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Liberia: Artisanal Fishers Question Benefits of Government’s New Tracking Devices

By Edward Blamo via Mongabay In Liberia, a country where small-scale fishers number in the tens of thousands, fishers go missing at sea every year. Some, like...

Liberia: President Orders Probe Into 11.6 Million Tons of ‘Sovereign’ Mining Waste

By Festus Poquie President Joseph Boakai has established a Special Presidential Committee to resolve a decades old dispute over the Buchanan tailings stockpile in Grand...

Liberia: LERC Approves New Electricity Tariff to Fund $256 Million Grid

Liberia’s electricity regulator approved a new multiyear tariff package on Friday designed to shore up the financial viability of the state utility while trimming...

Liberia, Other Developing Countries Massing Out on Benefits of International Trade Standards

Of 5G cellular networks-is steadily reshaping the global economic order, delivering hefty benefits to the wealthy nations and large multinational companies that set them...

House Approves Ivanhoe Atlantic Rail Access and Concession Agreement Paving Way for $1.8 Billion Investment In Liberia’s Economy

The Liberian House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly Thursday to approve a Concession and Access Agreement (CAA) that will allow U.S. firm Ivanhoe Atlantic to...

Liberia: EU Delegation, Liberian Officials Assess Progress of Energy Project in Greenville

A high-powered delegation representing the European Union (EU) and key Government of Liberia (GoL) institutions including the National Authorizing Office (NAO) of the Ministry...

Ivanhoe Atlantic Set to Invest Billions In Liberia Targeting Road, Rail and Port Infrastructure as Legislature Considers Concession

The House of Representatives is due to vote today on a Concession and Access Agreement (CAA) that would allow U.S. firm Ivanhoe Atlantic to...

Liberia: $500-million Infrastructure Fund Launched

Asset management firm Gemcorp Capital is working with Angola’s sovereign wealth fund to launch a $500-million Africa-focused infrastructure fund in Abu Dhabi. The aim...

Former Mines Minister Says Liberia’s Bea Mountain Gold Could Yield $40 Billion

Former Liberian Mines and Energy Minister Wilmot Paye has put the potential value of the Turkish-owned Bea Mountain Mining Company (BMMC) gold concession in...

Liberia: World Bank’s JUPITER Program Spurs Evidence-Based Justice Reform in Liberia

The World Bank says a new data-driven assessment has strengthened efforts to reform Liberia’s justice sector by providing a comprehensive diagnostic of performance across...

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