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Liberia

  • Sunday, 29 June, 2025
    The extraordinary life and mysterious death of a carbon credits broker

    How an Italian fugitive used diplomatic immunity to work with Dubai royalty and Liberia’s fallen hero

    Samuele Landi from a film still from ‘The Legend of Landi’
  • Thursday, 15 August, 2024
    Visual investigation
    The European boats fishing under a veil of secrecy

    EU vessels are registering with African fleets and exploiting local fishing laws

  • Wednesday, 6 December, 2023
    The Big Read
    The looming land grab in Africa for carbon credits

    Countries might soon be able to trade emission reductions with other governments, but experts warn the market is already being exploited in developing countries

  • Saturday, 18 November, 2023
    Liberia’s George Weah concedes defeat after tight vote

    Former vice-president Joseph Boakai completes remarkable comeback with runoff victory

    Joseph Boakai
  • Thursday, 19 October, 2023
    Liberia’s presidential race set for second round

    Incumbent George Weah unlikely to secure the majority of votes needed, leading to run-off with former vice-president Joseph Boakai

    George Weah
  • Tuesday, 13 December, 2022
    Absence abroad by Liberia president George Weah attracts criticism

    Travels by the former footballer include cheering on his son Timothy at Qatar World Cup

    Liberia president George Weah at the FIFA World Cup Group B match between USA and Wales in Doha, Qatar
  • Thursday, 23 December, 2021
    Mining
    Billionaire businessman targets UK listing for ‘caviar of iron ore’ project

    Mining magnate Robert Friedland says London is the ‘natural place’ to list Nimba deposit

    Nimba mine in Guinea
  • Thursday, 14 October, 2021
    Special ReportInvesting in Education
    Liberia’s schools outsourcing experiment divides opinion

    Educators are split over whether the scheme is a model for others or a harmful failure

  • Thursday, 18 April, 2019
    Mining
    Mick Davis vehicle Niron gets Liberia export clearance
  • Friday, 1 March, 2019
    Liberian central bankers held after probe into missing millions

    Son of former president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is one of those detained

    A Liberian demonstrator shouts as he holds a sign during a protest in Monrovia, Liberia September 24, 2018. REUTERS/Derrick Snyder - RC13AC427310
  • Friday, 11 January, 2019
    British hacker jailed after crashing Liberia’s internet

    Hacker-for-hire’s attack on mobile network inadvertently caused shutdown

    epa05267149 A photograph made available 19 April 2016 shows a woman using a cellphobne in Monrovia, Liberia 18 April 2016. The mobile industry in West Africa has grown from a state controlled space to becoming a massive market fueling economic growth and technological innovation. Mobile network operators have stiff competion between each other for the millions of African consumers looking to connect in an easy and affordable way. The cellphone industry has in many instances circumvented the problematic fixed line infrastructure of existing telecommunications networks. Proponents to this growth in mobile technology include a World Bank investment of $50 million USD in infrastructure development and capacity building as well as a fiber optic submarine West African Cable System (WACS) aimed at dramatically increase broadband capacity for the region.  EPA/AHMED JALLANZO
  • Tuesday, 2 October, 2018
    World
    Liberia central bank says $104m in new cash is not lost after all

    Notes are found in vaults after popular outrage but some remain sceptical

    FILE PHOTO: A Liberian demonstrator holds a sign during a protest in Monrovia, Liberia September 24, 2018. REUTERS/James Giahyue/File Photo
  • Wednesday, 19 September, 2018
    World
    Liberia probes disappearance of $100m in central bank money

    African nation launches ‘national security’ investigation and bars officials from travelling

    FILE PHOTO: People stand near Liberia's Central Bank in Monrovia, Liberia, October 18, 2017. REUTERS/Thierry Gouegnon/File Photo
  • Tuesday, 8 May, 2018
    House & Home
    Global property watch: the week that was

    From Vancouver price rises to a 3D-printed house, a round-up of world property news

    To clarify it is the first concrete 3D printed house, the first of its kind within the EU and can be taken apart and reassembled elsewhere.  See press release for more details.
									
