MONROVIA, Nov. 3 -- Three senior officials of the Unity Party-led government have set tongues wagging after posting photos on Facebook of what they described as late-night strategy sessions with "Unit 2," a label widely read in political circles as a reference to Vice President Jeremiah Kpan Koung.

By Rodney D. Sieh

The posts come at a delicate moment for the Boakai administration, which is still facing questions over its request that the European Union withdraw its envoy to Liberia, partly over remarks she allegedly made about the Vice President's reach into sectors outside his constitutional remit. For many observers, the timing has sharpened a question already circulating in Monrovia: who is really running the country?

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