August 2026

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has urged the Liberian Government and development stakeholders to make investment in adolescent girls a national deve…

The Forestry Development Authority (FDA) has formally handed greater responsibility for the management, protection and sustainable use of forest resources to lo…

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MONROVIA, August 25, 2026 — Liberia is expected to cross the US$1 billion mark in domestic revenue for the first time in September, Finance and Development Plan…

GBARNGA, Bong County, August 25, 2026 — The Coalition of Bong Eminent Citizens has called for the immediate release of former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor…

Foreign-policy adviser urges a whole-of-government plan so December’s global spotlight leaves a lasting national legacy

MONROVIA, August 25, 2026 — President Joseph Nyuma Boakai Sr. has urged Liberian youths to reject drugs and remain focused on building their future, warning tha…

PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria, August 24, 2026 — Former Liberian President George M. Weah has warned that democratically elected leaders can gradually become tyrants b…

Two Croatians. A Ukrainian. A Serbian and a Spaniard, charged earlier in the same sprawling case. Long before anyone in Monrovia knew their names, these five me…

MONROVIA, August 25, 2026 — Former Finance Minister Samuel D. Tweah Jr. has warned that the prosecution of former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor over allege…

BUCHANAN, Grand Bassa County, August 25, 2026 — First Lady Kartumu Yarta Boakai has launched a school-based adolescent reproductive health initiative targeting…

MONROVIA, August 25, 2026 — The Liberia Council of Churches (LCC) has called for calm, impartial investigations and respect for due process in ongoing drug case…

One hundred and seventy-nine years ago, seven women stitched a promise into cloth. This Flag Day, as a former Vice President stands charged and a police chief’s…

MONROVIA — Gregory Coleman did not sound like a man bracing to lose his job. He sounded like a man explaining, patiently and at length, why the job was always …

PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria — Former Liberian President George Manneh Weah has delivered a forceful warning against the erosion of democratic institutions in Africa,…

MONROVIA — From the classrooms of BlueCrest University to the international fashion spotlight in Nairobi, Liberia’s Francis A. Dine is preparing to take her run…

MONROVIA – A president’s life has been recast as a teaching text aimed squarely at Liberia’s young. The relaunch of President Joseph Nyuma Boakai’s biography, F…

 MONROVIA – The real test of a president’s biography may lie not on its pages but in young minds. At the relaunch of From Foya to the Capitol, four young …

MONROVIA – Finance Minister Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan used Liberia’s 179th National Flag Day to confront the gap between patriotic display and national duty. His…

The relaunch of President Boakai’s biography has sparked a promising push to bring the life stories of Liberia’s leaders into the classroom. THE ANALYST welcome…

MONROVIA – A former Liberian president has leveled a blunt charge at Africa’s elected leaders: many are tyrants in democratic disguise. Addressing Nigeria’s lar…

A former vice president now sits at the center of Liberia’s widening drug investigation, and she is fighting back hard. The office of Jewel Howard-Taylor has ca…

A sitting lawmaker has publicly urged President Joseph Nyuma Boakai to abandon any bid for a second term. Nimba County District #7 Representative Musa Hassan Bi…

MONROVIA – Liberia’s environmental chief has turned a Flag Day tribute into a pointed lesson on civic duty and accountability. His message marks the 179th Natio…