Vol 53 No 23 | LIBERIA What price the Unity Party 16th November 2012 The member of parliament and former Speaker Edwin Melvin Snowe has renewed the offensive against Robert Alvin Sirleaf, Chairman of the National Oil Company of Liberia, and Presiden...
Vol 53 No 18 | LIBERIA Not out of the woods 7th September 2012 Solve one problem and another appears, which is why Liberia still needs the UN and its peacekeepers The United Nations Mission in Liberia should serve another year, according to its latest progress report. It is cautiously optimistic in general but is more forthcoming in describi...
Vol 53 No 14 | LIBERIANORWAY Killers united 6th July 2012 The Norwegian court trying Anders Behring Breivik, the self-confessed killer of 77 people in July 2011, has heard evidence on his stay in Liberia. In the 1,500-page manifesto that...
Vol 53 No 13 | CÔTE D'IVOIRELIBERIA Warlords at work 22nd June 2012 Coup plots in Côte d’Ivoire are linked to the murder of United Nations peacekeepers in the west of the country, officials in Abidjan say.
Vol 53 No 12 | LIBERIASIERRA LEONE Warning to future Taylors 8th June 2012 Most people implicated in the warlord president’s crimes have escaped justice but his sentence will still deter others Trial Chamber II of the United Nations-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone on 30 May sentenced Charles Ghankay Taylor to 50 years in prison for his central role in the vicious wa...
Vol 53 No 8 | LIBERIA Keeping it in the family 13th April 2012 The President rejects charges of nepotism after appointing her eldest son to head the state oil company Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has unleashed a storm of controversy by appointing three of her sons and a nephew to important jobs in government. Most attention centred on her eldest Robert...
Vol 53 No 5 | LIBERIA Timis drills deep 2nd March 2012 Controversial British-based mining entrepreneur Frank Timis’s African Petroleum Corporation announced a ‘significant’ oil find off the Liberian coast on 21 February.
Vol 53 No 4 | LIBERIA Ellen's green cred 17th February 2012 President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is taking action on her green credentials after featuring in a New York Times piece headlined ‘A Nobel Laureate’s Problem at Home’. The op-ed accuse...
Vol 53 No 3 | LIBERIA A low-key second term 3rd February 2012 The President promises an inclusive government to foster national unity and prevent unrest President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has lowered the political temperature, preaching political reconciliation and pledging strong commitment to the nation’s youth after a worthy but un...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 5 | LIBERIAJAPANBRIEFING Boardroom row over Tokyo’s oil grant 28th February 2012 A war of words has broken out between Negbalee Warner, Chairman of the Liberia Petroleum Refining Company, and his Managing Director, T. Nelson Williams. At issue is a US$25 mill...