Tag: Joseph Boakai
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🇱🇷 Putu Iron Ore Project Moves Back Toward AMR as Severstal Reverses Position
Liberia’s Putu Iron Ore Project moves back toward AMR after Severstal says its binding offer is superior to Planet One’s proposal, reopening the path to development in Grand Gedeh.
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🇱🇷 Former Liberian Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor Sent to Monrovia Central Prison as Court Denies Release Request
MONROVIA, Liberia — August 25, 2026 — Liberia’s former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor has been remanded to the Monrovia Central Prison after a Monrovia City Court denied a request by her lawyers for her release on humanitarian grounds, escalating a high-profile narcotics investigation that has shaken the country’s political establishment. Howard-Taylor, who served as Liberia’s…
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🇱🇷 Liberia Receives First 20 Deportees as U.S. Begins Plan to Send Up to 1,200 Third-Country Migrants
MONROVIA, Liberia — August 21, 2026 — Liberia has received the first group of migrants deported from the United States under a controversial new third-country transfer arrangement that could bring as many as 1,200 people to Liberia over the next 12 months. The first batch of 20 deportees arrived at Roberts International Airport on Thursday,…
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🇱🇷 Liberia’s Former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor Charged in Transnational Drug Trafficking Probe
MONROVIA, Liberia — August 19, 2026 — Liberia’s former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor has been charged with drug trafficking, money laundering and other offenses as part of an investigation into an alleged transnational narcotics network, according to Liberia’s government. (Reuters) The development marks a dramatic escalation in Liberia’s ongoing investigation into a major cocaine trafficking…
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Colombian and Spanish Nationals Arrested in Liberia as Authorities Expand Major Cocaine Investigation
Monrovia, Liberia — Liberian security authorities have arrested a Colombian national and a Spanish national in connection with one of the country’s largest ongoing cocaine trafficking investigations, marking a significant breakthrough in the fight against transnational organized crime. The arrests were carried out during a joint security operation in Duazon, near Monrovia, following weeks of…
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Liberia’s Lithium Moment: New Survey, Global Interest, and the Test of Resource Sovereignty
Liberia is moving closer to the center of Africa’s critical-minerals conversation. A new China-funded national geological survey, described as the country’s most comprehensive mineral mapping effort in more than 50 years, has renewed attention on lithium, cobalt, uranium, manganese, neodymium, nickel, zinc, silver, and other strategic minerals. For a country historically known for iron ore,…
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🇱🇷 Twin Groundbreakings in Congo Town: Bridges and Party Headquarters Reshape Liberia’s Political Landscape
Congo Town, Monrovia – The bustling corridor of Tubman Boulevard in Congo Town has become the epicenter of two major infrastructure projects, each symbolizing a different vision for Liberia’s future. Just months after President Joseph Boakai broke ground on two critical overpass bridges, the political opposition has moved to establish a new headquarters just steps…