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One Woman, half a Billion Dollars: The Question Liberia’s Drug Investigation hasn’t Answered
As former President George Weah touches down in Monrovia, the two record-breaking drug busts that started this…
Liberia Gets Clean Audit Opinion on 2025 Accounts
MONROVIA, Liberia, September 2, 2026 — Liberia’s Auditor General has issued an unqualified audit opinion on th…
Zuo Takes Office as ECOWAS Commissioner
By Lewis S. Teh ABUJA, Nigeria, September 2, 2026 — Liberia’s former Deputy Minister for Economic Management, …
Liberia: They Were Found Guilty in Liberia’s Biggest Human Trafficking Trial But No one Has Been Charged Over a Death in the Case. Now the Family Wants Justice
Summary: By Anthony Stephens, senior justice correspondent with New Narratives It was Liberia’s biggest human …
Weah Returns, Monrovia Roars-Homecoming Collides With Liberia’s Drug Firestorm
MONROVIA – George Manneh Weah returns to Liberia at a moment when the country’s drug crisis has broken through…
Piah Condemns Tribal Rhetoric-Links ‘reckless speech’ to instability, demands restraint
MONROVIA – Liberia’s peace remains vulnerable whenever public officials inject ethnic grievance into court pro…
Liberia: Ex-VP Jewel Howard Taylor’s Drug Case Delayed as Defense Seeks Medical Records, Cardiologist
MONROVIA — The preliminary hearing in the government’s drug trafficking and money laundering case against form…
Yarkpawolo Earns Sirleaf’s Praise-Former President celebrates his integrity and commitment
MONROVIA – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s praise of Emmanuel K. Urey Yarkpawolo carries a message larger than one off…
Let peace welcome Weah – no celebration is worth bloodshed
LET PEACE LEAD. Former President George Manneh Weah returns home today to an outpouring of affection that cann…
Liberia Unveils Carbon Framework-Liberia targets investment through environmental assets
MONROVIA – Liberia’s proposed carbon-market policy attempts to convert environmental wealth into regulated inv…
Rev. Barclay Presses Gregory Coleman’s Recusal-Seeks independent cocaine investigation safeguards
MONROVIA – Diaspora Liberian James D. Barclay’s renewed demand for Gregory O. W. Coleman’s recusal places inst…
Quaqua Dissects Drug Narratives-Warns misinformation could destroy trust
MONROVIA – Peter Quaqua has intervened in the shifts of Liberia’s drug debate from personalities toward the in…
Fisheries Training Targets Entrepreneurs-NaFAA links technical skills with financing
MONROVIA – NaFAA’s first fisheries-focused TVET roundtable confronts a central weakness in Liberia’s youth-emp…
NPHIL Laboratory Joins Grid-Secures stable power after decades
MONROVIA – NPHIL’s connection of the National Reference Laboratory to the electricity grid after 35 years remo…
Finance News
Business, investing, policy and market news from Liberia and across West Africa.
