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Liberia

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  • What's the score one year on? Credit: George Weah office.
    LiberiaPolitics

    Liberia: How is President Weah faring one year on?

    By Ibrahim Al-bakri Nyei
    January 22, 2019
    One turbulent year after George Weah came to power, the challenges are starting to pile up, but hope remains. One year ago today, ordinary ...
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  • Credit: George Weah.
    LiberiaPolitics

    Liberia’s President Weah 100 days in: Promises made, promises kept?

    By Stephen D. Kollie
    May 2, 2018
    George Weah was elected to office vowing to usher in widespread change. How’s he faring so far? For most of the past three decades, ...
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  • Credit: George Weah.
    LiberiaPolitics

    Liberia: The best thing George Weah can do with his new powers is give some away

    By Ibrahim Al-bakri Nyei
    January 31, 2018
    President Weah has promised to decentralise power, but the temptation to delay or renege on this commitment now he’s in office will be great.  ...
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  • LiberiaPolitics

    Liberia’s presidential runoff: On the strange appeal of George Weah

    By Bram Posthumus
    November 1, 2017
    Why do so many people want the inexperienced and untested former footballer to be president? Back in 2005, when Liberia held its first elections ...
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  • The two contenders: Joseph Boakai (left) and George Weah (right).
    LiberiaPolitics

    Liberia’s election run-off: A choice between two imperfect options

    By Ibrahim Al-bakri Nyei
    October 26, 2017
    Keeping the incumbent party in office may be difficult to bear, but hope that the opposition will bring change may also be misplaced. Musa ...
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  • George Weah supporters await his arrival at the party headquarters in Congo Town, Monrovia. Credit: Stephen Kollie.
    LiberiaPolitics

    Could a former winner of the Ballon d’Or become Liberia’s next president?

    By Stephen D. Kollie
    September 19, 2017
    George Weah was the presidential runner-up in 2005. Ahead of the October vote, he is drawing huge crowds again and hopes to do one ...
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  • Liberia is preparing for its third set of elections since the end of the civil war. Credit: Brittany Danisch.
    LiberiaPolitics

    Runners and riders: Liberia gears up for most unpredictable elections yet

    By Robtel Neajai Pailey & David Harris
    September 14, 2017
    With President Sirleaf set to step down after 12 years in office, 20 candidates are competing to replace her. On 10 October 2017, Liberia ...
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  • Reading a newspaper in Liberia. Credit: Together Liberia.
    LiberiaSociety

    Transforming Liberia’s media: Time to pay our own “transport costs”

    By Jefferson Krua
    July 28, 2017
    Spelling errors, lack of independence, and “stipends” for covering events are commonplace in Liberia’s media. We decided to do something about it. On a ...
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  • LiberiaPhoto of the Week

    Photo of the Week: Hitching a ride in Liberia

    By Together Liberia
    May 19, 2017
    On the road to Liberia‘s capital Monrovia, a boy wearing a pink motorcycle helmet scrambles to get on a truck as it pulls back onto the ...
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  • LiberiaPolitics

    The UN had to go, but is Liberia ready to keep its own peace?

    By Robtel Neajai Pailey & Thomas Jaye
    July 13, 2016
    With thousands of UN peacekeepers leaving Liberia after 13 years, the country could be facing the most important transition in its history. Liberia has ...
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