Tag: Republic of Liberia
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🇬🇭 Africa’s Organised Crime Index 2025: 23 Countries Face High Criminality and Weak Resilience
The 2025 Africa Organised Crime Index finds that organised crime has expanded across the continent since 2019 while resilience has weakened. Twenty-three African countries face the combination of high criminality and low resilience, with financial crime, trafficking, resource crime, counterfeit goods and arms trafficking among the continent’s most pervasive criminal markets.
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🇱🇷 🇸🇴 🇨🇩 Africa Has a Seat at the Table — But Not a Permanent One
Africa has three elected members on the UN Security Council in 2026, but no permanent seat or veto. As African leaders renew calls for reform, the debate is increasingly focused on whether the global security system still reflects the geopolitical realities of the 21st century.
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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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🇸🇪 Sweden Closes Embassy in Liberia as Stockholm Signals New Focus on Trade and Business
MONROVIA, Liberia — Sweden has officially closed its embassy in Liberia, bringing an end to the country’s resident diplomatic mission in Monrovia while signaling that the relationship between the two countries is not coming to an end. The closure marks a significant transition in a relationship that has developed over decades through diplomacy, development cooperation,…
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🇬🇭 When Martin Luther King Jr. Came to West Africa: Liberia, Ghana and the Birth of a New Nation
By Panafrican.email MONROVIA / ACCRA — March 1957 Before Martin Luther King Jr. became one of the world’s most recognized advocates of civil rights, he was already beginning to see the African liberation struggle as part of a much larger story about freedom. That connection became personal in March 1957, when King and his wife,…
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🇱🇷 Deportees Sent to Liberia: A New Chapter in America’s Expanding Deportation Policy
MONROVIA, LIBERIA — A group of people deported from the United States to Liberia has found itself thousands of miles from home, navigating an unfamiliar country and an uncertain future after being removed under the Trump administration’s expanding immigration enforcement policies. According to reporting by CBS News, the deportees include individuals from countries such as…
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🇱🇷 Strange Vessel Found Abandoned on Miami Beach in Monrovia Raises Questions
MONROVIA, LIBERIA — A mysterious vessel that appeared unexpectedly along Miami Beach in Monrovia has sparked curiosity and concern among residents, reviving memories of other unidentified vessels that have washed up along Liberia’s coastline. The unusual discovery was reported in May 2019, when residents of the Miami Beach community near Mamba Point reportedly awoke to…
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🇱🇷 George Weah Visits Jewel Howard-Taylor at South Beach Prison as Liberia’s Drug Case Draws Political Attention
MONROVIA, Liberia — Former Liberian President George Manneh Weah has visited former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor at South Beach Prison, bringing renewed political attention to the high-profile legal case surrounding the former vice president. Weah’s visit comes as Howard-Taylor remains in detention while facing allegations connected to Liberia’s ongoing drug-trafficking investigation. The former vice president…
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🇺🇸 Pierre “P” Thomas Hospitalized After Reported Heart Attack as Quality Control’s Pan-African Influence Continues to Grow
ATLANTA — The hip-hop community is rallying around Pierre “P” Thomas, the influential co-founder and CEO of Quality Control Music, following reports that the veteran music executive suffered a heart attack and was hospitalized in Las Vegas. Quality Control Music confirmed on August 21 that Thomas is alive and receiving medical care, after false reports…
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🇱🇷 Sando Johnson Questions Investigation Into Alleged $2 Million Drug Cartel Link
Monrovia, Liberia — Questions are being raised over the handling of allegations involving the son of Liberia’s president and an alleged communication with a drug cartel, with political commentator Sando Johnson arguing that the matter warranted a formal investigation by law enforcement authorities. Johnson made the remarks while discussing allegations that the president’s son had…