As President Joseph Boakai steps into a new realm of U.S.-Africa relations at this week’s pivotal summit with President Donald Trump, the stakes couldn't be higher.
Recently, Vice President Jeremiah Koung stood at the podium during a landmark event at the Freeport of Monrovia, a ceremony marking Liberia’s first post-war 24-hour marine operations. Flanked by officials from the National Port Authority, Liberia Maritime Authority, and APM Terminals, he did more than offer ceremonial praise. He took a bold stance.
By Monday morning, July 7, 2025, Liberians awoke to the stunning news of a $1.8 billion investment deal signed between the Government of Liberia and HPX, a U.S.-based mining company. It should have been a moment of national celebration, job creation, economic revival, and global investor confidence. Yet, rather than jubilation, the mood was dominated by one unsettling question: Why didn’t our government tell us?
President Joseph Nyuma Boakai is poised to end Liberia's long struggle to achieve transparency, accountability, patriotism, and national reconciliation—an effort that has persistently been stalled for decades.
Over and over again we celebrate Liberia's independence with honoring programs, national decorations, recognition of personalities - dead and alive, speech making which create national debates, banquet and other activities where the high and mighty are showcased. After the celebrations, Liberia still remain the faulty Liberia created on July 26, 1847 with profound divisions on who actually owned Liberia.
From recommending executive appointees to influencing revenue structures and procurement, Senate Pro-Tempore Nyonblee Karnga-Lawrence is leading a dangerous expansion of legislative power that threatens Liberia’s constitutional order.
Over the past few weeks, Liberia, which is recovering from decades of civil upheavals, widespread death and destruction, took a giant step towards national reconciliation, healing, and national unity.
The “Indestructible” Cllr. Kanio Bai Gbala, self-proclaimed "Supreme Ideologue of the Liberia Political Centrism Movement", I read your recent commentary with interest. You speak of centrism as the ability to collaborate across political divides, to foster patriotism, and to promote national development.
While President Joseph Boakai’s government continues its high-profile actions against corruption, another tribunal is quietly convening, on radio talk shows, in market stalls, at motorbike parks, and across Liberia’s robust social media landscape. In these spaces, the true pulse of the anti-corruption fight is felt, not just through policy, but through perception.
Liberia’s history bears the deep scars of public protests-many of which, while rooted in legitimate grievances, descended into violence and yielded few, if any, immediate political gains. From the infamous 1979 Rice Riots to the cascading unrests that followed throughout the 1980s and 1990s, mass demonstrations often resulted in tragic loss of life, widespread destruction of public and private property, and further hardship for ordinary Liberians, particularly the poor and vulnerable.
