Liberia once again faces a familiar crossroads, where the potential of petroleum wealth clashes with painful memories of exploitation, institutional weakness, and opaque decision-making.

(Monrovia) – Liberian President Joseph Boakai should follow through on his commitment to justice and human rights by renewing an executive order key to establishing a war crimes court to address ...

As Liberia pushes toward its largest national budget in history -- an ambitious US$1.2 billion spending plan for fiscal year ...

In March 1845, Newark-born Edward James Roye sold his business and property in Terre Haute, Indiana. The property he owned in Newark was sold two months later. It is believed that his wife died this ...

In August 2023, I joined Afro Charities as an intern. I came as someone who had spent considerable time immersed in archives, deeply revering the processing archivists whose hands, eyes, feet and ...

Published: November 28, 2025International Law governs the relations between territories and facilitates peace and diplomacy amongst states and nations. Liberia is in West Africa and is recovering from ...

Maisa Tisdale, President and Founder of the Mary & Eliza Freeman Center for History and Community speaks during a ...

Foreign Minister Nyanti Briefs Diplomatic Corps on Liberia’s Preparedness for United Nations (UN) Security Council Non-Permanent Seat ...

In the four years that Newark native Edward J. Roye lived in Liberia, he had become a very wealthy man. In 1850, he returned to the United States on personal business and was asked to return to Terra ...

Liberia's billion-dollar infrastructure deal with Ivanhoe Atlantic faces increased scrutiny as detailed evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) shows a company that repeatedly gained ...

On Nov. 23, 2005, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was elected president of Liberia, becoming Africa’s first democratically elected ...