Liberia

Significant progress has been made towards fiscal transparency, as outlined by the US Bureau of Economic and Trade Affairs in its Fiscal Transparency Report 2023

Cuttington University, Sub-Saharan Africa's oldest private university, has now obtained 24-hour electricity after years of limited supply, with students hitherto forced to interrupt their nightly studies and other social activities

Health authorities at the Grand Kru County Government Referral Hospital have lamented the deteriorating situation due to the lack of essential medical supplies, particularly drugs

African Development Bank identified a number of key challenges for growth in Liberia, emphasising that it is significantly dependent on the external sector, particularly export growth and sustained foreign direct investment inflows

A Swiss appeals court upheld the 20-year prison sentence against former Liberian warlord Alieu Kosiah for rape, murder and cannibalism and also the additional charge of crimes against humanity

Cuttington University, one of the country's most prestigious academic institutions and the oldest private university in sub-Saharan Africa, will become the first and only one in the country to offer doctoral degrees

$12 million intended for the market and rural women in Bong County vanished with no trace of its use; it had been provided by President George Weah through the national chairman of the CDC for later distribution to traders and other women in the county

The Monrovia City Corporation has launched the planting of 20.000 mangrove and coconut trees along the Japan Freeway, the coastal strip of the borough of New Kru Town and West Point, respectively

A joint tax compliance control operation is underway in Grand Bassa and Margibi, an initiative of the Liberia Revenue Agency and the Ministry of Transport that has been intensified lately

The National Electoral Commission has extended daily working hours by an additional two hours over the weekend for the last two days of the first phase of the biometric voter registration process

The government denied reports in some media and other organisations that the President had vetoed the section of the New Election Law to ensure 30% female participation in the national legislature

Liberia's leadership in building a strong national community health workforce program has been described as a remarkable example of partnership, commitment, and innovation, by Dr. Juan Pablo Uribe of the World Bank