News Liberia: Liberia: Lseza Seals U.S.$32m Investment Deal to Expand Manufacturing and Exports
Liberia has secured a major boost to its industrialization agenda after the Liberia Special Economic Zones Authority (LSEZA) signed a US$32 million, 25-year Developer/Operator Licensing Agreement with Softcare Liberia Limited, a landmark investment expected to expand local manufacturing, create hundreds of jobs and strengthen the country's position as an emerging regional export hub.
News Liberia: Liberia: U.S.$600 Million Investment and the Future of Liberia's Dugbe Gold Project
Opinion - The announcement that Mansa Resources intends to invest approximately US$600 million in the development of Liberia's Dugbe Gold Project should be welcomed as a potentially transformative opportunity for the country's economy. If successfully implemented, the project could generate thousands of jobs, stimulate economic activity in southeastern Liberia, increase government revenues, and position Liberia as a major player in West Africa's gold industry.
News Liberia: Liberia's Monrovia airport privatisation is another test for western investors
Liberia is betting a 25‑year private concession on tiny Roberts International Airport—despite poverty and past crises—testing whether Africa’s aviation boom can lure investors beyond the usual hubs.
News Liberia: Liberia: Will Printing Money to Buy Gold Strengthen, or Strain the Liberian Dollar?
Editorial - The Central Bank of Liberia says it plans to print additional Liberian dollar banknotes to buy gold from local miners and build up national reserves. On the surface, the idea makes sense. Liberia exports large amounts of gold each year yet holds none in reserve. Keeping some of that value at home is a reasonable ambition.
News Liberia: Liberia: Boakai Calls Emergency Session to Print Money. Here's What's Really Going On.
- When a president invokes a rarely used constitutional provision to drag lawmakers back to the Capitol two weeks ahead of the regular legislative calendar, and the top item on the agenda is printing more money, it is worth pausing to ask a question that nobody in the Boakai administration appears eager to answer: Is Liberia running out of cash?
News Liberia: The vanishing forests on Liberia’s cocoa frontier
(GRAND GEDEH, Liberia) – Off in the woods beyond the ekki trees, a sharp crack cuts through the buzzing of insects. “It’s a tree falling,” says George Bowey, a baby-faced community eco-guard who works here in the proposed Kwa National Park, a thick tropical rainforest in southeastern Liberia. There are different ways to grow cacao. […]
News Liberia: Liberia: Contractor Vanishes After U.S.$990k Gbarpolu Road Payout As Senate, LACC Close in
The Senate Public Accounts and Audits Committee has summoned the Ministry of Public Works to appear jointly with the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission regarding the abandoned US$990,000 Gbarpolu County chip-seal road project, escalating legislative scrutiny of a contract whose beneficiary collected significant public funds and is now untraceable.
News Liberia: Trump turns to Liberia for Venezuelan and Cuban deportees under $5 million migration programme
Liberia has received the first 20 of up to 1,200 US deportees under a Trump administration programme backed by $5 million in migration support. | Business Insider Africa
News Liberia: Liberia: CBL Eases Interest Rate As Inflation Slows
The Central Bank of Liberia (CBL) has cautiously eased monetary policy for the first time in months, cutting its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points while projecting that the economy will continue its strong growth trajectory through 2026. The move reflects growing confidence that inflationary pressures are gradually easing even as policymakers remain alert to mounting global economic risks.
News Liberia: Liberia: CSA, Nicol, International Bank Sign Landmark Vehicle Insurance Credit Scheme for Government Workers
The Government of Liberia, through the Civil Service Agency, has entered into a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with International Bank (Liberia) Limited and the National Insurance Company of Liberia (NICOL) to establish a vehicle insurance credit scheme for government employees across the country.
News Liberia: Liberia: Breaking the Credit Gridlock
The Central Bank of Liberia (CBL) is moving to confront what it describes as one of the country's most persistent yet least understood economic challenges--a mounting non-performing loan (NPL) crisis that continues to restrict access to credit, discourage investment and undermine private-sector growth.
News Liberia: Liberia: House Ratifies U.S.$30 Million Loan for Salayea-Konia Road
The House of Representatives has ratified a US$30 million concessional loan agreement to finance the construction of the 50-kilometer Salayea-Konia Road in Lofa County, marking a significant step forward in the Boakai administration's effort to expand the country's road infrastructure.
News Liberia: Kuwait grants KD 5m loan for Liberia road project
The Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) participated Wednesday in the inauguration of the Banga-Salayea road project in ...
News Liberia: Zodiac Gold
Zodiac Gold’s flagship project is the Todi Gold Project in Liberia, West Africa. It comprises three mineral exploration licences covering a total area of 2,316 km² along the Todi Shear Zone and is ...
News Liberia: Liberia, America’s outpost of financial secrecy
Picture: LISCR’s office on 5th Street Sinkor District Monrovia, where mail for the more than 40,000 companies registered to 80 Broad Street is delivered. An investigation by Finance Uncovered has ...
News Liberia: Liberia: Media Extortion Is 'Dressed-Up Fraud
Speaker Tells Journalists - Media extortion undermines public trust and is tantamount to "dressed-up fraud," B. Elias Shoniyin, Managing Director of Africa Development Management ...
News Liberia: Liberia: Post-County Meet Crisis - Montserrado, Grand Kru Players Demand Unpaid Salaries and Allowances
Monrovia — Frustration is mounting among players of Montserrado and Grand Kru county football teams over unpaid salaries and allowances following the conclusion of the National County Sports Meet.
News Liberia: Liberia: Emmanuel Nuku Reeves, Sr. Rallies Grand Kru Association to Adopt Results-Driven Approach to Development, Donates $10,000 At U.S. Convention
Liberians in the diaspora continue to play a pivotal role in shaping development back home, as members of the Grand Kru County Development Association in the Americas (GKCDAA) gathered Saturday for their annual national convention reception in Bowie, Maryland.
