Liberia’s Mining Law Faces Major Overhaul as House Panel Flags Legal Gaps
CAPITOL HILL, Monrovia — Liberia’s 2000 Mining and Minerals Law faces a comprehensive overhaul as lawmakers confront growing concerns over ...
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Kromah Vows Drone and Satellite Raids on Illegal Mining Sites
MONROVIA — Liberia will deploy drones, satellite reconnaissance and joint military and police units against illegal mining sites nationwide, seizing ...
Who Shut Wilmot Paye’s Mouth? Promised Mining Corruption Documents Remain Unseen After Vice President Koung’s Visits
MONROVIA — Two weeks ago, Wilmot Paye vowed to name the officials looting Liberia's mineral wealth; today, after two meetings ...
Liberia Losing US$1.6 Billion in Smuggled Gold, Minister Warns
MONROVIA — Liberia may be losing as much as US$1.6 billion worth of gold to illegal cross-border smuggling, Mines and ...
House Opens Sweeping Review of Mining Law as Officials Push Tougher Crackdown on Illegal Mining
CAPITOL HILL, Monrovia – The House of Representatives has begun a major review of the country’s Minerals and Mining Law, ...
Mines & Energy Minister Says Grand Bassa Oil Find Is Contaminated Waste Oil, NOCAL Wants Further Testing
CAPITOL HILL, Monrovia — Liberia's brush with an onshore oil discovery remains unresolved after Mines and Energy Minister R. Matenokay ...
Govt Arrests Chinese Nationals, Seizes Excavators in Illegal Mining Raid
GBARPOLU COUNTY — Liberian enforcement officers seized two excavators and detained several suspects, including a group of Chinese nationals, during ...
Paye: National Minerals Company was our idea
MONROVIA – Former Minister of Mines and Energy Wilmot J.M. Paye has accused current officials at the Ministry of Mines ...
Insufficient Funding Fuels Weak Enforcement, Threatens Chimpanzees, Biodiversity in Liberia’s National Parks
MONROVIA, Liberia – Insufficient budgetary support to conservation efforts is said to be impeding the effective protection of national parks ...
Ex-Mines & Energy Minister Wilmot Paye: ‘Government Is a Borrowed Coat’
MONROVIA — Former Mines and Energy Minister Wilmot Paye says he holds no resentment over his removal from President Joseph ...