									Kate Adlington
									
									PR Manager | UKMEA Region
									Arup
  • Thursday, 5 April, 2018
    African politics
    Opposition leader sworn in as Sierra Leone president after run-off

    Peaceful election follows pattern of democratic polls in west Africa

    Opposition candidate and former military junta leader Julius Maada Bio takes his oath as Sierra Leone's new president in Freetown, Sierra Leone April 4, 2018. REUTERS/Olivia Acland
  • Monday, 12 February, 2018
    African politics
    Former president of Liberia wins $5m African leadership prize

    Ellen Johnson Sirleaf becomes the first woman to claim the Mo Ibrahim award

    Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf delivers a speech during the opening of the 2017 International Conference on the emergence of Afric at the hotel Ivoire in Abidjan on March 28, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / SIA KAMBOU (Photo credit should read SIA KAMBOU/AFP/Getty Images)
  • Wednesday, 10 January, 2018
    David Pilling
    The mixed legacy of Liberia’s Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

    Not all of Liberia’s women support her elevation as a feminist icon

    NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 20: President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf speaks at the 2016 Concordia Summit - Day 2 at Grand Hyatt New York on September 20, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Concordia Summit)
  • Friday, 29 December, 2017
    News in-depthWorld
    Liberia’s man of the match faces challenging line-up

    President-elect’s reputation as miracle worker will be sorely tested by endemic poverty

    (FILES) This file photograph taken on September 18, 2005, shows Liberian footballer George Weah (C) as he takes part in a friendly soccer match in Monrovia. Former star footballer George Weah was named winner of Liberia's presidential election on December 28, 2017, easily beating his challenger in the country's first democratic transfer of power in seven decades scarred by civil wars, political assassinations and an Ebola crisis. / AFP PHOTO / Olivier Laban-MatteiOLIVIER LABAN-MATTEI/AFP/Getty Images
  • Friday, 29 December, 2017
    Instant InsightGideon Rachman
    Can sporting stars offer political salvation?

    The success of George Weah in Liberia can be repeated elsewhere, writes Gideon Rachman

    (FILES) This file photograph taken on September 18, 2005, shows Liberian footballer George Weah (C) as he takes part in a friendly soccer match in Monrovia. Former star footballer George Weah was named winner of Liberia's presidential election on December 28, 2017, easily beating his challenger in the country's first democratic transfer of power in seven decades scarred by civil wars, political assassinations and an Ebola crisis. / AFP PHOTO / Olivier Laban-MatteiOLIVIER LABAN-MATTEI/AFP/Getty Images
  • Thursday, 28 December, 2017
    Sport
    George Weah takes Liberian presidency

    Ex-footballer wins decisive victory in west African state

    George Weah, former soccer player and presidential candidate of Congress for Democratic Change (CDC), delivers a speech during the party's presidential campaign rally at Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Complex in Monrovia, Liberia, December 23, 2017. REUTERS/Thierry Gouegnon
  • Monday, 9 October, 2017
    News in-depthWorld
    Liberians vote in elections that will decide Sirleaf’s successor

    Legacy of Africa’s first female elected head of state criticised despite decade of peace

    (FILES) This file photo taken on May 31, 2016 shows Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf attending the launch of a book about by K. Riva Levinson, president and CEO of KRL International LLC, a Washington communications and government relations firm that serves as the consultancy of record for Liberia, at the Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, DC. Liberia's outgoing President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says she will actively campaign for the handful of female candidates contesting elections in October, while her male vice-president seeks to replace her. There is just a single female candidate among 20 contenders running for president this year in Liberia, as Sirleaf steps down as Africa's first female head of state following more than a decade in power / AFP PHOTO / NICHOLAS KAMMNICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images
  • Thursday, 13 July, 2017
    Global InsightDavid Pilling
    Five elections tell the diverse tale of democracy in Africa

    Commitment to competitive electoral politics is strong, even if it falls short

    Joseph Kabila says the DRC is too broke to organise a poll
  • Thursday, 29 June, 2017
    World
    Liberia prepares for life after Nobel prize-winning president

    Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has led transition from war and anarchy to peace and stability

    Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf delivers a speech during the opening of the 2017 International Conference on the emergence of Afric at the hotel Ivoire in Abidjan on March 28, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / SIA KAMBOU (Photo credit should read SIA KAMBOU/AFP/Getty Images)
  • Wednesday, 3 May, 2017
    David Pilling
    Ports and roads mean China is ‘winning in Africa’

    Chinese have a record of getting things done despite criticism of their methods

    Workers operate machinery on a jetty at a ShanDong ZhongJiao Navigation Engineering Co. construction site as a new port is built near Boke, Guinea, on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015. Building the port only took about eight months and allowed China Hongqiao Group Ltd.’s project to start shipping in July. Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg
  • Friday, 21 April, 2017
    FT Magazine
    Inside Liberia’s controversial experiment to outsource education

    In 2013, 25,000 Liberians took a university entrance exam. No-one passed. So the government came up with a drastic plan 

    Nimba County, Liberia- (BRIDGE) Students gather outside the Martha Tubman Elementary School after school in Nimba County, Liberia on Thursday, April 6, 2017. (Jane Hahn for the Financial Times)
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