Large, Alioune Kebe, has paid tribute to President Joseph Boakai for appointing him and reaffirmed his commitment to using sports as a tool for youth empowerment, transformation, and national unity.In ...

As I said earlier, my message will be strange. Strange because it is not a birthday related message but a message intended to help Liberians look at the democratic future of their country. This is ...

In a powerful moment of national remembrance and literary pride, former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf joined government ...

Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah tells BBC she understands pressure she faces as Africa's second directly elected female leader ...

In 2022, the National Council of Chiefs and Elders of Liberia (NACCEL) announced a three-year moratorium on female genital ...

Tolbert in control here as president, and I came here and visited ... of their power through the gun. This is the first time that Liberia has a prospect of peace, freedom, respect for human ...

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Source: BBC, Reuters Weah eventually retired from football in 2002, and started his first bid ... ran for a seat in Liberia's senate instead, which he won. Weah beat President Sirleaf’s son ...

Glenna Gordon Squatters occupy a mansion in Harper built for high-living President ... Liberia regularly over the last seven years. “I wanted to explore this tension, and in Harper some of the ...

and as President of the Federation from 1964 to 1967. In 1958, she represented Liberia and the Federation at the first session of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. Miss Brooks was ...

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is the former President of Liberia, and Africa’s first democratically elected female head of state; Nobel Peace Laureate; a leading promoter of peace, justice, and democratic ...