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09/10/2025

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07/10/2025

GAYPUE TOWN, Grand Bassa County – Local leaders in a Grand Bassa community forest have seized a logging company’s equipment for failing to pay their benefits.

Locals seized six West Water Group (Liberia) Inc.’s earthmovers, obstructing the company’s operations in the District Three B&C Community Forest in Grand Bassa.

Top: West Water’s camp in Tonwein, Nimba County. The DayLight/Gerald Koinyeneh

05/10/2025

Korniga ‘A’ Authorized Community Forest in Gbarpolu County is demanding $4 million from Coveiyalah Investment Enterprises for unfulfilled promises before renewing a 15-year logging contract. Community leaders say the company failed to build promised hand pumps, schools, bridges, and a health cen...

29/09/2025

MONROVIA – Forestry authorities have approved a logging contract for African Finch Logging Limited, despite the company’s unknown ownership and link to a Sinoe lawmaker.

Following The DayLight series in April and May, African Finch operations appeared to have been temporarily halted. However, some five months later, it is on the verge of harvesting logs in the 18,000-hectare forest.

Top: An operator in a Sinoe County Forest in 2017. Picture credit: James Harding Giahyue

22/09/2025

“This is a victory for Liberian journalism,” said James Harding Giahyue, DayLight’s Director/Managing Editor, who conducted the investigation. “Our team, partners and networks need this motivation, as we hold extractive and environmental actors to account.”

Top: The DayLight was established in 2020 and began publishing in 2021.

22/09/2025

20/09/2025

BALLAH’S TOWN, Grand Cape Mount County – A woman, who lost a leg in an accident involving a Mano Palm Oil Industries vehicle, received US$120,000 for damages.

In May last year, a Mano vehicle swerved off the Babangida Highway and hit Bendu Sonii, a casual laborer with the Lebanese-owned company. Doctors at the St. Joseph Catholic Hospital amputated Sonii’s right leg, which was severely injured in the accident.

Top: Bendu Sonii received US$120,000 from Mano Palm Oil Industries as damages for an accident that left her with one leg. The DayLight/Harry Browne

18/09/2025

CHEBIOH TOWN, Sinoe County – When Andrew Saye learned that security forces wanted him out of the Sapo National Park, he grew nervous. He was in for a big surprise.

Joint security forces, including the soldiers, police officers and forest rangers, removed Saye without using any force. He was among some 2,000 illegal occupants, predominantly miners, who were removed from the park earlier last month.

“They talked to us well,” said Saye, who stayed seven months in Sapo. He spoke in an interview in Chebioh Town, one of the communities adjacent to the park. “They did not beat us.”

Top: A drone picture of the Sapo National Park. The DayLight/Carlucci Cooper

17/09/2025

SEEKON – Two DayLight reporters narrowly escaped a masked dancer last Wednesday in the Seekon Pellokon Community Forest in Sinoe County.

Reporters Esau Farr and Carlucci Cooper were covering a contract-signing ceremony the next day as part of an investigation when a masked dancer, commonly known as “country devil,” approached.

“It was a terrifying experience, as we thought we had come to the end of our journalism careers,” said Farr, a senior reporter with the newspaper. “My stomach stirred uncontrollably when I heard the sound of the masked dancer.”

Top: Pellokon Town in the Seekon District, Sinoe County. The DayLight/Esau Farr

15/09/2025

KORJAYEE, Sinoe County – Joint security forces have seized a slew of banned substances from illegal occupants in the Sapo National Park, dismantling a major,...

15/09/2025

KORJAYEE, Sinoe County – Joint security forces have seized a slew of banned substances from illegal occupants in the Sapo National Park, dismantling a major, decades-long illicit drug hub.

Last month, soldiers, police, anti-drug agents, border officers, and forest rangers deployed at “Camp America,” one of the 13 known illegal settlements in the park. So far, some 2,000 people have been removed from the area, and with them an array of drugs from occupants.

Top: Ma*****na joint security forces seized from illicit miners in the Sapo National Park. Filed picture/Joint Security

11/09/2025

Monrovia – Joint security forces have removed over 2,000 illegal occupants from the Sapo National Park in a crackdown on transnational crimes and regional insecurity.

A report on “Operation Restore Hope IV,” seen by The DayLight, said the forces had full control over “Camp America,” one of the park’s 13 illegal settlements. It said soldiers had set up camps at one location each in Sinoe, Grand Gedeh and River Gee.

Top: Some of the over 2,000 illegal occupants the Armed Forces of Liberia removed from the Sapo National Park in Sinoe County, so far. Filed pictures/Joint