The Analyst

Monrovia – There are birthdays bought with imported wine and gold-rimmed invitation cards, and then there is the one Liberia watched on its phones this week. Wh…

Monrovia – Liberia’s mining sector is expanding faster than the institutions meant to police it. That is the warning at the heart of CENTAL’s latest interventio…

Monrovia – Liberia’s 2027 budget begins with a hole already in it. Finance Minister Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan opened the Executive Budget Hearings on Thursday wit…

Monrovia – The Fund’s board approved about US$50 million after reviewing Liberia’s Extended Credit and Resilience facilities. Deputy Information Minister Daniel…

Monrovia – The Public Procurement and Concessions Commission (PPCC) is looking abroad to strengthen how Liberia buys. Executive Director Bodger Scott Johnson ha…

Monrovia – Liberia has used its place at the Security Council to restate a position it first took in 1947. Prutus Sackie, Liberia’s Political Coordinator to the…

MONROVIA – He was born in the swamps of Clara Town, where the tide crept into the houses and dreams were meant to drown with it. Sixty years later, George …

MONROVIA – The World Bank has told Liberian journalists their work is part of national infrastructure. Country Manager Georgia Wallen made the case at the Press…

MONROVIA – The government brought two messages to the Press Union of Liberia’s (PUL) 62nd anniversary. One was warm congratulations. The other was a reminder th…

MONROVIA – Liberia has no nuclear weapons, yet its message at the United Nations (UN) was aimed at those who do. Ambassador Lewis G. Brown II told a high-level…

MONROVIA – For years, Liberia’s payment networks largely worked in separate lanes. The Central Bank of Liberia (CBL) says that is changing. Executive Governor H…

MONROVIA – A right citizens do not know they have is a right they cannot use. That was the working premise of the Independent Information Commission (IIC) on Mo…

Ms Georgia Wallen, Country Manager, World Bank Group Liberia

MONROVIA – President Joseph Nyuma Boakai took his government’s report card to Liberians abroad. At a town hall in Olney, Maryland, he asked the Diaspora to move…

MONROVIA – George Manneh Weah turns 60 on October 1, and he has chosen prayer over a party. The former president is turning his birthday into a Day of Prayer …

MONROVIA – Liberia writes a new development plan almost every time it changes government. Dr. Emmanuel K. Urey Yarkpawolo wants that habit broken by law. The En…

We accordingly adopt and issue this Joint Communiqué, outlining our common purpose, shared concerns about the direction of national governance, and commitment t…

MONROVIA – Sixty-two years after its founding, the Press Union of Liberia takes to the streets once again. Journalists march this morning from the University of…

MONROVIA – Liberia’s civil society wants the state to carry a small share of its keep. A coalition of CSOs and elders wants 0.1 percent of the national budget s…

MONROVIA – Research cited by the Liberia Pharmacy Board says more than half of sick people may first seek help at a pharmacy counter. That makes the medicine st…

MONROVIA – Liberia’s vocational schools are finally teaching on the equipment employers actually use. The €10 million Strengthening Integration through Vocation…

DULLES, Virginia – President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has taken his U.S. schedule to the office that keeps Liberia’s flag on the world’s oceans. He visited the Virgi…

MONROVIA – Former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor has spent 41 days under state restraint. That duration has become a constitutional question in its own righ…

MONROVIA – Former General Services Agency (GSA) Director General Mary T. Broh has handed the Saudi rice trial defense a useful line. Testifying on Monday before…