Liberia, May 4 -- By Anthony Stephens, senior justice correspondent with New Narratives

President Joseph Boakai returned from the United States on the weekend with a peace prize in hand and a pointed message for his own government: the War and Economic Crimes Court is happening, and it is happening now. Renewing the mandate of the Office established to create the court, pledging $2 million in annual funding, and giving the Office a 90 day deadline to come up with a plan to push the bills that would establish the court through the Legislature, Boakai moved to silence mounting fears - among victims groups and justice advocates - that his administration had lost its nerve on the country's most consequential transitional justice commitment....