Lower House Conflict Increases
AS BUDGET HEARING STARTS Monrovia, Liberia – A disagreement over the examination of the draft 2025 National Budget caused tensions among members of the house...
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House of Representatives Kicks Off Budget Hearing for Proposed Fiscal Year 2024
Monrovia, Liberia – Acting Minister of Finance and Development Planning (MFDP), Tanneh G. Brunson, urged the House of Representatives to speed their consideration of the...
Majority Bloc Promises to Hold Separate Sessions Ignoring Supreme Court Decision Declaring Actions Illegal
Monrovia, Liberia – Despite a decision by the Supreme Court, the Constitution’s appointed ultimate arbiter of justice, the impasse in the House of Representatives is...
Godfather of Nimba County and former warlord Dies.
Monrovia, Liberia – Former warlord now a politician, Senator Prince Yormie Johnson, has been officially declared deceased at the age of 72. The cause of death...
HoR Majority Bloc Endorse Submitted Budget Communication.
Monrovia, Liberia – Amidst the political exchanges on Capitol Hill, President Joseph Boakai’s budget communication has been approved by the majority group. At Tuesday’s majority bloc meeting, the...
Majority Bloc Suspends Three Minority Members
Monrovia, Liberia – Three lawmakers who support the embattled Speaker, Representatives Edward P. Flomo of Montserrado County District #13, Abu Kamara of District #14, and...
Koffa Trouble Deepens
AS MAJORITY NUMBER INCREASES BY TWO Monrovia, Liberia – The political power struggle of the House of Representatives grew more intense on Tuesday, November 19,...
Koffa Refuse to Bowl to Majority Pressure
“THIS NONESENSE MUST STOP” Monrovia, Liberia – The embattled Speaker of the House of Representatives, J. Fonati Koffa, has informed the legislators from the Majority...
ECOWAS Mediation Team Fails to Resolve Liberia HoR Impasse
Monrovia, Liberia – The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament’s attempts to mediate the political crisis in Liberia’s House of Representatives were unsuccessful...
Supreme Court Rule in HoR Case
Monrovia, Liberia – A warrant of prohibition requested by the minority bloc of Speaker Fonati Koffa has been refused by the Supreme Court Chamber Justice....