Sport
Ghana's Kyeremateng makes Scrabble history in Monrovia
She is the first Ghanaian woman named Best Female at the African championship, and Haruna Adamu now leads the continental body.
West Africa
Liberia
The latest news from Liberia: politics, business, technology, culture, sport and more.
Business
Liberia invites investors into fish farming, processing and cold storage
With a World Bank fisheries project more than 80% spent, Liberia's fisheries authority says the next step is private investment that keeps the sector's value at home.
Business
Liberia wants its minerals processed at home
At a town hall in Bomi County, the mines minister said the test is how much value stays in the country, and floated a gold refinery and a state mining company.
Business
Liberia starts rewriting its mining law to qualify for a second US compact
The Law Reform Commission and the Millennium Challenge Corporation have begun reviewing the law. Legislators are pressing for stronger local content rules.
Politics
Liberia jails ex-security deputy pending cocaine trial
Gerald Folley Smith and four others have been sent to Monrovia Central Prison over a $317 million seizure. The indictment names 18 people.
Politics
Liberian court issues warrants for 20 people in $317 million cocaine case
Former vice president Jewel Howard-Taylor is among those named in what a Monrovia newspaper calls the largest narcotics case in the country's judicial history. The allegations have not been proven.
Politics
Sirleaf tells Liberia its anti-corruption laws need teeth
The former president said accountability must start with those at the very top, and admitted the institutions her own government built have not ended graft.
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