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MONROVIA - Regional courts derive their strength from the competence, independence and integrity of the jurists entrusted with interpreting community law and defending citizens against abuses of power. Liberia’s selection for the Community…

MONROVIA - A single ruling has exposed deep fractures inside Liberia's jury system and its fragile justice architecture. By jailing 15 jurors and voiding Samuel Tweah's acquittal, the Court has framed jury tampering as a threat to…

MONROVIA - A suspected record drug seizure has thrust Liberia's fight against narcotics trafficking back into sharp national focus. Information Minister Jerolinmek Matthew Piah used a routine briefing to project a government determined to…

MONROVIA - President Joseph Nyuma Boakai's optimism about the Liberia–Guinea border question signals more than diplomatic courtesy. It suggests a deliberate strategy of embedding a bilateral dispute within regional architecture rather than…

MONROVIA - Former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has issued a sweeping challenge to world leaders, warning that democracy is retreating before resurgent authoritarianism. Addressing the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC)…

MONROVIA - Amin Modad's “Liberia First” message lands at a moment when economic nationalism is gaining currency across the political spectrum. The former Commerce Minister and former Unity Party Chairman is not merely offering slogans; he…

MONROVIA - Nine years ago, in her Hilton office in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump’s spiritual adviser, Pastor Paula White-Cain, prayed over a visiting Liberian Vice President named Joseph Nyuma Boakai and told him that God said…

MONROVIA - One hundred and seventy-nine years after a determined band of freed settlers gathered in Monrovia to proclaim Africa’s first independent republic, the Government of Liberia has unveiled the official calendar of events for the…

MONROVIA - The Liberian People’s Party (LPP) has bowed in what it calls “revolutionary salute” to its former standard bearer, Dr. Togba-Nah Tipoteh, as the veteran economist, politician, and pan-Africanist marks 85 years of life, struggle,…

By Musa Hassan Bility This morning, I have been thinking about one of the saddest habits in Liberian public life. No matter how serious an issue may be, we make noise about it for a few days, promise an investigation, and then let it go…