As bidding opens on four offshore oil exploration blocks and President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf signals that long-awaited petroleum legislation is imminent the National Oil Company of Liberia again comes under unwelcome scrutiny...
Vol 55 No 16 |
- WEST AFRICA
During the US-Africa summit in Washington this week Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell met Guinean President Alpha Condé and senior officials from Liberia and Sierra Leone whose Presidents Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Ernest Bai Koroma had stayed at home to tackle the growing emergency...
He set up a high-level panel to advise the Bank led by Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf to corral finance and backing from the United Nations World Bank and European Union...
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No woman has appeared on President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf's list of potential successors and she has said she wants the dour Joseph Boakai 69 to be the candidate of the governing Unity Party in 2017...
President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has often lamented the consequences of a poor education system but never mentioned the ghost workers...
President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has never shied away from appointing her children and relatives to public office when she thought it right...
The Great West was long a Gbagbo stronghold and the trial in Monrovia of 18 Liberians for their involvement in the killing of the UN peacekeepers and other attacks has become a rallying point for champions of Krahn identity and against President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf...
The rumour which flashed around Monrovia late last year that President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf had died was a harbinger of unsettled times ahead...
In 2005 President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf inherited a battered country with no infrastructure and an annual budget of US$85 million...
Liberia's redoubtable President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf chaired the first committee meeting of ten Presidents in New York to draw up a common African position on the next MDGs...
