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Chanting “enough is enough,” hundreds of Liberians took to the streets of Monrovia on Thursday (17 July) in the largest protest since President Joseph Boakai took office last year. Led by opposition figure Mulbah Morlu, demonstrators voiced growing anger over unfulfilled promises, job losses, and the government’s failure to establish a war crimes court. The […]
The newly elected presidents of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Felix Tshisekedi and of Liberia, Joseph Boakai, have been sworn in, with both promising to improve living conditions and security in their respective countries. The DRC’s President Tshisekedi has been sworn in following a landslide victory in the highly contested elections in December that […]
Votes are being tallied in two African states — Liberia and Madagascar — and while their final results are still forthcoming, what is clear is the starkly different assessment of their respective conducts — peaceful in the former but tense in the latter. Liberia’s incumbent, George Weah, a former soccer star whose administration had faced […]