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  • FILE: Former Liberian President Charles Taylor. Picture: AFP

    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.

    922 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.

    938 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.

    943 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.

    1007 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.

    1008 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.

    1020 days ago
  • US President Donald Trump. Picture: AFP

    Trump to end special status for Liberian immigrants in US

    Trump has pursued a crackdown on legal and illegal immigration since becoming president.

    1119 days ago
  • Liberia flag. Picture: AFP.

    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.

    1162 days ago
  • Former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Picture: AFP

    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.

    1163 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.

    1176 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.

    1182 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.

    1183 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.

    1184 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.

    1184 days ago
  • Former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Picture: AFP

    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.

    1191 days ago
  • FILE: George Weah shows his voting card prior to casting his vote for Liberia's presidential and legislative elections at a polling station in Monrovia on 10 October 2017. Picture: AFP

    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.

    1204 days ago
  • Former footballer George Weah speaks to journalists after casting his ballot for the second round of presidential elections on December 26, 2017 at a polling station in Monrovia. Picture: AFP

    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.

    1208 days ago
  • FILE: Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo. Picture: United Nations Photo.

    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.

    1208 days ago
  • Former footballer George Weah speaks to journalists after casting his ballot for the second round of presidential elections on December 26, 2017 at a polling station in Monrovia. Picture: AFP

    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.

    1210 days ago
  • FILE: George Weah shows his voting card prior to casting his vote for Liberia's presidential and legislative elections at a polling station in Monrovia on 10 October 2017. Picture: AFP.

    Liberians vote in historic, delayed election

    Former world footballer of the year George Weah and VP Joseph Boakai are bidding to succeed Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in a run-off vote delayed for more than a month.

    1210 days ago
  • Former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Picture: AFP

    Liberian youth cast vote day after Christmas

    They are selecting a winner between George Weah and Joseph Boakai to succeed Africa’s first elected woman President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

    1210 days ago
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