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Editorial: There is a point at which coincidence stops being a credible explanation, and Liberia crossed it this week
IN JUNE, THE country watched a vessel — the IB Atlantic IV — sit off Grand Cape Mount County for the better part of a week while officials debated...
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Put Liberia Before Self
Two opposition alliances in a decade have collapsed for the same reason: leaders who agreed on what they were against, but not on who...
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Give the LACC Its Day in Court
A prosecutor who asks three times for a trial date and never gets one is not the problem with Liberia's fight against corruption. A...
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Editorial: Justice, Not Vengeance
A NEW MINISTER of Justice and a new Solicitor General now sit atop an institution carrying some of the heaviest cases in Liberia's recent...
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Follow The Law on The Books, Then Ask What the Tape Actually Proves
Liberia's Constitution and Penal Code already say what should happen to a secretly recorded conversation. A precedent set in one courtroom this year should...
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The Case Liberia Cannot Afford to Lose Twice
Part Two of FrontPageAfrica’s series raised two warnings in one breath: that justice is moving at different speeds for different Liberians, and that the...
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The Ship We Couldn’t Catch Was Never Just About A Ship
Part One of this newspaper's series on Liberia's cocaine reckoning was not really a story about a vessel, a stash house, or even a...
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If The Law Can Move In Six Days For Her, It Can Move In Six Days For Everyone Else
Liberia now has proof that its government can move fast, produce a detailed writ, and put a household name in front of a judge...
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The Flag Asks for Courage and Purity; This Year, Liberia Owes it Both
One hundred and seventy-nine years ago, seven women stitched a promise into cloth. This Flag Day, as a former Vice President stands charged and...
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The Test Isn’t Jewel Howard-Taylor’s Arrest. It’s Who’s Arrested Next
Arresting a former Vice President took courage. Arresting the serving officers and officials still linked to the same network will take something harder: a...
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A Billion Dollars Is a Number. The Test Is What It Buys
LIBERIA IS ABOUT to do something it has never done in its history: collect more than one billion United States dollars in domestic revenue...