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	Liberia
Population:	4.19m
GDP:	$3.509bn
Debt:	56.2% of GDP (2023 forecast)

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Vol 64 No 24 |

LIBERIA

After narrow victory, Boakai set to review resource contracts

22nd November 2023

Spiralling prices sunk Weah's bid for a second presidential term but strengthens faith in elections

Due to accede to Liberia's presidency in January after beating incumbent George Weah by less than 2%, Unity Party candidate Joseph Boakai's election victory gives electoral politic...

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Vol 64 No 23 |

LIBERIA

Weah-Boakai election race tests 20-year peace settlement

14th November 2023

In the closest election since the civil war, voters choose between the two front-runners in the presidential run-off

Regional stability and economic progress weighed heavily in the second round of the presidential elections as voters trooped to the polling stations on 14 November. The early signs...

Vol 64 No 21 |

LIBERIA

Weah and Boakai brace for second round

19th October 2023

Worsening economic conditions and corruption swung votes behind the opposition candidates

A close second round run-off looks almost certain after Liberia's presidential elections failed to deliver a decisive conclusion in the first round of voting on 10 October. With 92...

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Vol 64 No 21 |

LIBERIA

Boost for opposition alliance as Weah faces run-off

17th October 2023

The President's hopes of an easy victory have been scuppered by a razor-thin margin in the first round of voting

A run-off appears to be inevitable. President George Weah and opposition leader Joseph Boakai were on 43.80% of the vote and 43.54% respectively, according to tallied results from ...

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Vol 64 No 21 |

LIBERIA

Clashes mar run-up to national elections

11th October 2023

Race for the presidency tightens after two opposition contenders joined forces ahead of the 10 October vote

The mood in President George Weah's camp, which had been expecting an easy run for a second term, has soured since his main rivals Joseph Boakai and Prince Yormie Johnson formed a ...

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Vol 64 No 5 |

LIBERIA

Weah stays in pole position

2nd March 2023

The controversial president has a poor governing record, but no candidate looks strong enough to defeat him in October’s poll

The temperature is rising fast in the run-up to Liberia's parliamentary and presidential election in October. Last month, President George Weah used the occasion of his sixth annua...

Vol 63 No 17 |

LIBERIA

Washington weighs in on Weah

24th August 2022

The latest US sanctions against Liberian officials target the President's closest allies after ever louder complaints of grand corruption since he came to power in 2018

The spotlight on corruption at the highest levels of government in Monrovia suddenly shone brightly on 15 August when the United States Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control ...

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Vol 63 No 17 |

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George Weah signs up more Washington spin doctors

9th August 2022

As the president’s popularity dips in Monrovia with elections due next year he is seeking help from consultants across the Atlantic

Few African politicians have been keener to work with United States political consultancies than President George Weah in his four years in office.

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Vol 63 No 10 |

LIBERIA

Opposition leader recruits Britain's Cherie Blair to clear his name

10th May 2022

Claiming forgery charges against him are trumped up, presidential contender Cummings is financing his own investigation

Alexander Cummings, the leader of the opposition Alternative National Congress (ANC), is bringing in Cherie Blair, the senior QC and wife of Britain's former Prime Minister Tony Bl...

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Vol 63 No 6 |

LIBERIA

Weah slaloms through the opposition

15th March 2022

Regardless of mounting scandals, broken promises and economic woes the President is set to win another term in next year's elections

As AC Milan's top striker in the 1990s, George Weah once ran through the opposing team to score a spectacular goal. As his country's President he plans to repeat the feat electoral...

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