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Monrovia - Liberia’s justice system cannot prosecute corruption, organized crime or wartime abuses when witnesses fear retaliation for telling the truth. The Witness Protection Agency’s proposed amendments therefore address a weakness that…

MONROVIA - George Manneh Weah returns to Liberia at a moment when the country’s drug crisis has broken through the walls of law enforcement and entered the centre of national politics. Two cocaine seizures, the implication of security…

MONROVIA - Liberia’s peace remains vulnerable whenever public officials inject ethnic grievance into court proceedings already charged with political emotion. Information Minister Jerolinmek Matthew Piah’s warning reaches beyond one…

MONROVIA - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s praise of Emmanuel K. Urey Yarkpawolo carries a message larger than one official’s professional record. It elevates national service at a time when Liberia continues losing skilled citizens to…

MONROVIA - A Sunday prison visit intended as a personal show of solidarity with detained former Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor has widened into a blunt political challenge to the government’s handling of Liberia’s deepening narcotics…

MONROVIA - By hosting the Africa College of Bishops Meeting for the first time, Liberia gains a continental platform. The United Methodist gathering centers faith, leadership and institutional reflection. Thirteen active bishops, five…

MONROVIA - Former President George Manneh Weah’s effort to bring Liberia’s opposition leaders around one table has received a significant response, with Citizens Movement for Change Political Leader Musa Hassan Bility formally accepting an…

MONROVIA - President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has placed his administration’s credibility squarely on two promises under public examination: that Liberia’s drug crackdown will spare no powerful person, and that former Vice President Jewel…

MONROVIA - Liberia’s drug investigation has reached the point where arrests alone can no longer secure confidence, especially when state institutions and security actors have themselves appeared in allegations surrounding the trafficking…

Justice Minister N. Oswald Tweh has declared an offensive against drug trafficking, but his address also conceded the institutional weakness at the centre of Liberia’s cocaine crisis: seizures demonstrate enforcement success while…