MONROVIA – Liberia’s drug investigation has reached the point where arrests alone can no longer secure confidence, especially when state institutions and securi…
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‘Cartels Will Not Defeat Liberian State’-Justice Minister Defends Government’s Antidrug Record
by adminanalystby adminanalystJustice Minister N. Oswald Tweh has declared an offensive against drug trafficking, but his address also conceded the institutional weakness at the centre of Li…
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‘Selective Justice Kills Public Trust’-Konneh Proposes 90-Day Drug Trials, Independent Security Probe
by adminanalystby adminanalystMONROVIA – Senator Amara Konneh has offered the Boakai administration credit and a deadline: the cocaine seizure demonstrated political will, but only equal pro…
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CMC Demands Consistent Accountability-Party Challenges Ngafuan’s Credibility
by adminanalystby adminanalystMONROVIA – An opposition party has dared the government to live by the fine words of its own Flag Day oration. The opposition Citizens Movement for Change says…
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Maritime Scholarship Opens In China-LiMA Builds Skills for Changing Industry
by adminanalystby adminanalystMONROVIA – Liberia’s maritime reputation will remain incomplete if the country carries one of the world’s most visible flags but lacks Liberians trained to mana…
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PUFPIL Presses Legislature-Demands Laws For Courts And Reconciliation
by adminanalystby adminanalystMONROVIA – Liberia’s transitional-justice debate has never suffered from a shortage of dialogue; its failure has been the long distance between promises and ins…
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Liberia’s Drug Saga Lands in U.S. Congress-PJG Seeks Hearing, Floats Sanctions, Visa Restrictions Where Evidence Warrants
by adminanalystby adminanalystMONROVIA – Liberia’s increasingly troubling cocaine saga has crossed the Atlantic and entered the corridors of the United States Congress, with a Washington-bas…
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Jewel Howard-Taylor Is Jailed-Court Rejects Compassionate Detention Request
by adminanalystby adminanalystMONROVIA – A former vice president has traded the corridors of power for a cell in the Monrovia Central Prison. A city court has ordered Jewel Howard-Taylor jai…
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Make Jewel Treatment Standard for All-ABIC Applauds Police, Demands Equal Care for Every Detainee
by adminanalystby adminanalystMONROVIA – A prominent women’s rights body has turned a former vice president’s illness into a test of Liberia’s conscience. The Angie Brooks International Cent…
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‘Turn Honor Into Impact’-Shoniyin Challenges UN Security Council Presidency
by adminanalystby adminanalystMONROVIA – Liberia is about to hold one of global diplomacy’s most powerful gavels. A veteran envoy wants it used well. Senior Ambassador-at-Large B. Elias Shon…
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Gongloe Weighs in On Foreigner Transfer-Says Generosity Must Match National Capacity
by adminanalystby adminanalystMONROVIA – Liberia’s proud tradition of welcoming strangers is colliding with the hard limits of its own capacity. Prominent lawyer Tiawan Saye Gongloe has weig…
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LTA Chairman Rejects Revenue Disclosure-Says Report Is Only for President Boakai
by adminanalystby adminanalystMONROVIA – Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA) Board Chairman Clarence Massaquoi has once again refused to disclose the entity’s revenue collections over…
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Dr. Dougbeh Nyan Joins Lassa Fever Meeting-Calls for Home-Grown Research Funding Support
by adminanalystby adminanalystMONROVIA – A Liberian scientist has taken a seat at the table where West Africa plans its defense against a deadly virus. Dr. Dougbeh Christopher Nyan is in Abu…
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Charity Completes Water Pumps-Effort Leans Heavily On Diaspora Funding
by adminanalystby adminanalystMONROVIA – Clean water has reached hundreds of remote Liberian villages through a charity built largely on diaspora generosity. Friends of Liberia Food and Wate…
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Boakai’s ‘From Foya to the Capitol’ Relaunched-Lessons in Faith, Service and Patriotism Unveiled
by adminanalystby adminanalystMONROVIA – 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…
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Life Story Inspires Students-Embrace Patriotism, Hard Work and Honesty from Boakai’s Book
by adminanalystby adminanalystMONROVIA – 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 …
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Ngafuan Proposes Patriotic Covenant-Urges Country Above Party, Tribe, Self
by adminanalystby adminanalystMONROVIA – Finance Minister Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan used Liberia’s 179th National Flag Day to confront the gap between patriotic display and national duty. His…
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Teach Liberia’s Presidents in Schools – But Tell the Whole Truth
by adminanalystby adminanalystThe 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…
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Weah Unmasks Disguised Tyranny-Says Ballot Winners Can Also Become Despots
by adminanalystby adminanalystMONROVIA – A former Liberian president has leveled a blunt charge at Africa’s elected leaders: many are tyrants in democratic disguise. Addressing Nigeria’s lar…
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Former VP Office Rejects Drug Allegations-Accuses State Of Evidence Fabrication
by adminanalystby adminanalystA 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…
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Bility Challenges Boakai’s Re-election-Presses for One-Term Presidency, Questions GoL On Drugs
by adminanalystby adminanalystA 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…
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‘Pledge Is Promise, Not Mere Recital’-EPA Boss Says No Office Escapes Pledge, From Sweeper to President
by adminanalystby adminanalystMONROVIA – 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…
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OWECC-L Ramps Up Pressure for Justice Bills-Says Victims Still Await Formal Criminal Accountability
by adminanalystby adminanalystMONROVIA – Liberia’s long-delayed reckoning with its wartime past has found fresh urgency in an old national symbol. Marking the 179th Flag Day, the office char…
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I write today from Belgium, far from the noise of Monrovia, but with Liberia heavily on my mind.