Iron Chains of Injustice: Holding ArcelorMittal Accountable

THANK YOU, AMBASSADOR KOUYATEH Former Ambassador Sheikh Al-Moustapha Kouyateh has called on Liberians to resist the country's concession agreements and demanded they be renegotiated, as reported by The Liberian Investigator (21 October 2026): https://liberianinvestigator.com/kouyateh-liberia-concession-agreements-renegotiation/ He questioned extending and renegotiating the agreements with ArcelorMittal Liberia and Bea Mountain Mining Corporation, and said no extension should be approved without a full assessment of the financial returns, jobs, infrastructure and benefits each company has provided to affected communities. His words deserve to be heard in full: "There is nothing called concession that will benefit Liberia." "Revolution does not mean violence. Revolution means resistance: resistance to lies, resistance to continued poverty, resistance to maltreatment, resistance to injustice." "The people will not continue to endure ...

MR. VICE PRESIDENT — MEASURE YOUR WORDS AT HOME A CorporateWatch Liberia critique of Vice President Jeremiah Kpan Koung's Accra address to the Africa Minerals Policy Forum (19 October 2026, as reported by The New Dawn) As reported by The New Dawn (20 October 2026, by Lincoln G. Peters — https://www.thenewdawnliberia.com/koung-pushes-africas-mineral-sovereignty/), in Accra, Vice President Jeremiah Kpan Koung spoke the language of mineral sovereignty: fair returns, protected communities, safeguards never weakened, revenues never surrendered. "Our countries should not have to weaken safeguards or surrender reasonable revenues to attract investment." Mining communities, he said, must be central beneficiaries, and partnerships "should be assessed by the skills transferred, businesses developed, industries established and public value created." CorporateWatch Liberia welcomes every one of those sentences — and measures them against the record of his...