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GBOR JIMMY TOWN – A community forest in Grand Bassa County has threatened to stop a logging company’s operation for fail...
03/07/2025

GBOR JIMMY TOWN – A community forest in Grand Bassa County has threatened to stop a logging company’s operation for failing to deliver on development projects, barely two months after protesting for the same reason.

The Grand Bassa District 3 B&C Community Forest has vowed to stop the West Water Group Liberia’s operations for failing to deliver on community projects.

Top: Community Assembly members are drafting a resolution to present to the Grand Bassa County authorities. The DayLight/Franklin Nehyalor

GBARMUE – Townspeople in a B**g clan have registered their homes to own the land on which their houses sit. It is the fi...
01/07/2025

GBARMUE – Townspeople in a B**g clan have registered their homes to own the land on which their houses sit. It is the first since Liberia passed the Land Rights Act nearly seven years ago.

The law requires communities to set aside residential areas in parts of customary land for homes and protect residents’ rights, but, until now, this provision has not been enforced since it was established in 2018.

Top: A townsman speaks with the Land Authority and Parley Liberia fieldworker in Gbarmue, a town in the Jorpolu Clan, Jorquelleh District in B**g County. The

MONROVIA – A bold, new signboard brandishes the phrase: “Ministry of Mines and Energy.” The walls glitter with freshly p...
26/06/2025

MONROVIA – A bold, new signboard brandishes the phrase: “Ministry of Mines and Energy.” The walls glitter with freshly painted gray and white. Just beyond the lobby, a fenced yard holds items seized from miners. Inside, lighted corridors beam with hope and accountability.

These are part of a sectoral reform Minister Wilmot Paye is instituting for a bewildered yet promising mining sector. In an exclusive interview with The DayLight, Paye explains the reform, which ranges from employees’ productivity to combating illicit activities.

MONROVIA – A bold, new signboard brandishes the phrase: “Ministry of Mines and Energy.” The walls glitter with freshly painted gray and white. Just beyond th...

MONROVIA – A Montserrado court has begun preliminary hearings into a case against two suspected timber smugglers, expose...
08/06/2025

MONROVIA – A Montserrado court has begun preliminary hearings into a case against two suspected timber smugglers, exposed in a DayLight interview.

MONROVIA - A Montserrado court has begun preliminary hearings into a case against two suspected timber smugglers, exposed in a DayLight interview.

MONROVIA – Multiple government agencies are investigating a Lebanese businessman for allegedly committing forestry, fina...
01/06/2025

MONROVIA – Multiple government agencies are investigating a Lebanese businessman for allegedly committing forestry, financial, and immigration crimes. The news comes after a DayLight investigation found that Moussa Abdul Karim, the owner of several companies, smuggled timber, evaded taxes, and declared multiple nationalities, winning a World Bank contract worth nearly half a million dollars.

MONROVIA – Multiple government agencies are investigating a Lebanese businessman for allegedly committing forestry, financial, and immigration crimes.

BUCHANAN, Grand Bassa – Over the weekend, Vice President Jeremiah Koung dedicated Krish Veneer Industries, perhaps the l...
29/05/2025

BUCHANAN, Grand Bassa – Over the weekend, Vice President Jeremiah Koung dedicated Krish Veneer Industries, perhaps the largest sawmill in Liberia.

It might have been Krish’s dedication; however, the company has been in the news several times over noncompliance with the law. The DayLight has compiled these well-documented facts about Krish with supporting evidence:

BUCHANAN, Grand Bassa – Over the weekend, Vice President Jeremiah Koung dedicated Krish Veneer Industries, perhaps the largest sawmill in Liberia.

• ArcelorMittal Liberia gave the Gba Community Forest US$150,000 to clear 450 acres for a waste plant, but locals misuse...
27/05/2025

• ArcelorMittal Liberia gave the Gba Community Forest US$150,000 to clear 450 acres for a waste plant, but locals misused the money.

• Gba and Westwood Corporation signed an MoU to clear-cut the area anyway to make up for the stolen funds.

• The deal includes an unspecified number of logs that a previous company had allegedly illegally harvested, costing the government revenue.

• FDA authorized Westwood to skip harvesting requirements, including a mapping and GPS-recording of trees, undoing the immediate past administration’s legal order.

• Westwood exported the timber to Italy, though the harvesting breaks Liberia’s timber trade agreement with the European Union.

GBAPA, Nimba County – A cleared patch of the Gba Community Forest, a rocky conservation woodland, welcomes visitors to Sehyi Geh Town.

Masterful tribute to the fallen John T. Woods by Bai Best of the Liberian Observer Online.
27/05/2025

Masterful tribute to the fallen John T. Woods by Bai Best of the Liberian Observer Online.

John T. Woods, Liberia's pioneering natural resource economist, passed away, leaving a legacy of ethical governance, sustainable resource management, and dedication to Liberia's development.

In 2023, Mak Enterprises won a bid to construct the fisheries department at the University of Liberia, valued at nearly ...
25/05/2025

In 2023, Mak Enterprises won a bid to construct the fisheries department at the University of Liberia, valued at nearly US$500,000, provided by the World Bank.

Mak’s owner, Moussa Abdul Karim, smuggles timber, including a US$350,000 consignment a year before the bid.

Between 2017 and 2025, Karim evaded payments for work and resident permits, bringing into question Mak Enterprises’ eligibility for the contract.

Official documents identify Karim as a Lebanese. However, Immigration authorities revealed Karim also holds a Guinean passport—another offense.

Authorities say they would investigate Karim.

On March 29, a crowd gathered at the University of Liberia’s Fendell campus for the handover of its department of fisheries and aquaculture sciences.

JORPOLU CLAN, B**g County – In 2018, Liberia passed the Land Rights Act. The historic legislation grants communities and...
13/05/2025

JORPOLU CLAN, B**g County – In 2018, Liberia passed the Land Rights Act. The historic legislation grants communities and women customary ownership of ancestral land, putting an end to decades of deprivation.

About seven years on, men who use age-old traditional beliefs still deny their female relatives access to land. The DayLight interviewed half a dozen women in the B**g County clan of Jorpolu in the Zota-Panta District with heart-wrenching experiences.

In 2018, Liberia passed the Land Rights Act. It grants communities and women customary ownership of ancestral land, putting an end to decades of deprivation.

13/05/2025

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The investigation found that Finch General is not registered in the Ajman business registry, as African Finch’s legal do...
12/05/2025

The investigation found that Finch General is not registered in the Ajman business registry, as African Finch’s legal documents claim. Finch General is not even recorded in the UAE’s database. Further search in the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) Aleph, one of the world’s largest databases of companies, got the same result.

MONROVIA – In May last year, African Finch Logging Limited was established to trade timber and other forest products, according to its legal documents.

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