Liberia News

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor walks into a ceremony to hand over power to Moses Blah August 11, 2003 in Monrovia, Liberia.

A bill seeking to establish a transit authority in Margibi County or the Margibi Transit Authority has been drafted and will be submitted to the national legislature soon for enactment.

MONROVIA: An infantry platoon-size unit of the Armed Forces of Liberia departs the country on tomorrow, Thursday, June 20, to join the Africa International Support Mission in Mali .

In agreement with defense lawyers' application Tuesday, demanding prosecution to provide all evidences, including witnesses' names in the ongoing proceedings against 19 Grand Gedeans, Criminal Court "D" Judge Yussif D. Kabba has ordered state lawyers to submit all evidences establishing their case.

Good by Bishop, you did well on earth. Now that God has called you from labor to rest, I say good bye or as the Mano people say, ko lapee aye or ko to aye, meaning we shall meet in the morning or tomorrow.

Liberia is a country of unprecendented contradictions. On the one hand, the country is endowed with abundant natural resources, with the current administration claiming to have attracted over $19 billion dollars in foreign investments .

Last week I participated in the Society for International Development's annual conference in Washington, DC.

The lawyers representing 19 Grand Gedians currently under trial for different crimes ranging from rape, murder, mercenarism, theft of property and arson, has filed a motion before Criminal Court "D" at the Temple of Justice to dismiss the trial against their clients.

Monrovia-based newspaper The New Dawn says the funds will be used to support the cellco's ongoing network rollout and upgrade programme across Liberia.

In her four years as U.S. Secretary of State, Hilary Rodham Clinton made two key visits to Liberia - the first during a seven-nation tour of Africa in 2009 and another to attend the second inauguration of her long-time friend, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf in January 2012.

Firestone Liberia Accelerated Learning and Skills Training Program has graduated 54 students in various skills.

Liberia-based Fyrkuna Metalworks is transforming decommissioned weapons from the West African country's long civil war into whimsical sculptures.

Liberians erected, upon a platform of more than a decade of death and devastation, an epitaph of civil rule in 2005 based on an all-inclusive multiparty democracy and reinforced it in 2011.

The World Bank has offered to go extra miles to strengthen Liberia's energy sector to buttress the government's excellent performance which has ranked her as number one among African States, who poverty rate has fallen to 1.3 percent.

Robust Media reports on the issue of poor sanitation in Monrovia and its environs by the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Reporters & Editors Network of Liberia have claimed the attention of the Liberian Senate.

The Lone Star Telecommunications Company has signed a US$25 million Medium Term Loan Syndication with four banking institutions in Liberia: UBA Liberia; Ecobank, Liberia Bank for Development and Investment, and the Guaranty Trust Banks .

A South Korean Investment Company, the Make Group says plans are far advanced to invest US$695 million in the construction and development of a millennium village here.

In August 2011, Cllr. Francis Johnson-Allison, Chair of Liberia's Anti Corruption Commission wondered whether monies being pumped into the Liberian economy by multi-million dollar companies were acquired through legal means.

Dehkontee Precious Tarr of Liberia will be visiting Chaddock on Monday, June 17 to speak to students at an assembly beginning at 9:30 am.

Liberian President, Vice President Meet With Make Group Delegation From South Korea - Construction of Millennium Village Complex to Commence Within Months A delegation of the Make Group, a South Korean-based investment company specializing in Africa's development, paid a courtesy call on President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf at her Foreign Ministry ... (more)