The Analyst

MONROVIA – After 18 years, Liberia’s anti-corruption fight still confronts a credibility test: can enforcement punish graft without sacrificing fairness? The Li…

MONROVIA – Ben Sanvee has delivered an emotional message of loyalty to Jewel, praising her compassion, resilience and service behind bars. Writing as a son dete…

MONROVIA – Liberia is returning to the international petroleum market with a clear demand: investors must prove capacity before negotiations begin. The Liberia…

MONROVIA – Musa Hassan Bility’s farewell to Deelay is a story of grief, memory and elders who preserve a community’s shared Liberian history. Through Deelay’s r…

MONROVIA – President Joseph Nyuma Boakai’s Cabinet has placed implementation at the center of its accountability commitments. The decisions cover electronic pro…

Around 2019 and 2020, I began returning home more frequently. For nearly thirty years, I had been disconnected from my hometown and many of the communities that…

MONROVIA – President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has placed his administration’s credibility squarely on two promises under public examination: that Liberia’s drug crac…

MONROVIA – Liberia’s drug investigation has reached the point where arrests alone can no longer secure confidence, especially when state institutions and securi…

Justice Minister N. Oswald Tweh has declared an offensive against drug trafficking, but his address also conceded the institutional weakness at the centre of Li…

MONROVIA – Senator Amara Konneh has offered the Boakai administration credit and a deadline: the cocaine seizure demonstrated political will, but only equal pro…

MONROVIA – 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…

MONROVIA – 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…

MONROVIA – Liberia’s transitional-justice debate has never suffered from a shortage of dialogue; its failure has been the long distance between promises and ins…

MONROVIA – Liberia’s increasingly troubling cocaine saga has crossed the Atlantic and entered the corridors of the United States Congress, with a Washington-bas…

MONROVIA – 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…

MONROVIA – 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…

MONROVIA – 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…

MONROVIA – Liberia’s proud tradition of welcoming strangers is colliding with the hard limits of its own capacity. Prominent lawyer Tiawan Saye Gongloe has weig…

MONROVIA – Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA) Board Chairman Clarence Massaquoi has once again refused to disclose the entity’s revenue collections over…

MONROVIA – 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…

MONROVIA – Clean water has reached hundreds of remote Liberian villages through a charity built largely on diaspora generosity. Friends of Liberia Food and Wate…

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…