The Analyst - For Those Who Strive For Better Liberia

MONROVIA - Gbarpolu County Senator Amara M. Konneh voted for Liberia's Cybercrime Act. Now he is drawing a line around how it is used. The law now faces its first major test. He says satire, parody and criticism of officials are protected…

MONROVIA - Former Foreign Minister Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah, Sr. has carried Liberia's quarrel over accountability to an international peace platform. He addressed a virtual summit on the International Day of Peace. He warned that…

MONROVIA - Liberia's Mines and Energy Minister has carried a blunt message to American investors: no data, no deal. Speaking in New York, R. Matenokay Tingban said the country cannot bargain well over minerals it has not properly mapped.…

MONROVIA - President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has arrived at the United Nations General Assembly carrying more than a national flag. Liberia now sits on the Security Council, and that seat changes how the world listens to a small West African…

MONROVIA - Finance Minister Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan has taken Liberia's sales pitch to investors gathered on the margins of the UN General Assembly. His message mixed confidence with unusual candor about the country's weaknesses. Growth…

MONROVIA - Former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor's drug case has moved from the courtroom into the court of public opinion. Lenn Eugene Nagbe, chief of staff to former President George Weah, says the state arrested first and is still…

MONROVIA - The opposition's sharpest pen has turned a German philosopher against the Unity Party government. Congress for Democratic Change Secretary General Jefferson Tamba Koijee argues that grievance, rather than any program, powered…

MONROVIA - Liberia is using its Security Council seat to make an argument it learned the hard way. Forests, rivers and minerals can finance war, or they can underwrite a lasting peace. The Environmental Protection Agency's side event in…

MONROVIA - Official observances too often end with speeches, banners and little lasting change. This October, the Governance Commission promises something measurable. A new National Integrity Index will rank public institutions on ethics,…

MONROVIA - For six years, the law creating the Food Authority of Liberia sat on paper while unsafe goods moved freely. Director General Precellia Cherue has spent 18 months turning that paper into an institution. Her record includes burned…