By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on The Liberian Investigator
Liberia’s Finance and Development Planning Minister Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan defended the use of public revenue and ongoing projects in response to criticism of the country’s revenues. At the inauguration of a World Bank-funded water main, he said even $5 billion would not be enough to solve Liberia’s problems, reports The Liberian Investigator.
Development projects under the World Bank-supported SOCO programme are to resume in northern Ghana and the Oti Region after Ghana’s Ministry of Finance released funding. Contractors are preparing to return to the sites, national coordinator Elizabeth Ohenewa Agyei said at a meeting in Nalerigu on 27 October 2026.
🇬🇭 Ghana · Source: MyJoyOnline ·
Mining company Bea Mountain reportedly lifted 16.4 million gallons of diesel without paying the corresponding petroleum taxes, owing Liberia $1.8 million, according to Senator Amara M. Konneh. The Senate committee examining the levies says 21 of the 25 importers reviewed paid less than they owed; it has asked the Finance Minister to justify within 72 hours the exemption claimed by the company, reports The Liberian Investigator.
🇱🇷 Liberia · Source: The Liberian Investigator ·
Liberian representative Prince Toles challenged his predecessor Moses Acarus Gray to present his record from 12 years in Parliament in Montserrado’s District 8. The latest exchange follows Gray’s criticism of Toles’s performance, The Liberian Investigator reports.
🇱🇷 Liberia · Source: The Liberian Investigator ·
Liberian lawyer Alfred Lahai Gbabai Brownell will share the 2026 Elisabeth Haub Award for Environmental Law and Diplomacy with American Durwood Zaelke. Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University will present the award at a ceremony in New York, streamed online, reports The Liberian Investigator.
🇱🇷 Liberia · Source: The Liberian Investigator ·
Liberian government says Monrovia’s Waterside Market will not be clearedLiberian authorities said Waterside Market in Monrovia would not be cleared, after hundreds of traders worried about the removal of their stalls marched in protest. Only those blocking the main road will be moved during Vai Town Road works, scheduled to continue until July 2027, and the 15 seized stalls will be returned, FrontPageAfrica reports.
500 youths trained in Daloa for Ivory Coast construction projectsIn Daloa, 500 volunteer trainees have completed training in trades including masonry, electrical work and agropastoral activities, Ivory Coast’s Youth Minister Mamadou Touré announced. They are to continue learning for three months, and the ministry wants to connect them with companies working on major projects, according to Lintelligent d’Abidjan.The week in Africa
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