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FILE: Liberian president George Weah. Picture: AFP

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Partial results show Liberians back Weah plan for shorter terms

By AFP

The country went to the polls last week to choose new senators, in an election held alongside the constitutional referendum on term limits and allowing dual...

  • FILE: Liberian president George Weah. Picture: AFP

    Liberia votes on Weah plan to cut presidential terms

    Voters are also choosing whether to repeal a 1973 ban on dual nationality, a move which some hope could be an economic boon in the poor nation of 4.8 million people.

    524 days ago
  • FILE: Liberian president George Weah. Picture: AFP

    Liberia's Weah denies he will seek third term in office

    Addressing a news conference in the capital Monrovia, the president's chief of staff Nathaniel McGill pointed out that George Weah, a footballing icon who took office in 2018, had not even finished his first presidential term.

    566 days ago
  • FILE: Liberian president George Weah. Picture: AFP

    Liberia's George Weah releases coronavirus single

    In his 'Let's Stand Together and Fight Coronavirus', President Weah explains how the virus is spread and urges hand washing to a backing of harmonised female vocals and upbeat guitar music from the group The Rabbis.

    782 days ago
  • FILE: Cameroon football legend Samuel Eto'o. Picture: AFP

    Cameroon footballing legend Eto'o rules out career in politics

    The two-time Africa Cup of Nations winner says he wants to move into coaching, although he has also taken a role with the Confederation of African Football.

    929 days ago
  • FILE: Liberian president George Weah. Picture: AFP

    Liberia shuts radio station critical of president

    Roots FM, owned by Henry Costa, is one of the leaders of a group that organised a large anti-government street protest on 17 June, paralysing several areas of the seaside capital Monrovia.

    949 days ago
  • Police deployed as the organisers of the June 7 protest take to the streets in the capital Monrovia on 31 July 2019. Picture: AFP

    Liberia protesters clash with police at rally over economy, graft

    The protesters - in the second major rally since thousands gathered on 7 June - called on the government to improve living conditions amid spiralling inflation.

    1020 days ago
  • FILE: Liberian president George Weah. Picture: AFP

    Liberia’s president calls for national prayers for economic recovery

    President George Weah is organising all-night prayer vigils on the last Friday of every month for people to pray for infrastructure and economic development.

    1195 days ago
  • Liberians hold a banner during a demonstration over the disappearance of newly printed bills, on 24 September, 2018, in the capital Monrovia. Picture: AFP

    Protesting Liberians demand return of lost millions

    The government said that the Liberian dollars, newly printed abroad, had been unaccounted for since arriving in containers at two ports in November 2017 and August 2018.

    1330 days ago
  • FILE: Liberian president George Weah. Picture: AFP

    Liberia's Weah bans travel for top officials until missing banknotes found

    Former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf insists the money did not disappear on her watch.

    1335 days ago
  • Former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger. Picture: @Arsenal/Twitter

    Arsene Wenger to get honour for helping George Weah's career

    Another of Weah’s coaches in his formative years, Claude Le Roy, is also to be awarded the country’s highest honour, the government said on Monday.

    1365 days ago
  • FILE: Liberian president George Weah. Picture: AFP

    Liberia's Weah takes steps to tackle inflation, poverty

    Liberian President George Weah said the injection of dollars would help mop up some excess Liberian dollars.

    1399 days ago
  • FILE: Liberian president George Weah. Picture: AFP

    Liberia’s George Weah takes steps to tackle inflation, poverty

    President George Weah took office at the start of 2018 on a promise to stamp out corruption and end the economic misery for millions of Liberians.

    1400 days ago
  • FILE: Liberian President George Weah. Picture: AFP.

    Liberia central bank governor Milton Weeks resigns

    President George Weah had received and accepted Weeks’ resignation, the president’s office said in a statement that gave no further details.

    1412 days ago
  • George Weah is sworn in Liberia's president on 22 January 2018 in Monrovia. Picture: AFP

    Facing a 'broke' country, Liberia's Weah cuts his own salary

    George Weah had promised a crackdown on endemic corruption as he was sworn in a week ago to the cheers of thousands of exuberant supporters crammed into a stadium in the capital, Monrovia.

    1568 days ago
  • Liberia's President-elect and former football star George Weah attends his swearing-in ceremony on 22 January 2018 in Monrovia. Picture: AFP

    [OPINION] The start of the match for George Weah in Liberia

    Jean-Jacques Cornish says the new Liberian president goes into the match more than a couple of goals down on the first leg.

    1574 days ago
  • Liberia's President-elect and former football star George Weah attends his swearing-in ceremony on 22 January 2018 in Monrovia. Picture: AFP

    George Weah sworn in as Liberian president

    George Weah said his first priority was to maintain peace in Liberia which was rigged by more than a decade of civil war.

    1575 days ago
  • Liberia's president-elect and former football star George Weah arrives for a church service at the centennial memorial pavilion in Monrovia on 21 January 2018, the eve of Weah's inauguration. Picture: AFP.

    George Weah to be sworn in as Liberia’s president

    Weah takes over from Africa's first female president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

    1576 days ago
  • Minister of Water and Sanitation Nomvula Mokonyane. Picture: @DWS_RSA/Twitter

    Mokonyane to represent Zuma at Weah’s inauguration

    The inauguration of President George Weah is set to take place on Monday.

    1576 days ago
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