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July 10, 2025
Trump’s remark praising Liberia’s president for speaking “beautiful English” draws criticism and confusion in the country.
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December 29, 2023
More than 40 died in Liberia after a leaking fuel tanker exploded as people tried to collect gasoline.
November 19, 2023
Liberian President George Weah conceded defeat to challenger Joseph Boakai late Friday after provisional results showed he was down.
February 21, 2023
A U.K. Foreign Office document describes a network of illicit sawmills, off-the-books exports and payments made to the Liberian forestry…
January 25, 2023
Since 2000, some 22% of Liberia's tree cover has been lost to deforestation, largely due to pressure from logging and…
Liberia thegrio.com
February 14, 2022
The Biden admin sends a delegation to the West African nation to celebrate 200 years since the arrival of the…
January 21, 2021
A new Biden executive order reverses Trump's hardline stance on the expansion of immigration within America's borders.
July 28, 2020
The U.S. establishment of Liberia in West Africa is emblematic of the pervasiveness of American anti-Blackness, says theGrio's Christina M.…
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April 29, 2019
Alfred Brownell called out a company that processed the material, which disenfranchises people in rural Liberia and in the process…
Candidate George Leah votes in Liberian Run Off Elections thegrio.com
January 22, 2018
Former international football star George Weah beat outgoing vice president Joseph Boakai in a stunning election runoff to replace Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa's first…
May 16, 2017
“I am moving back to Liberia.” The words shocked me to say out loud. But after 26 years in the
June 27, 2016
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama landed in Africa on Monday with her daughters and her mother for…
June 26, 2016
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Michelle Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia are leaving Sunday for Africa, where they will promote girls’
November 20, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is offering immigrants from the three countries at the center of West Africa’s Ebola crisis
November 12, 2014
The family of the deceased Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan has at last settled with the Dallas hospital that initially
October 18, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - The spreading Ebola outbreak continues to dominate the news, and as with every major story, conspiracy theories…
October 12, 2014
DALLAS (AP) — Ebola victim, Thomas E. Duncan, said he’d recently traveled from West Africa, was in severe pain —
October 11, 2014
The first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States died Wednesday, more than a week after public-health authorities confirmed…
October 7, 2014
OPINION - OMG EBOLA IS HERE! EVERYBODY PANIC. No. Don’t. I’m just kidding. Although many people already have started, so…
October 6, 2014
Top government health officials say they are opposed to placing a ban on travelers from Ebola-infected countries, warning that shutting…