President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has approved and signed into law the National Budget for the 2016/2017 fiscal year, which runs from July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2017, in the amount of Six Hundred Million Two Hundred and Four Thousand and Seventy Six United States Dollars (US$600,204,076.00), the same being Fifty Seven Billion Three Hundred Nineteen Million Four Hundred Fifty Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty Seven Liberian Dollars (L$57,319,450,867).

Monrovia, Liberia - The Governments of Liberia and the Chinese EXIM Bank have signed a landmark loan agreement to refurbish the runway and the Terminal of the Robert International Airport (RIA) project in the amount of US $50 million dollars.

Authorities at the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning (MFDP) have announced the sudden death of the Assistant Minister for Budget, Honourable Augustine Kaifa Blama.