The Analyst - For Those Who Strive For Better Liberia

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 manage the technology, regulation and policy behind it. The Liberia Maritime…

MONROVIA - Liberia’s transitional-justice debate has never suffered from a shortage of dialogue; its failure has been the long distance between promises and institutions capable of delivering truth, accountability and redress. At PUFPIL’s…

MONROVIA - Liberia’s increasingly troubling cocaine saga has crossed the Atlantic and entered the corridors of the United States Congress, with a Washington-based justice organization asking lawmakers to investigate whether transnational…

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 jailed while facing sweeping drug-trafficking, conspiracy and money-laundering…

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 Centre has publicly praised the police for rushing former Vice President Jewel…

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 Shoniyin has urged the nation to treat its coming UN Security Council presidency as…

MONROVIA - Liberia's proud tradition of welcoming strangers is colliding with the hard limits of its own capacity. Prominent lawyer Tiawan Saye Gongloe has weighed in on the government's decision to receive 1,200 foreigners transferred…

MONROVIA - Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA) Board Chairman Clarence Massaquoi has once again refused to disclose the entity’s revenue collections over the past year, insisting that he is accountable only to the President and not…

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 Abuja for a regional workshop on Lassa fever. The gathering aims to turn scattered…

MONROVIA - Clean water has reached hundreds of remote Liberian villages through a charity built largely on diaspora generosity. Friends of Liberia Food and Water has announced the completion of 400 modern hand pumps. Most stand in…