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Around 2.4 million voters in Liberia are eligible to cast their ballots on Tuesday in a general election in which President George Weah is seeking a second term after a first six years marked by ...
22 January – Joseph Boakai is inaugurated President of Liberia, succeeding outgoing President George Weah, whom he defeated in the 2023 runoff election. [1]27 March – A court in France sentences the former leader of the United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy Kunti Kamara to 30 years in prison on charges of committing "crimes against humanity."
Moses Kollie Garzeawu - BBC News, Liberia. November 28, 2024 at 12:23 PM. Prince Johnson, seen here in 2008, had a key role in Liberia's years of civil war [AFP] Prince Yormie Johnson, Liberian ...
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Liberia is struggling to recover from two civil wars that killed more than 250,000 people between 1989 and 2003 and from a 2013-16 Ebola epidemic that killed thousands.
Liberia has an established history of civil violence following contested elections, particularly the 1985 Liberian coup d'état attempt which was the root cause of the First Liberian Civil War. This election is also notable as it is the first election without United Nations observers since the Second Liberian Civil War . [ 11 ]
Thousands of people gathered in Liberia's capital Monrovia on Sunday as opposition leader Joseph Boakai launched his campaign ahead of October elections that will test the popularity of ex ...
26 June – Florence Chenoweth, former minister of agriculture, in Monrovia (b. 1945) [9] 18 July – Hans Barchue, member of the Liberian House of Representatives, in Monrovia [10]