The Analyst - For Those Who Strive For Better Liberia

A former vice president now sits at the center of Liberia's widening drug investigation, and she is fighting back hard. The office of Jewel Howard-Taylor has categorically denied all charges of drug trafficking read against her. It casts…

A sitting lawmaker has publicly urged President Joseph Nyuma Boakai to abandon any bid for a second term. Nimba County District #7 Representative Musa Hassan Bility issued the appeal in an open letter to the President. Bility, political…

MONROVIA - Liberia's environmental chief has turned a Flag Day tribute into a pointed lesson on civic duty and accountability. His message marks the 179th National Flag Day. In it, Dr. Emmanuel King Urey Yarkpawolo argues that honoring the…

MONROVIA - Liberia's long-delayed reckoning with its wartime past has found fresh urgency in an old national symbol. Marking the 179th Flag Day, the office charged with establishing a war crimes court has pressed lawmakers to act. It wants…

Mr. President, Choose Your Legacy Written from Belgium Mr. President, I write today from Belgium, far from the noise of Monrovia, but with Liberia heavily on my mind. I have known you for a long time. That is why I am writing…

The formal charging of a former vice president marks the sharpest escalation yet in Liberia's widening narcotics inquiry. Jewel Howard-Taylor now stands accused under three separate and serious legal frameworks. Her interception at Roberts…

The rapid gathering of opposition heavyweights outside police headquarters has given Jewel Howard-Taylor's detention an unmistakably political edge. Within hours of her interception, former ministers, senators and party chairmen converged…

A former finance minister has recast Liberia's sprawling drug inquiry as a partisan war rather than an ordinary criminal case. Samuel D. Tweah Jr. accuses the governing Unity Party of weaponizing prosecution to cripple the opposition. His…

A diaspora wing of the opposition has moved the fight over Jewel Howard-Taylor's detention onto the international stage. The Congress for Democratic Change-USA frames her interception as a test of Liberia's commitment to due process. Its…

A demand that the police chief step aside has sharpened the central dilemma of Liberia's cocaine inquiry. The Liberian People's Party argues that no police force can credibly investigate its own top commander. Its call rests on the…