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MONROVIA – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf turns 88 today, and her life maps almost exactly onto modern Liberia’s upheavals. She survived the 1980 coup that killed most o…

MONROVIA – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has spoken for herself for most of Liberia’s modern history. At 88, her public words now form a record of their own. THE ANALYS…

MONROVIA – Global recognition has arrived, fittingly, on Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s 88th birthday. Forbes Africa has placed her among 15 continental icons in its 1…

TODAY, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2026, Liberia, the continent of Africa and the global democratic community pause to honor an extraordinary statesman, a pioneering…

MONROVIA – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf marks her 88th birthday in the company of Mandela, Nkrumah and Nyerere. A global index, The Data of Everything, lists her among…

MONROVIA – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has used her standing as a Nobel laureate to make a pointed choice. Devex reports that she has nominated the United States Agen…

MONROVIA – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf turns 88 today, and her keynote in Freetown last year reads like a manifesto for the occasion. She told the NALAFEM Summit that…

A TRIBUTE TO A MENTOR: THE WOMAN WHO GAVE LIBERIA BACK ITS DIGNITY

MONROVIA – Justice Minister-designate Cllr. Betty M. Lamin-Blamo has staked her confirmation on a promise Liberia’s justice system has struggled to keep. Prosec…

MONROVIA – A charity launched by a president’s son carries a double weight. Spark Foundation Liberia arrives promising baby kits, computer labs and health suppo…

MONROVIA – Confirmation hearings in Liberia often reward deference. Cllr. Abrahim Boimah Sillah, Sr. arrived with a record instead. Some six weeks into the job…

MONROVIA – Denials are measured by what they leave out. Liberia’s embassy near Abuja has dismissed claims that three staff members are owed salaries. Its wordin…

MONROVIA – A transparency law that citizens cannot name is a law that mostly sleeps. That is the hard finding from Grand Gedeh. Sixteen years after the Freedom…

MONROVIA – A dolphin washed ashore in Monrovia on a Sunday. Residents first tried to push it back to sea. By the time the National Fisheries and Aquaculture Aut…

MONROVIA – Liberia’s monetary credibility goes on trial before the Senate as Euphemia Gbadee Swen-Monmia seeks confirmation as Deputy Governor for Economic Poli…

MONROVIA – Nimba County’s newest unity project has hit its first public fracture, from one of its most prominent sons. Representative Musa Hassan Bility has dis…

MONROVIA – The Boakai administration has chosen to fight on rather than settle with Dr. Dougbeh Christopher Nyan. The Executive Branch has appealed to the Supre…

OUR OLD PEOPLE say you cannot hide a pregnancy with your hand. The Boakai administration declared October the Month of Good Governance, and its own Governance C…

MONROVIA – Students marching through the streets to demand classes are the clearest sign that Liberia’s education system has lost its footing. Representative Mu…

MONROVIA – Liberia Traffic Management Incorporated (LTMI) is once again defending its concession in the court of public opinion. The company has flatly rejected…

MONROVIA – Many Liberians dismiss politics as a dirty game best left to the dishonest. Far too many decent people have simply walked away. Dr. Emmanuel K. Urey…

MONROVIA – The Governance Commission (GC) invited the Press Union of Liberia (PUL) to discuss transparency. It got a stinging indictment instead. PUL President…

MONROVIA – For nearly seven decades, much of Monrovia’s water has flowed through a pipeline laid in 1958. Next week, the Liberia Water and Sewer Corporation (LW…

MONROVIA – Liberia has no confirmed Ebola case. Yet the virus is now a flight away. Nigeria’s first case, confirmed in Abuja on October 20, traveled from the DR…