Tag: Liberia
The United Arab Emirates’ rush on African forests
The Bopolu forest, Liberia, in November 2021. JOHN WESSELS/AFP A handshake and a discreet smile. On March 25, Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook Al-Maktoum, accompanied by the Liberian Minister of Finance, let…
Liberia: George Weah concedes defeat in presidential election
Published on 11/18/2023 at 12:05 p.m. Photo credit © Reuters by Carielle Doe and Alphonso Toweh MONROVIA…
outgoing president, George Weah, facing veteran Joseph Boakai
Left: Liberian President George Weah. Right: his opponent Joseph Boakai. AHMAD GHARABLI, SEYLLOU / AFP Liberians are called to the polls on Tuesday, November 14, to say whether they return…
In Liberia, youth ravaged by drugs
It is a fragment of hell bordered by fine sand. In West Point, a dizzying township planted in the south of Monrovia, Liberia, mountains of rotting waste spread a pestilential…
Liberia on the way to a Weah-Boakai second round
Liberia is heading for a rematch of the 2017 presidential runoff with a duel between incumbent George Weah and opponent Joseph Boakai neck-and-neck, according to provisional results based on more…
In Liberia, President George Weah seeking a second term
A supporter of George Weah holds up a portrait of the Liberian president, in Monrovioa, October 8, 2023. JOHN WESSELS / AFP By whole truckloads, on motorbikes or on foot,…
In the absence of justice in Liberia, the trial of Kunti Kamara in Paris gives hope to the victims
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At the trial of Kunti Kamara, the paramount importance of witnesses from Liberia
Fighters from the Liberia United Liberation Movement for Democracy (Ulimo) in Liberia’s capital, Monrovia, on April 16, 1996, in the throes of a war between rebel groups. JEAN-MARC BOUJU /…
“Colonel Kamara” facing the ghosts of Liberia
This moment, they have been waiting for it for so long. Since bloodthirsty madness plunged their country, Liberia, into civil war at the end of the 20e century. Monday, October…
GROLLEAU: GROLLEAU CONTINUES TO DEVELOP ITS INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY ON THE TELECOM MARKET: FIRST ORDER IN LIBERIA AND DELIVERY IN SCOTLAND – 09/27/2022 at 17:50
Montilliers – September 27, 2022. Grolleau (ISIN Code: FR0014005ZM5 / Mnemonic: ALGRO) announces that it has won an order for two modular shelters for a data center with the Orange…
SOS Children’s Villages recognizes “a case of sexual assault” in Liberia
The international NGO SOS Children’s Villages recognized on Friday “a case of sexual assault” involving sound “management team” in Liberia after its country director was blamed in the local press…
Stampede after prayer in Liberia
This was confirmed by an employee of the hospital to which the dead were brought, the German Press Agency on Thursday. According to eyewitnesses, panic broke out among those present…