By Fidel Amakye Owusu For decades, Liberia stood as a beacon of stability in West Africa. Then came the late 1980s, when civil war shattered that...
Liberia’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth is expected to accelerate to 5.4 percent in 2024, up from an estimated 3.7 percent in 2023. According to data...
On Wednesday, the Secretary-General of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), Wamkele Mene, met with President Joseph Boakai of Liberia. During his visit, the Secretary-General...
AFP | Liberia’s President Joseph Boakai will cut his salary by 40 percent, a move he says is aimed at “setting a precedent for responsible governance”...
By Gregory Simpkins Many of us are familiar with Africa as a concept, though not necessarily as distinguishable, individual nations nor Caribbean nations as more than...
AP | Liberia’s new president, Joseph Boakai, was sworn into office Monday after his narrow win in a November election. Boakai, who at age 79 is...
AFP | Liberia’s outgoing president George Weah has said he has no plans to run for the top job again after his defeat in recent elections,...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Last year – 2023 – was a busy one for Africa as far as elections were concerned. Multiple states in different geopolitical...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu In the 1950s, 60s and 70s, when many countries in West Africa faced political instability and concomitant economic decay, Liberia was one...
AP | 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...
AP | Liberian President George Weah faced a tight runoff election Tuesday as he seeks to defeat a repeat challenger and win a second term in...
Reuters | Liberia’s President George Weah and opposition leader Joseph Boakai are nearly tied in the race for the presidency following a October 10 election, provisional...
AP | Liberian President George Weah is seeking a second term in office Tuesday, hoping that his efforts to pave roads, build hospitals and bring electricity...
AFP | Liberia’s President George Weah officially launched his campaign for a second term on Thursday, in front of thousands of supporters in the capital Monrovia...
Bloomberg | Liberian President George Weah will face over a dozen opponents when the country votes in a October 10 general election amid mounting anger over...
AFP | Liberia has allowed dual citizenship, reversing a longtime ban viewed by some as hypocritical as many elites secretly held US citizenship. The bill, signed...
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved a US$1.5 million grant to assess policy gaps in the digital trade and e-commerce...
Liberia is now free of Ebola after going more than 42 days – twice the maximum incubation period for the deadly disease – without any new...
Actor Idris Elba and a host of international soccer stars of Africa origin have launched a public awareness campaign on Wednesday to help halt Ebola epidemic...
Sierra Leone has sealed off the borders with Liberia and Guinea in a bid to halt the spread of Ebola, the government spokesman said on Tuesday....
The African Union was preparing Monday to send a team of 30 health workers and other specialists to help fight an Ebola outbreak that killed more...
When Ebola hit Uganda two years ago, the country’s president quickly went on national TV and urged Ugandans to avoid touching each other. Health officials speedily...
Liberia announced on Wednesday the quarantine of a number of communities and the closure of schools across the country, the toughest measures yet imposed by a...
Liberia has closed all but 3 land border crossings, restricted public gatherings and quarantined communities heavily affected by the Ebola outbreak in the West African nation....
Ebola is continuing to spread in three West African countries and the death toll in the outbreak has risen to more than 330. Health officials are...
Sierra Leone has announced a state of emergency in the Kailahun district from the outbreak of the Ebola virus which has claimed 17 lives, banning public...
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has said that the economy of Liberia will be restored to its full potential, where all citizens will benefit equally from their...
“I know not everybody cannot afford to provide collateral to go to the bank, because when I first started as a business woman, I could not...
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has formally launched the Liberia National Trade Policy 2014-2019 and the Liberia National Export Strategy 2014-2019 which outlines government’s strategy for creating...
Following decades of political turmoil, Liberia has now set its sight on development and national recovery as evidenced by 10 years of unbroken peace. With peace...
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says if Liberia is to achieve Universal Health Coverage, it must begin to build a sustainable health financing system through domestic financing...
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Sunday that Liberia has confirmed 2 cases of the deadly Ebola virus that is suspected to have killed at...
West African nations are working to contain an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus suspected to have killed at least 59 people in Guinea, with symptoms...
Amid the shortage of diesel or fuel here, commercial drivers have begun to hike transport fares, particularly in Monrovia and its environs, leaving commuters stranded, as...
While oil could potentially accelerate the country’s development, Liberians also remember that mismanagement of its forestry, gold and diamonds resources was a factor that led to...
Africa now has three female heads of state, after Catherine Samba-Panza of the Central African Republic took office in January. Though women leaders are still a...
Africa’s richest man, billionaire Alhaji Aliko Dangote paid a courtesy call, on Thursday, to President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf at her Foreign Ministry Office and briefed her...
By Tony Elumelu (Reuters) – To Africa’s many challenges, add one more: unemployment. Unemployment, independent of any other factor, threatens to derail the economic promise that...
By Carlos Lopes Africa’s political economy is deeply ingrained with its history of the exploitation and (mis)-management of its mineral and natural resources. More than 500...
Former Liberia President Charles Taylor. PHOTO/AFP An international war crimes court upheld the conviction and 50-year sentence of former Liberian President Charles Taylor for aiding rebels...
The National Oil Company of Liberia (NOCAL) has signed an exploration agreement with the Canadian Overseas Petroleum Ltd. (COPL) and ExxonMobil for exploration of Liberia’s offshore...
General Souleymane Kelefa Diallo (Reuters) – The head of Guinea’s armed forces, was killed on Monday when the aircraft carrying him and five other top Guinean...
Former Liberia President.,Charles Taylor.PHOTO/File Prosecutors urged judges Tuesday to reject former Liberian President Charles Taylor’s appeal against his war crimes conviction and 50-year prison sentence, saying...
Former Liberia President.,Charles Taylor.PHOTO/File International judges sentenced former Liberian President Charles Taylor to 50 years in prison Wednesday, saying he was responsible for “some of the...
Robert L. Johnson, the renowned businessman and investor, said it best. He was speaking of the importance of the West African country of Liberia to the...
The African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) as met with its African member states, as part of its continental fundraising efforts. The consultations on the fringes of...
Nigerian billionaire., Aliko Dangote. PHOTO/File Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote has signed a 20 year agreement with the Liberian government enabling him to open a branch of...
Liberia is still years away from tapping what African Petroleum calls a significant oil deposit off the country’s coast. But as the company assesses deposits for...
The National Oil Company of Liberia (NOCAL) welcomes the announcement by African Petroleum that their Narina-1 exploratory well drilled in Block LB-09 off the coast of...
Africa’s first and only female president, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (pictured), handily won re-election with 90.2 per cent of the vote, but her victory has been rendered hollow...
Opposition leader says court action “could be the most comprehensive way” of dealing with vote he boycotted. Winston Tubman of the Congress for Democratic Change told...
Liberia President., Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. AP Photo/FRANCOIS MORI Liberia’s president urged voters to go to the polls this week and to ignore a boycott by the opposition....
Liberia’s main opposition party says it will take part in next week’s presidential runoff vote after threatening a boycott. The party, whose ticket includes soccer star...
Opposition parties in Liberia on Saturday said they were pulling out of the elections, claiming fraud, as vote-counting put incumbent President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in the...
Liberian voters camped out overnight and then braved rains Tuesday in the capital to vote in the West African nation’s presidential election, expected to serve as...
She may have won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, but even that may not be enough to persuade voters in this nation with 80 percent unemployment...
The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen for their...
The Press Union of Liberia on Wednesday condemned the sacking of state radio chief Ambroise Nmah, accusing President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (pictured), of replacing him with...
