October 25, 2022
Liberia: FDA Reacts Daylight Publication On Illegal Timber Export Permit Issuance
Forestry Development Authority, has reacted to a recent publication by the DayLight's titled, "FDA's Managers Issue Illegal Timber Export Permit" failed to provide factual… Read more »
Liberia: U.S. Coast Guard to Review Continual Improvement in Liberia's Port Security Program
On the morning of October 24, 2022, the Liberia Maritime Authority, as Designated Authority of Liberia's International Port Security Program held meeting with a delegation from the… Read more »
Liberia: Court Issues Writ of Arrest On NIC Program Manager Andrew Anderson for Assaulting His Wife
The Paynesville Magisterial Court has issued a Writ of Arrest for Andrew Anderson, Program Manager at the National Investment Commission (NIC) for harassment, domestic violence,… Read more »
Liberia: Police Graduates 24 Security Officers for LTC Mobile
In preparations for the kind of services and the commencement of being one of the GSM service providers, the Liberia National Police Academy (LNPA), through an intensive… Read more »
Liberia: Police Charge George Kailondo Jr. With Assault After Shooting His Friend
George Kailondo, Jr, son of prominent Liberian businessman George Kailondo, Sr, has been charged in connection with the illegal possession of a firearm, while Khalil Bongary, owner… Read more »
October 24, 2022
Liberia: An Eye for an Eye - A Desperate Response to Violence Against Women
11 Year-Old Likely to Suffer Fistula after Forceful Genital Cutting Went Wrong in Sande Bush" was the scary caption of a story of callous cruelty published in the October 19, 2022… Read more »
Liberia: Results of 2022 Population Census At Risk As Enumerators Express Disenchantments
The outcome of the ensuing National Population and Housing Census in Liberia risks being inadequate as a result of the growing wave of disenchantments and misunderstanding which… Read more »
Liberia: 22 Affected Communities File Historic Petition for Declaratory Judgment Against Salala Rubber Corporation and the Liberian Government
Residents of 22 indigenous Kpelle communities, dispossessed of their customary land, cultural sites, and livelihoods, have filed a groundbreaking legal action against the Salala… Read more »
Liberia: Defence Witness Kosiah Dismisses Cannabalism Charge Against Kamara
Alieu Kosiah, convicted of war crimes in a Swiss court last year, appeared as a defense witness in the trial of Kunti Kamara, his one-time United Liberation Movement of Liberia for… Read more »
Liberia: St. Peter's Lutheran High School Punishes Three for Being in Possession of Drugs
Administrative Body of St. Peter's Lutheran High School, situated at 14th Street, Sinkor, Monrovia, is withholding the Graduation Diplomas of three members of the School's… Read more »
October 21, 2022
Liberia: Senate Invites LEITI to Provide Update On Extractive Sector and Challenges
The Liberian Senate has invited the Secretariat of the Liberia Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (LEITI) to appear before Plenary constituted in a Committee of the Whole… Read more »
Liberia: 11-Yr-Old FGM Victim's Ordeal Prompts Deputy Speaker Koffa to Call for Zoe's Arrest
The story of 11-year-old Tracy (not her real name), who was kidnapped and circumcised, claimed the attention of Deputy Speaker J. Fonati Koffa, who met with authorities at the… Read more »
Liberia: Winners Chapel Accountant Jailed for Stealing Church Funds
Ben T. Kennedy, 34, accountant of the Winners Chapel International in Kakata, Margibi County, has been jailed by police in Kakata for allegedly stealing US$486 and L$20,000… Read more »
Liberia: Child Soldier Confirms Forced Labor - As Kosiah Testifies Today in War Crimes Trial in Paris
A witness claiming to be a child soldier with Kunti Kamara has confirmed testimonies of over a dozen witnesses of forced labor by Kamara--one of the charges the former commander of… Read more »
Liberia: House Reaches Consensus With LISGIS, UNFPA to Readjust Census Date
The Speaker of the House of Representatives Bhofal Chambers has announced that the House has met with top officials of the Liberia Institute of Statistics and Geo-Information… Read more »
Liberia: Drivers Bemoan Police Extortion On Monrovia-Bomi Highway
Road users have bemoaned the increasing rate of extortion by policemen assigned on the Monrovia-Bomi highway. Read more »
Liberia: Ministry of Labor Donates 500 Copies of the 'Decent Work Act' Pocketbooks to the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law
Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law Students Association has received 500 pieces of books on the Decent Work Act from the Ministry of Labor. Read more »
October 20, 2022
Liberia: The Game Kailondo Played - Positions Someone to Stage As His Son During Telephone Interview On the Shooting Saga
Renowned Liberian businessman Mr. George Kailondo, Sr. bizarrely deceived a FrontPageAfrica reporter Monday when he gave a fake contact number as his son's contact number. Read more »
Liberia: Liberia Integrate More Refugees, Issue Them Civil Documentation
The government of Liberia has described the overall refugee regime in Liberia as very peaceful and stable, and also reaffirmed its commitments to the implementation of the 1951… Read more »
Liberia: New NPA Deputy Managing Director for Operations Fled the States for Alleged Fraud and Drugs
FrontPageAfrica has gathered that the newly appointed Deputy Managing Director for Operations at the National Port Authority (NPA), Sam Doe, is a fugitive from the United States of… Read more »
Liberia: Victims Detail Forced Labor Under Ulimo As Kamara Admits to Paris Trial He Was the Only "Co Kundi' in Lofa
Kunti Kamara appeared to undermine his defense case in his trial on torture, cannibalism and crimes against humanity on Wednesday as he denied repeatedly that Ulimo had committed… Read more »
October 19, 2022
Liberia: Family Members of Three Missing Boys Hired By St. Moses Call On the U.S. Embassy's Intervention for Justice
For two years now, the Government of Liberia (GOL), through the Ministry of Justice has failed to provide an update or release the outcome of an investigative report on… Read more »
Liberia: 'You Are Kundi. You Killed My Sister' - A Third Victim Identifies Kamara As Perpetrator in War Crimes Trial
On Tuesday a third victim identified Kunti Kamara, on trial for torture, cannibalism and crimes against humanity in the Paris Court, as "Co Kundi" the rebel commander who allegedly… Read more »
Liberia: 11-Year-Old Likely to Suffer Fistula After Forceful Genital Cutting Went Wrong in Sande Bush
Eleven-year-old Tracy, not her real name, never anticipated being kidnapped when she went out to sell along with other kids on September 15, 2022. The sounds of drums and sasa… Read more »
October 18, 2022
Liberia: 'We Are Humans Not Animals' Group Of 77th Stages Protest
The Group of 77th has staged a sit-in protest in demand of better livelihood at the entrance of the institution. Read more »