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Liberia and Côte d’Ivoire have reiterated their constant position on Morocco’s territorial integrity and support to its sovereignty over its entire territory, including the Sahara region. The stand was reiterated in separate statements by the Liberian and Ivorian Foreign Ministers Sara Beysolow Nyanti and Léon Kacou Adom following the holding of the Morocco-Liberia and Morocco-Côte […]
Nigerian naira, Malawian kwacha and Rwandan franc have been named the worst-performing African currencies against the US dollar in 2024, according to a latest report, having faced an array of challenges, from persistent trade imbalances, dwindling foreign reserves, to political instability. Some African nations strengthened their currencies, while others faced worsening exchange rates in 2024. […]
Liberian Foreign Minister, Sara Beysolow Nyanti, reaffirmed, on Sunday in Seoul, her country’s support for Morocco’s territorial integrity and sovereignty over its entire territory, including the Moroccan Sahara. “Liberia’s position is the same. Our support for Morocco’s territorial integrity is constant,” stressed Beysolow Nyanti after her talks with her Moroccan peer Nasser Bourita, on the […]
Liberia reaffirmed, on Thursday in Rabat, its support for Morocco’s territorial integrity and sovereignty over all its territory, including the Moroccan Sahara. This position was expressed in a joint communiqué issued following talks between Liberian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sara Beysolow Nyanti, who is on a visit to Morocco, and her Moroccan peer Nasser Bourita. […]
The Liberian senate has approved the setting up of a special court that investigates crimes by warlords during the country’s civil war. The Liberian civil war erupted in 1989 when Charles Taylor, leading the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), invaded Liberia from neighboring Côte d’Ivoire through Nimba County, triggering one of the most deadly […]
A French criminal court has handed former Liberian rebel commander Kunti Kamara a 30-year prison sentence for violence against civilians and complicity in crimes against humanity between 1993 and 1994 during Liberia’s first civil war. The 49-year-old had been sentenced to life in prison during a first trial in Paris in 2022. In the appeals […]
King Mohammed VI was represented at the official inauguration ceremony of president-elect of Liberia, Joseph Boakai, by Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rachid Talbi El Alami. The official investiture ceremony that took place at the Capitol Building (Parliament) was attended by several heads of state and foreign delegations, members of the diplomatic corps accredited […]
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 […]
Liberia’s political veteran and former vice-president Joseph Nyumah Boakai was on Monday (21 November) formally declared winner of the 14 November presidential election, defeating incumbent and former international football star George Weah. Boakai won with 50.64% of the vote, against 49.36% of the vote garnered by Weah, with a margin of only 20,567 votes, Davidetta […]
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 […]