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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.
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Liberia wrestles with poverty and ecology in bid to protect sharks
Fifteen years or so ago, local fishermen who ventured off the coast of Liberia recall expecting to come back with 200, maybe 300, of the fish in their boats.
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Former Liberia leader Charles Taylor’s ex-wife denies torture charges
The eight counts against Agnes Taylor, a former university lecturer, relate to actions in her official capacity in the West African country nearly 20 years ago.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Trump to end special status for Liberian immigrants in US
Trump has pursued a crackdown on legal and illegal immigration since becoming president.
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Liberia church massacre survivors sue alleged perpetrator in US court
The lawsuit, brought in federal court in Philadelphia, accuses Moses Thomas of directing the mass killing on 29 July, 1990, while a colonel in the Armed Forces of Liberia.
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Liberia's Johnson Sirleaf wins $5m Mo Ibrahim leadership prize
The $5 million award recognizes her work in rebuilding her country torn by civil war.
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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.
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[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.
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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.
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George Weah to be sworn in as Liberia’s president
Weah takes over from Africa's first female president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
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Mokonyane to represent Zuma at Weah’s inauguration
The inauguration of President George Weah is set to take place on Monday.
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Liberia ruling party expels President Johnson Sirleaf
Johnson Sirleaf, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who has been in power for 12 years, denies the party’s allegations that she held inappropriate private meetings with election magistrates before the 10 October vote.
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Weah says Liberia 'open for business', vows to fight corruption
George Weah scored a landslide victory over Vice President Joseph Boakai in Tuesday’s run-off.
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Ex-soccer star 'King George' Weah wins Liberia's presidency
With 98.1% of the vote counted, Weah led with 61.5% to Vice President Joseph Boakai’s 38.5%, National Elections Commission chairperson Jerome Korkoyah told reporters in the capital Monrovia on Thursday.
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UN sends Obassanjo to Liberia to help in peaceful transition of power
Former football ace George Weah has won that race to replace Africa’s first elected woman President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
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George Weah camp claims victory, Liberia awaits official presidential results
Weah has taken to Twitter to thank all his supporters, saying that he plans to liberate the country.
