Ms Sirleaf, who is a Nobel Peace Prize winner and Africa's first elected woman president, could not stand again... READ MORE›
President-elect George Weah of the Coalition for Democratic Change CDC arrives for an interview with REUTERS at his residence in Monrovia, Liberia, January 2, 2018... READ MORE›
To investors, we say Liberia is open for business, he said... READ MORE›
Hundreds of supporters gathered outside the party headquarters of Liberia's president-elect George Weah after his emphatic victory in the country's election was secured... READ MORE›
President-elect Weah says Liberia 'open for business', vows to fight corruption... READ MORE›
And only results released by the National Elections Commission should be reported as official ones, he added... READ MORE›
Liberias Vice President Concedes Election It Has Never Been About Me... READ MORE›
By tomorrow morning, 27 December 2017 at 11 00 hours the tallying of results will commence and the National Elections Commission will continue to release provisional results as they arrive... READ MORE›
George Weah's limited educational background hurt his political aspirations, and he returned to school after the 2005 attempt for president... READ MORE›
The ex-footballer George Weah has been voted in as the president of Liberia. But will he be equal to the country's many challenges, asks Umaru Fofana... READ MORE›
Liberia's Vice President Joseph Boakai has conceded defeat in the country's presidential election and congratulated his opponent, George Weah... READ MORE›
If George Weah was an individualistic person, the team would never have had a chance of winning... READ MORE›
George Weah from soccer icon to Liberian president... READ MORE›
'He is King George' Soccer star George Weah wins Liberian presidential election... READ MORE›
Former soccer star George Weah wins Liberian presidential election... READ MORE›
Former football star George Weah has defeated Vice President Joseph Boakai to win Liberia's presidential election run-off with 61.5 percent of the vote, based on... READ MORE›
Mr. Weah, 51, will take over the running of Liberia without Mrs. Sirleaf's long history of public service... READ MORE›
The EU's chief observer, Maria Arena, congratulated the candidates and the Liberian people on a peaceful vote that generally respected constitutional rules ... READ MORE›
George Weah, former world footballer of the year, elected president of Liberia... READ MORE›
Mr Weah, 51, will succeed Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa's first elected female president, in Liberia's first democratic handover since 1944... READ MORE›
And only results released by the National Elections Commission should be reported as official ones, he added... READ MORE›
Whoever wins will succeed the continent's first elected female head of state, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who took over at the helm of Africa's oldest republic in 2006... READ MORE›
There has been no major incident to report of a technical nature and the voting was peaceful, noted electoral commission chief Francis Korkoya... READ MORE›
Vote count underway in Liberia after Tuesdays run off election. Election observers say voter turnout lower than first round of voting in October... READ MORE›
Under the leadership of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, ECOWAS quickly reacted to Jammeh's poll cancellation and dispatched a team led by Nigeria's Muhammadu Buhari... READ MORE›
Weah, who topped the first round of voting but did not secure the 50 percent needed to win outright, is heavily favoured to win the runoff... READ MORE›
Voters in Liberia are heading to the polls to elect a new president in a contested run-off election... READ MORE›
Campaigns over, ballot boxes and other electoral materials deployed across Liberia, the National Elections Commission NEC says all is set for today's crucial run off vote... READ MORE›
The former football star George Weah has waited 12 years to become president of Liberia... READ MORE›
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- Barely two years after West African nations defeated a deadly Ebola scourge, they are confronting a new epidemic corruption... READ MORE›
On 27 April rangers at Sapo National Park, the country's largest protected area of rainforest and its first national park, were assaulted by several settlers... READ MORE›
An investigation by Red Cross auditors has revealed that in Liberia 2.7m disappeared in fraudulently overpriced supplies, or in salaries for non-existent aid workers... READ MORE›
Anyone arriving from affected West African countries without having had confirmed contact with Ebola victims will be subject to monitoring by public health officials... READ MORE›
MONROVIA, Liberia -- On the eve of a presidential election that will almost certainly return male rule to Liberia after 12 years, women delivered a warning... READ MORE›
Ebola crisis canada visa ban hits west africa states... READ MORE›
Experts attribute that to fearful Liberians touching one another less, more safe burials of bodies and distribution of protective gear to health care workers... READ MORE›
Health officials in Sierra Leone have confirmed a death from Ebola, hours after the World Health Organization declared the West Africa outbreak over... READ MORE›
Monrovia Journal In Liberia an Executive Mansion Fit for a President and Ghosts Too... READ MORE›
Liberia is free of Ebola after going 42 days without any new cases, the World Health Organization WHO announced Saturday... READ MORE›
Public Health Service is not technically part of the armed forces, its members look very much like military personnel, wearing uniforms similar to U... READ MORE›
Farmers in Sierra Leone who have deserted their land because of the Ebola outbreak are being encouraged to go back to work... READ MORE›
But he added that there were still, by some estimates, 1,000 to 2,000 new Ebola cases a week -- the bulk of those now in Guinea and Sierra Leone... READ MORE›
Among the African contingent that ranked behind Benin and Liberia were Nigeria 25, Mozambique 29, Mali 30, Zambia 32, Sierra Leone 37, Cameroon 43, and Equatorial Guinea 50 ... READ MORE›
NAIROBI -- About a year and a half after it emerged, the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone has officially ended... READ MORE›
As many as 2,000 migrants leave Agadez weekly, the last big stop before reaching Libya, 620 miles away across the scorching sand... READ MORE›
The clinic, in Bandajuma near Bo, is the only Ebola treatment centre in southern Sierra Leone... READ MORE›
Of the West African countries hit by the 11-month outbreak, Liberia has seen the most deaths... READ MORE›
The World Health Organization declared Liberia Ebola-free on May 9 a landmark moment in the country which has suffered more deaths from the epidemic than any other... READ MORE›
In 2014, she told The Post that Mr. Weah was the father of her third child, and that she was a future Liberian first lady... READ MORE›
It has continued to be among the versions of the virus propagating in Guinea and later in Sierra Leone... READ MORE›
Although he won the first round of the poll, he lost in a runoff with Sirleaf... READ MORE›
Refused entry Guinea has not been as badly hit by Ebola as neighbouring Sierra Leone and Liberia... READ MORE›
The six new infections in Liberia since June 21 include two deaths... READ MORE›
Liberians are set to go to the polls to choose a successor to Africa's first elected female president and Nobel Peace laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf... READ MORE›
Scientists have struggled to develop an Ebola vaccine over the years, and this is the first one proven to work... READ MORE›
Jewel Howard-Taylor on her ex-husband Charles Taylor, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, George Weah and her agenda for Liberia... READ MORE›
Guinea reported its lowest weekly total of new confirmed Ebola virus disease cases since the week ending 17 August 2014, WHO said... READ MORE›
Experts attribute that to fearful Liberians touching one another less, more safe burials of bodies and distribution of protective gear to health care workers... READ MORE›
Mr Saeed also warned of other risks in West Africa as health workers focus on fighting Ebola... READ MORE›
Was Liberia's outgoing President Sirleaf really an international feminist icon or did she fail African women?... READ MORE›
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