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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."
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. [2]
Liberia, [a] officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to its northwest, Guinea to its north, Ivory Coast to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean to its south and southwest. It has a population of around 5.5 million and covers an area of 43,000 square miles (111,369 km 2). The ...
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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 ]
Former Defense Minister Brownie Samukai was elected to the Senate for Lofa County on the Collaborating Political Parties (CPP) ticket on December 8, 2020. [1] Following his election, the National Elections Commission (NEC) withheld his certification due to a criminal conviction he had received earlier after pleading guilty to misappropriating over a million dollars in funds from the Armed ...
Article 28: Amend the constitutional rights of citizenship. Citizenship is granted automatically if both parents were Liberian citizens at the time of their birth; the amendments proposed require only one parent to be a Liberian citizen, remove the ability of the government to legislate to remove citizenship of natural born citizens and prohibit citizens with dual citizenship from holding ...