Liberian President Joseph Boakai has signed an executive order to establish the country’s first war crimes court, more than 20 years after the end of two civil wars which killed 250,000 people. Mr Boakai said Liberia had “endured downpours of agony”. The 1989-2003 conflicts saw atrocities including mass killings, rape and the forced recruitment of […]
Liberia’s new President Joseph Boakai has been declared “perfectly fine” by his doctors, his office says. The 79-year-old failed to reach the end of his inauguration speech and had to be helped away from the podium during his swearing-in ceremony on Monday. His office said he had suffered heat exhaustion but had now resumed his […]
Liberia’s new President Joseph Boakai failed to reach the end of his speech and had to be helped away from the podium during his swearing-in ceremony. Mr Boakai, 79, had been speaking for around 30 minutes at his inauguration ceremony when it became clear that he was having difficulty continuing. He failed twice to carry […]
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberia’s new president, Joseph Boakai, was sworn into office Monday after his narrow win in a November election. Boakai, who at age 79 is the country’s oldest sitting head of state, promised to unite and rescue Africa’s oldest republic from its economic woes. “Partisanship must give way to nationalism,” Boakai told […]
Mocked by his critics as “Sleepy Joe”, 79-year-old Joseph Boakai is set to be sworn in as Liberia’s oldest-ever president after scraping a win in November’s run-off election, with the help of a former rebel commander. It will mark a generational shift, as Mr Boakai will take the reins of power from the nation’s youngest-ever […]
MONROVIA (Reuters) – Liberian President George Weah has intervened to reverse his country’s vote against a U.N. resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, the West African nation’s information ministry said on Tuesday. Liberia was the only African state and one of only ten countries of the 193-member U.N. General Assembly to reject […]