The Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency confirmed the testing of herbal plants packaged in natural form at the Roberts International Airport contain a presence of methamphetamine.
As part of the Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency's initial scientific investigation on samples of these natural plants, the examination results revealed the presence of illicit drug, which is contained under the United Nations table/listing for illegal narcotic drugs, the statement said.
The Criminal Court “A” Tuesday granted defense lawyers’ request to fly into country a foreign pathologist to conduct an independent autopsy on the remains a teenage girl who a former Supreme Court judge is accused of killing.
United Nations investigators point to people in the military, security forces, former rebel fighters and corrupt politicians in Liberia as partners in the trade of narcotic and other controlled substances. It shows drug trafficking reached its peak by 2010.
Foreign law enforcement agencies mention of Liberian security cooperation in counternarcotic operations is a façade, it said.
ECOWAS Commission President Omar Alieu Touray, has approved the deployment of 15 Long-term Election Observers (LTOs) to monitor key stages in the electoral process leading up to the country’s general elections on 10th October 2023.
The deployment is consistent with provisions of Articles 12 to 14 of the 2001 ECOWAS Supplementary Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance on assistance to Member States holding elections, the regional bloc said in a statement Monday.
More than a dozen political parties featuring presidential and legislative candidates in the scheduled October 10 general elections have reached deal to jointly monitor the casting, counting and tallying of votes.
Erstwhile ruling Unity Party and the Alternative National Congress are the big players in the opposition community leading the joint vote monitoring and observation collaboration barely a year after they failed to draw a common presidential ticket.
European Union Elections Observation Mission to Liberian has deployed about 20 long term observers in Liberia’s 15 counties ahead of the October 10 presidential and legislative elections.
These elections mark a significant milestone in the consolidation of Liberian democracy as such team will focus on the entire process, Jarek Domanski, the deputy chief observer of the EU Election Mission said Saturday in the capital Monrovia.
Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown has been hit by power cuts, its energy minister said on Friday, after Turkey’s Karpowership switched off electricity supply due to an unpaid debt of around $40m.
Minister Kanja Sesay told the Reuters news agency that the outstanding amount “was accrued over time because the government subsidises more than half the cost the ship charges per kilowatt hour”.
Good afternoon! Thank you all for being here today for my first formal interaction with the Liberian media.
It is an honor to meet you and I applaud the vital work that you and other Liberian journalists are doing every day to objectively report and inform the Liberian public about the most important issues of the day. I look forward to answering your questions.
Bomi County Senator Edwin Melvin-Snowe has accused the Liberian government of shortchanging the county by more than half a million United States Dollars in payments made from the Western Cluster Social Development Fund.
According to Senator Snowe, the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning has deliberately withheld funds, hindering the county’s planned development projects. The actions of the government have not been well-received by the county’s citizens.
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Monrovia Thursday to demonstrate their faith in President George Weah’s nearly six years stewardship of the country as 2.5 million people prepare to vote in the October 10 general elections.
