The Analyst

The 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…

MONROVIA – A former Liberian president has leveled a blunt charge at Africa’s elected leaders: many are tyrants in democratic disguise. Addressing Nigeria’s lar…

A 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…

A 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…

MONROVIA – 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…

MONROVIA – 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…

I write today from Belgium, far from the noise of Monrovia, but with Liberia heavily on my mind.

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 demand that the police chief step aside has sharpened the central dilemma of Liberia’s cocaine inquiry. The Liberian People’s Party argues that no police forc…

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…