A new factory has begun recycling scrap steel to make square rods, round pipes, reinforcement rods and angle steel to meet demand of the West African regional market. The environment-friendly facility in the Chicken Soup [...]
This is the first year passing the West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations is required to graduate from high school. Saturday study sessions and mock exams implemented by the Ministry of Education are credited with [...]
More than five decades after getting kicked out of kindergarten, RPCV Sia Barbara Kamara is helping to redesign the way young children in Liberia learn.
The Fortescue Metals CEO has denied a Liberian Government announcement of a deal for the company to finance a railroad upgrade and extension to carry iron ore from Guinea to the Port of Buchanan. So [...]
Hopes are high that the two year old project to rebuild the Timbo River Bridge will be completed before independence celebrations on July 26. Sand miners who undermined pilings of the old bridge will be [...]
The European Union gave 8 large dump trucks, 5 mini dump trucks, 1 bulldozer, 8 pickups, 3 front-end loaders, 8 tricycles and 10 skip trucks to the cities of Monrovia and Paynesville. The waste management [...]
Cheap imports have forced Firestone out of the Liberian domestic lumber market. Rubberwood, also known as Hevea wood, is a hardwood made from exhausted old rubber trees. Firestone began Hevea wood production in 2009, employing [...]
Liberia ratified last month the Port State Measures Agreement (PSMA) to eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing (IUU). Adopted in 2009 by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the PSMA requires parties to strengthen [...]
After removing a section that made Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) illegal, the Liberian legislature passed the long-awaited Domestic Violence Law yesterday. Liberia is one of only six countries which are home to 16 million girls [...]
Over 180 traditional leaders, in collaboration with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, have agreed to suspend Bush School activities for one year. The suspension aims to stop “harmful traditional practices” of Sande societies, such as [...]