Liberia’s former president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has admitted what has been obvious to the public – that a feud ensued between her and former vice president Joseph Boakai during the 2017 presidential elections.
Implementing Recommendations for Electoral Reform
On January 22, Liberia experienced its first handover of power from one elected leader to another in 73 years. Pres. George Weah’s inauguration followed a historic election that saw a loser in a presidential race accept the results and concede defeat to the winner for the first time in many years.
OP-ED: House of Representative’s Snub of Fonati Koffa is Good News for Liberia
Koffa is a man with a dark cloud of criminality hanging over his head and does not have the prerequisite character for the speakership role.
Brumskine Says Liberty Party Supports Neither UP or CDC
Charles Walker Brumskine, standard bearer of the Liberty Party, says his party neither supports the Unity Party nor the Coalition for Democratic Change in the presidential runoff election slated for December 26.
OP-ED: Liberia Needs the Rule of Law, Not Political Expediency
In strongly worded statements this month that bordered on hyperbole, current and past representatives of the U.S. government urged Liberia to speed up electoral litigation proceedings for a peaceful transition of presidential power.
Ganta Traders Attribute Increased Economic Hardship to Election Impasse
Traders in Nimba’s commercial hub, Ganta, are complaining that the uncertainty caused by the current impasse in the elections is making it much more difficult to do business.
OP-ED: Unlikely Agents of Change?
Are Brumskine, Boakai, Cummings, and Urey actually agents of change in Liberia?
Was Charles Brumskine Truthful in His Interview with BBC?
Liberty Party’s standard bearer Charles Brumskine recently granted an interview to the BBC where he defended his claims that the October 10 presidential and representative elections were marked by “fraud and gross irregularities.†We review the validity of statements Brumskine made.