Liberia: What Jojo Boakai’s Statement Settles, and what it doesn’t

WHAT JOJO BOAKAI’S STATEMENT SETTLES, AND WHAT IT DOESN’T Joseph Boakai Jr. spent nearly twenty minutes Wednesday doing something he says he’s avoided for three years: answering his critics directly.

The statement was detailed, specific, and at times disarming.

It was also, on its own terms, incomplete — a personal denial delivered before any investigation has […] ...