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  • 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.

    Electoral commission: Liberia to hold run-off vote on December 26

    George Weah faces Vice-President Joseph Boakai in the poll that was held up for several weeks by a court challenge by the candidate who came third in round one.

    1227 days ago
  • FILE: Former Liberian President Charles Taylor. Picture: AFP

    Dutch fugitive convicted of selling weapons to Charles Taylor remains in CT jail

    Augustinus Kouwenhoven was arrested yesterday following a police raid in Cape Town

    1230 days ago
  • Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Picture: AFP

    Sirleaf: Liberia's democracy is under assault

    Former footballer George Weah was initially set to face Vice-President Joseph Boakai on Tuesday to determine who will replace the term-limited Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

    1261 days ago
  • FILE: Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Picture: AFP.

    Election commission: Fraud probe to delay Liberia election run-off

    Former soccer star George Weah and Vice President Joseph Boakai are competing to succeed President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

    1266 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

    Liberia's Supreme Court halts presidential run-off over fraud allegations

    The court’s decision points to the increasingly assertive role some African judiciaries are playing in overseeing elections.

    1268 days ago
  • People wait in line prior to casting their vote for Liberia's presidential and legislatives elections at a polling station in Monrovia on 10 October 2017. Picture: AFP.

    Liberia's ruling party backs challenge to presidential result

    Unity Party officials said they were supporting a legal challenge by Liberty Party of the third-place candidate Charles Brumskine.

    1271 days ago
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    Liberian presidential run-off on the cards

    Soccer star George Weah and Vice President Joseph Boakai lead the 20-candidate field to succeed Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

    1284 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.

    Soccer star Weah & VP Boakai near Liberia presidential run-off

    George Weah and Joseph Boakai held commanding leads in provisional presidential election results, setting up a likely run-off next month between the two men.

    1286 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

    Soccer star and VP maintain early leads in Liberia election

    Based on returns from about a third of the country’s more than 5,000 polling stations, George Weah has obtained 39.6% of votes cast.

    1287 days ago
  • A member of Liberia's National Electoral Commission (NEC) points to results at a tally center in the capital Monrovia following the country's presidential and legislatives elections on 12 October 2017. Picture: AFP.

    Liberia election results trickling in

    Liberians have voted to replace Africa's first female president who's served two six-year terms in office.

    1287 days ago
  • People wait in line prior to casting their vote for Liberia's presidential and legislatives elections at a polling station in Monrovia on 10 October 2017. Picture: AFP.

    Liberian voters brave long queues as voting underway

    Nearly 2.2 million people have registered to vote as they replace Africa’s first female president.

    1290 days ago
  • Africa's first female president steps down. Picture: AFP

    Liberia to choose new president on Tuesday

    78-year-old Ellen Johnson Sirleaf made history when she was elected president of the West African nation in 2005.

    1291 days ago
  • Liberia's Joseph Nyumah Boakai in Monrovia on 20 March 2017. Picture: AFP

    Liberia’s Boakai confident ahead of polls

    Africa's first female president, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, is stepping down after two six-year terms in office.

    1291 days ago
  • President Jacob Zuma receives President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia for a state visit to South Africa. Picture: GCIS.

    SA, Liberia commit to deepen relations

    President Jacob Zuma met with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf at the Union Buildings on Friday afternoon.

    1349 days ago
  • President Jacob Zuma and his Liberian counterpart Ellen Johnson Sirleaf at the Union Buildings. Picture: GCIS.

    Zuma welcomes Ellen Johnson Sirleaf during Women’s Month

    President Jacob Zuma is hosting his Liberian counterpart Ellen Johnson Sirleaf at the Union Buildings on Friday afternoon.

    1350 days ago
  • Picture: Supplied.

    Former Liberian president's ex-wife faces torture charges

    Agnes Reeves Taylor will be in the dock at London’s Old Bailey at the end of this month.

    1417 days ago
  • Patients suffering from Ebola sit at the French NGO Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without borders) Elwa hospital in Monrovia, on 21 August, 2014. Picture: AFP.

    Lack of water, broken toilets plague health facilities in Liberia: charity

    Health workers say water shortages & overflowing toilets are putting patients at risk of infection & disease.

    1651 days ago
  • Handcuffs. Picture: Stock.xchng

    Liberian newspaper editor arrested after allegedly calling president cannibal

    The editor posted an article about president Teodoro Mbasogo, alleging the he skinned opponents alive.

    1679 days ago
  • FILE: Soldiers of UNOCI (United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire) wear a face mask to protect themselves from the Ebola virus as they patrol in Kandopleu, on 14 August 2014 near Biankouma near the border with Guinea and Liberia. Picture: AFP.

    UN peacekeeping mission leaves Liberia after 13 years

    President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf told Reuters much had been done to prepare for the transition.

    1754 days ago
  • Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-Moon

    UN ends more than decade of sanctions, arms embargo on Liberia

    The unanimously adopted resolution by the Security Council welcomed the progress made by Liberia.

    1792 days ago
  • FILE: Liberian Red Cross health workers wearing protective suits carry the body of a victim of the Ebola virus out of a garage in September 2014 in a district of Monrovia. Picture: AFP.

    New Ebola death in Liberia months after outbreak declared over

    A 30-year-old woman was being brought to a hospital in the capital Monrovia after falling ill.

    1847 days ago
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