Liberia Cannot Afford to Look Away from Its $2.7 Billion Unaccounted Mining Fund

Mar 30, 2026 | FrontPage Africa
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Liberia is once again confronted with a painful truth: a nation rich in resources, yet poor in results. The latest report by Forest Trends, drawing on data from the Liberia Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, exposes what may be one of the most troubling economic contradictions of our time--a staggering US$2.7 billion discrepancy between what Liberia reports as mineral exports and what the world says it receives.