Gold Hit US$175 Million in March — Now Two-Thirds of All Exports TrueRate Economics · Jul 4, 2026
Gold exports reached US$175.13 million in March 2026, up 111.87% year-on-year, and now account for 66.52% of t…
Money Supply Hits L$299 Billion — Why Cash Is Up and Savings Are Down TrueRate Economics · Jul 4, 2026
Broad money reached L$299,356.37 million in March 2026, up 10.66% year-on-year, according to CBL data. But the…
13.11% to Borrow, 1.94% to Save: the Spread That Shapes Every Investment TrueRate Economics · Jul 4, 2026
The gap between what banks charge borrowers and what they pay savers widened to 11.17 percentage points in Feb…
Cement Output Hits a Record as the Building Boom Rolls On TrueRate Economics · May 30, 2026
Cement output reached 89,000 metric tons in March 2026, a record in the monthly series and up 52.5% on the yea…
Palm Oil Rebounds to US$173 Million After Volatile Years TrueRate Economics · May 22, 2026
Palm oil output was valued at about US$173 million in 2025, up nearly 8.8% on the year and well above its 2020…
Monrovia Hustle: A Liberian Studio's Bet That West Africa Can Build a Global Video Game TrueRate Tech · Jun 20, 2026
HUIX-2099, a one-person studio in Monrovia, has released a playable vertical slice of Monrovia Hustle 3D — a s…
What a Liberian Open-World Game Says About the Future of African Digital Content TrueRate Tech · Jun 20, 2026
The global games industry generates US$184 billion a year. Virtually none of it comes from West Africa. HUIX-2…
Inside HUIX-2099: The Monrovia Studio Building VR, AI and 3D Products for a Global Market TrueRate Tech · Jun 20, 2026
Founded in 2024, HUIX-2099 is a one-person technology studio in Monrovia working across VR, XR, AI and 3D visu…
Where the US$5.2 Billion Economy Really Comes From TrueRate Business · Jun 19, 2026
Liberia's GDP reached US$5,159.74 million in 2025, up 8% in nominal terms. Services account for the largest sh…
VAT Set to Replace GST in Biggest Tax Overhaul in Years TrueRate Economics · Jun 23, 2026
The Liberia Revenue Authority is steering the country's biggest indirect-tax overhaul in decades: replacing th…
A Two-Speed Economy: Minerals Race Ahead, Most People Don't TrueRate Economics · Jun 6, 2026
Mining surged past US$1 billion and gold and iron-ore exports boomed in 2025, while agriculture grew barely 1%…
China Buys US$134 Million of Liberian Exports After Near-Zero in 2024 TrueRate Business · Jun 11, 2026
Exports to China surged to US$134.19 million in 2025 from just US$0.61 million the year before — a jump so lar…
A Building Boom Pushes Construction Past US$270 Million TrueRate Business · May 5, 2026
Construction output reached US$270 million in 2025, up about 8.9% on the year and nearly double its 2020 level…
The Financial Sector Keeps Growing — but Not by Lending to Business TrueRate Economics · May 10, 2026
The financial-institutions sector expanded about 6.8% to US$161 million in 2025, a steady climb even as banks …
Imported Goods Hold Steady; It's Local Prices That Are Rising TrueRate Economics · May 2, 2026
Imported-item prices were essentially flat over the year to March 2026, up just 0.1%, while domestic prices ro…
Bottlers Ramp Up 20% as Consumer Spending Holds TrueRate Business · Jun 1, 2026
Beverage output rose 20.3% in the year to March 2026, to 4.0 million liters, one of the country's most establi…
Incomes Per Person Are Still Climbing Back to 2018 Levels TrueRate Economics · May 27, 2026
Real GDP per capita rose about 2.4% in 2025 and is up roughly 12.5% from its 2020 low, but still sits just bel…
The State's Own Economic Output Barely Grew Last Year TrueRate Economics · May 25, 2026
The value of government services rose about 2.7% to US$169 million in 2025, the slowest-growing major part of …
Homegrown Steel Output More Than Doubles in a Year TrueRate Economics · May 20, 2026
Steel production rose to 4,267 metric tons in March 2026, up 162.3% from a year earlier, as a domestic industr…
Rice: The US$296 Million Staple With Outsized Political Weight TrueRate Economics · May 17, 2026
Rice output was valued at about US$296 million in 2025, down from US$350 million a year earlier, even as the g…
More Power Flows, yet Few Are Still Connected TrueRate Business · May 12, 2026
Moving People and Data Grows Into a US$257 Million Business TrueRate Business · May 7, 2026
The transport and communications sector grew about 7.8% to US$257 million in 2025, lifted by mobile services, …
Fuel Costs Jump 12% in One Month — Headline Inflation Reads 0.6% TrueRate Business · Jul 4, 2026
Rubber Output Drops 47% as Smallholder Farmers Bear the Cost TrueRate Business · Jul 4, 2026
