By: Wonderr Koryenen Freeman, Attorney, CFCS This December (2025) the Liberian government passed three major concession agreements—simultaneously. These included the Ivanhoe Atlantic (formerly HPX), alongside separate offshore exploration contracts with TotalEnergies and Oranto Petroleum. It was interesting to note that the simultaneous passage of three investment deals raised the specter of due diligence adequacy and public scrutiny. This is especially necessary within the context of Liberia’s
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By Ansony Sieh Since the end of Liberia’s civil war and the return to democratic governance in 2006, the country has been caught in a political loop—one dominated almost exclusively by two major parties: the Unity Party (UP) and the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC). These two entities have alternated power for nearly two decades, each entering office with promises of transformation, and each leaving behind
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Wonderr K. Freeman, Attorney, CFCS Liberia prides itself on being the first independent African nation. Its citizens are never shy of brandishing their 177-year-old sovereign country. Yet, every time a major crime occurs in Liberia, surprisingly, this sovereign nation almost always calls for an “independent” foreign investigation. When one considers the repeated calls for independent foreign inquiry, one is hard-pressed to think, ‘What’s the problem with
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by Wonderr K. Freeman, Mon, Lib Originally Published in December 2017 In the Hillary Clinton vs Donald Trump match-up [2016], Michelle Obama made the famous quip that “when they go low, we go high”. Of course, the “low” was a reference to Trump’s bare-knuckle, no-smear-barred style of campaigning. And the “high” was Clinton sticking’s to the issues and the script. Unfortunately, judging from how the American
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