liberia
6 Apr
It's no news that the bilateral relationship between Nigeria and Liberia, which started in 1960, has seen both countries establish Diplomatic Missions in each other’s capital.
29 Mar
Agricultural development agencies, researchers, and policymakers from Liberia are organising a summit to draw a seed road map for the West African country.
24 Jan
Liberia’s new president, Joseph Boakai, has been declared “perfectly fine” by his doctors, his office says.
8 Jan
The death toll from a petrol tanker explosion in central Liberia has risen to 74, the West African nation's chief medical officer said Monday.
29 Dec
A mere fact that a leader who lost a second term election and could not in fact fulfil most of the promises of the first term is the one being deconstructed as a Person of the Year in a region that parades giants including the most populous...
29 Dec
It was not an auspicious time for politicians to test popularity on the streets. While rich economies in the global north got richer, their poor and developing counterparts in Africa got poorer in 2023.
28 Dec
More than 40 people were feared dead when a tanker truck exploded after crashing in central Liberia, the country's chief medical officer told local media on Wednesday. The tanker carrying gasoline crashed and tipped into a ditch along a road in Totota, about 130 kilometres (80 miles) from the capital Monrovia. Dr Francis Kateh told…
27 Dec
At least 15 people were killed when a tanker truck exploded after crashing in central Liberia, the police said on Tuesday.
20 Nov
For a long time, political transition has been a serious issue in Africa. Elections are often turned into a theater of warfare as incumbent political leaders wouldn’t want to concede to electoral defeats easily. It is almost rare in Africa for an incumbent President to lose an election. It is sacrilegious! The ugly trend has…
20 Nov
Timi Frank, the former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has urged African leaders, particularly those in Nigeria, to draw lessons from the outcome of Liberia's presidential election, which saw opposition candidate Dr. Joseph Boakai emerge victorious. Frank, in a statement released in Abuja, also called for Nigeria's Independent National Electoral…
19 Nov
Months after military coup d’etats in Niger Republic and Mali that blighted Africa’s democratic credentials, last Friday’s concession of defeat by Liberia’s incumbent president and football legend, George Weah, to the opposition leader, Joseph Boakai...
16 Nov
Vote counting was under way in Liberia on Wednesday, the day after a presidential run-off between football legend George Weah and ex-vice president Joseph Boakai, with the challenger taking a narrow early lead.
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