The Analyst

The formal charging of a former vice president marks the sharpest escalation yet in Liberia’s widening narcotics inquiry. Jewel Howard-Taylor now stands accused…

The rapid gathering of opposition heavyweights outside police headquarters has given Jewel Howard-Taylor’s detention an unmistakably political edge. Within hour…

A former finance minister has recast Liberia’s sprawling drug inquiry as a partisan war rather than an ordinary criminal case. Samuel D. Tweah Jr. accuses the g…

A diaspora wing of the opposition has moved the fight over Jewel Howard-Taylor’s detention onto the international stage. The Congress for Democratic Change-USA…

A senator’s renewed call for the police chief to step back keeps the cocaine probe at the center of debate. Samuel G. Kogar warns that credibility, not personal…

A new partnership between Liberia’s fisheries regulator and a major humanitarian organization signals a deliberate turn toward investment-led growth. The target…

MONROVIA – The Government of Liberia has entered a one-year arrangement to receive up to 1,200 people removed from the United States. The framework rests on an…

MONROVIA – Nimba County lawmaker Musa Hassan Bility has entered the widening dispute over Liberia’s cocaine investigation. He is defending Senator Amara Konneh…

MONROVIA  – The Gabriel L. Dennis Foreign Service Institute will stage a weeklong program of debates and lectures. The series is tied to Liberia’s coming presid…

MONROVIA – President Joseph Nyuma Boakai’s tourism pledge is moving from rhetoric toward brick and mortar. By breaking ground at Providence Island, his administ…

MONROVIA – Senator Amara Konneh has turned a searing spotlight on how Liberia prosecutes its multimillion-dollar narcotics cases. His central charge is that jus…

MONROVIA – President Joseph Nyuma Boakai’s tourism promise is entering its first serious test of execution. His administration is pairing a new legal framework…

THE LATEST STANDOFF at the University of Liberia is a familiar and dispiriting spectacle. Once again the nation’s premier public university enters a new semeste…

MONROVIA – The survival of an independent newspaper for twenty-eight years is never a matter of longevity alone. In Liberia, it is a political fact. THE ANALYST…

TODAY, at twenty-eight years of unbroken existence, we bow first in gratitude to God Almighty, and then to the readers, business partners and well-wishers who h…

MONROVIA – The nomination of a retired general to lead Liberia’s drug agency has drawn cautious endorsement rather than uncomplicated celebration. Senator Amara…

MONROVIA – An attempt to move young Liberians from the streets to the negotiating table is testing a new model of civic engagement. The Federation of Liberian Y…

MONROVIA – Senator Amara Konneh has reframed Liberia’s drug crisis as a “two-front war” testing the President’s resolve against traffickers and compromised insi…

MONROVIA – The Supreme Court’s refusal to grant Solway an extraordinary writ of error carries weight far beyond a single procedural skirmish. By declining the w…

Alfred Jah Johnson’s demand shifts Liberia’s widening cocaine inquiry from who trafficked the drugs to whether the investigators can themselves be trusted. The…

MONROVIA – As Liberia intensifies its campaign against transnational drug trafficking, the national debate has increasingly expanded beyond law enforcement to i…

MONROVIA – The Nigerian Bar Association’s decision to give former President George Manneh Weah its 2026 keynote platform carries meaning beyond ordinary ceremon…

MONROVIA – The Press Union of Liberia (PUL) has summoned the entire Liberian media community to an emergency special meeting on today, Monday, August 3, as the…