinformed the President On Rice Availability Despite Acute Shortage
The Senate on Tuesday hosted the Minister of Commerce Mawine G. Diggs to answer questions about the shortage of the country's staple food, rice and why President George Weah was… Read more »
October 25, 2022
Liberia: National Civil Society Council Requests Full Participation in Remaining Census Activities Amid Chaotic Recruitment Exercise
The National Civil Society Council of Liberia (NCSCL) has called for the inclusion of civil society in the remaining phases of the planning and conduct of Liberia's first digital… Read more »