Workers at Cocopa Rubber Plantation in Nimba County have once again laid down their tools on claims that the Management is unfairly treating them.

Nimba County District 8 Representative Larry Younquoi has called the attention of the House of Representatives to the "state of insecurity" at the Cocopa Rubber Plantation.

Rebel forces captured the rubber plantation that is Liberia's biggest employer and several other important government strongholds Tuesday. Artillery exchanges were reported Tuesday morning near ...

Photographs by Eddie Mulholland, for the Telegraph, document how President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has surrendered 58 per cent of Liberia's primary rainforest to timber companies.

By Ashoka Mukpo Two prominent union leaders remain in prison a month after the headquarters of the Salala Rubber Corporation in Liberia was set on fire by aggrieved rubber tappers. The pair are ...

Trucks were stuck and were blocking the road. It happens a lot in Nimba, a county in central Liberia where the nation's principal east-west highway spends a lot of time going north and south.

ArcelorMittal, the world’s leading steel producer, has officially opened a cutting-edge iron ore concentrator at the Tokadeh mine in northern Liberia, marking a defining moment in the country’s ...

Upon arriving in Nimba County, Liberia, we were greeted by a group of eager and energetic local citizens who were actively working together to promote violence-free elections in their country in 2017.

Cocopa in Nimba County is owned by the US firm the Liberia Company. The Sinoe Rubber Plantation, at almost 243,000ha, is the biggest rubber concession in Liberia.

The rate of Ebola cases in one part of Liberia, where a certain rubber tree plantation operates, is far lower than in other parts of the country, suggesting that the strategies the company uses to ...

While the security situation in most of Liberia continues to improve, intermittent clashes over the past weeks in Nimba County in Central Liberia have forced some 6,000 people to flee to Saclepea, 230 ...

Estimated cost: $75 million. -- U.S. rubber and tyre company Firestone has had a rubber plantation in Liberia since 1926. The firm's operation has been plagued by accusations of poor working ...