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Liberian President George Weah faced a tight runoff election Tuesday as he seeks to defeat a repeat challenger and win a second term in the West African nation. The former international soccer ...
Liberian President George Weah conceded defeat late Friday after provisional results from this week’s runoff vote showed challenger Joseph Boakai beating him by just over a percentage point.
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.
The Liberian Observer or Daily Observer Newspaper is a newspaper published in Liberia. Based in Monrovia , The Liberian Observer Corporation was founded by Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Y. Best in 1981. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] An independent newspaper, it states that its goals are government accountability and popular awareness of current events.
The Liberian Journal (TLJ), a US-based Liberian online news site, covers issues of interest to Liberians in the Diaspora, including developments in post-conflict Liberia. It also publishes news about Africa and many defining events around the world. It provides news and information on developments in the spheres of politics, economics, sports ...
A Cellcom Liberia antenna in Monrovia (2009). Mass media in Liberia include the press, radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet.. Much of Liberia's communications infrastructure was destroyed or plundered during the two civil wars (1989–1996 and 1999–2003). [1]
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 ]
The Politics of Liberia takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic modeled on the government of the United States, whereby the president is the head of state and head of government; unlike the United States, however, Liberia is a unitary state as opposed to a federation and has a pluriform multi-party system rather than the two-party system that ...