Liberia News

ABIDJAN, C½te d'Ivoire, May 23 - Two years after the end of C½te d'Ivoire's brief civil war, growing numbers of refugees have been returning to the country since January after violence last year slowed the rate of returns.

Defects in both the current Labour Law and Draft Decent Work Bill 2010 have been discovered, with a call for action to bring Liberia in harmony with international standards and the practice on child labour.

The latest assets declaration report released by the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission on the verification of public officials' assets has exposed several officials who allegedly refused to allow their assets [already declared] to be verified by the LACC.

In February 2012, AP announced a major discovery in its Naria-1 Well offshore Liberia, causing a significant jump in its stocks from 0.70 cents AUD to 1.55AUD at the time of its closing.

Finance and Health Ministers Amara Konneh and Walter Gwenigale have been summoned to appear before the Senate plenary Thursday, May 23, 2013 to answer why health workers in Grand Kru County have not received their three months' pay.

The Liberia Anti Corruption Commission or LACC has released the names of several government officials who lied about their wealth when they declared their assets.

The Press Union of Liberia has lifted the blackout it imposed on the Liberian Presidency on May 9, 2013.

The Liberia Football Association has postponed this week's three-nation tournament in Monrovia that includes Ghana.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, and Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, left, meet with Chief of Police Marc Armblah at the police academy in Monrovia, Liberia Thursday, Aug.

Addressing journalists at the UN Headquarters in New York, Mr. Cameron said that members of the High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, which includes President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia and President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, "nailed our colours to the mast with one clear overarching aim - end extreme poverty in ... (more)

In continuation of its ban on beach and sand mining, the Ministry of Lands, Mines and Energy on Thursday confiscated a 15-ton truck load of blocks in the 11th Street and Watanga communities in Monrovia.

Barely few days after the Liberia Water and Sewer Corporation announced that it has begun pumping water to central Monrovia, the corporation has increased tariff to meet the new demands.

The head of secretariat of the multi-stakeholders Steering Group of the Liberia Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative has disclosed that Liberia has generated US$117 million from the extractive sector of the economy.

The House of Representatives has invited the leadership of the Press Union of Liberia and the Director of the Executive Protection Service Othello Warrick over 'terror threat' against the Liberian Media.

The Press Union of Liberia has extended the media blackout on the Presidency and also included the Ministry of Information.

Prince Johnson, a former warlord-turned-politician who is best known for having videotaped himself overseeing the torture of Liberia's ex-president, announced Friday he is quitting the political party he founded.

A United Nations high-level panel on a post-2015 global development agenda wrapped up today with consensus emerging on how to make a more equitable world, said British Prime Minister David Cameron in his role as co-chair of the body.

Lenoir-Rhyne University will confer two honorary degrees to distinguished leaders in the Christian faith at the commencement service for Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary on May 25 at Ebenezer Lutheran Church in Columbia.

President Sirleaf's Unity Party is part of the Democrat Union of Africa and she's a Nobel Prize winner.

David Cameron and Prince Harry aboard a new Routemaster bus in the Meatpacking District of New York.