The Analyst - For Those Who Strive For Better Liberia

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…

MONROVIA - A president's life has been recast as a teaching text aimed squarely at Liberia's young. The relaunch of President Joseph Nyuma Boakai's biography, From Foya to the Capitol, doubled as the launch of a wider ambition. Its…

 MONROVIA - The real test of a president's biography may lie not on its pages but in young minds. At the relaunch of From Foya to the Capitol, four young students became the unexpected heart of the program. Each drew a lesson from…

MONROVIA - Finance Minister Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan used Liberia’s 179th National Flag Day to confront the gap between patriotic display and national duty. His proposed ‘Patriotic Covenant’ framed the Lone Star as a test of conduct:…

The relaunch of President Boakai's biography has sparked a promising push to bring the life stories of Liberia's leaders into the classroom. THE ANALYST welcomes the idea, but warns it will serve the nation only if every president is…

MONROVIA - A former Liberian president has leveled a blunt charge at Africa's elected leaders: many are tyrants in democratic disguise. Addressing Nigeria's largest gathering of lawyers, George Manneh Weah warned that the gravest threat to…