The Analyst - For Those Who Strive For Better Liberia

MONROVIA - The Ministry of Mines and Energy has activated a gold traceability training program intended to strengthen Liberia’s artisanal mining sector, improve accountability and track gold from its point of production through trading and…

MONROVIA - Liberia has moved to loosen decades of centralized control over how it runs its ports. President Joseph N. Boakai has now signed two long-debated port autonomy bills into law. The legislation now grants operational…

By Musa Hassan Bility - (In Philly) An Open Message to CAF President Patrice Motsepe and the Presidents of Africa’s 54 Member Associations President Motsepe, members of the CAF Executive Committee, and presidents of Africa’s…

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 enters its twenty-eighth year having outlived the administration that once…

By Stanley Seakor, Managing Editor/Publisher When a small band of us gathered in the closing days of August 1998 to prepare the first edition of THE ANALYST, we did not know whether the paper would see its first birthday, let alone its…

Institutional memory is a newspaper’s quietest, surest defense. The six voices gathered here are not offered as nostalgia. They are testimony. Each veteran survived a different front of the same long struggle for the paper’s life. One…

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 have carried THE ANALYST from a hunted upstart in 1998 to the seasoned watchdog…

Your Excellency: Our “Memo to the President” returns to these pages on the occasion of our twenty-eighth anniversary, and it returns in the plain-spoken temper that first earned it a name. A newspaper that has kept the national watch…

MONROVIA - The return of Musa Hassan Bility to the African football debate is less about one man’s grievance than about control. Who governs the continental game, and on whose mandate? The former Liberia Football Association president has…

MONROVIA - A diaspora dinner is rarely only a dinner, least of all this one. The gathering that closed Liberia’s 179th independence celebrations in Maryland became a forum for self-examination. Its keynote turned an evening of ceremony…