The Analyst - For Those Who Strive For Better Liberia

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…

MONROVIA - Senator Amara Konneh has offered the Boakai administration credit and a deadline: the cocaine seizure demonstrated political will, but only equal prosecution can prevent that beginning from collapsing into disappointment.…

MONROVIA - An opposition party has dared the government to live by the fine words of its own Flag Day oration. The opposition Citizens Movement for Change says the speech's lofty principles must be measured against the government's hard…

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…