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What Weah Say?

On Nov 17, President George Weah addressed the nation, conceded defeat and congratulated the president elect Joseph Boakai. Below is the full text of the statement. I stand before you tonight with a heavy heart, but with the utmost respect for the democratic process that has defined our nation.

Drugs Abuse Looms Over Liberia

Drug is a substance that has some special effect on the life of people especially use by humans as Medicine or Narcotic. The problem of drug abuse is not new in the world but trend has become worrisome with a high prevalence rate of drug use among youth (youthful generation) as the rise in organized crime has made it easier for drugs to be produced, trafficked, sold and used.

COP28 Must Not Repeat the Mistakes of the Africa Climate Summit

By Sydney Chisi In late November, the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) will be launched in Dubai. Coming at the end of a year...

From Civil War to surfing: Five things about Liberia

The West African nation of Liberia will vote for a new president on Tuesday in a run-off race between President George Weah, an ex-international football star, and veteran politician and technocrat Joseph Boakai.

From Rivercess to Monrovia, With My Poor Mother

My mother didn’t go to school. She has never sat in a classroom before. She does not know the difference between an A and a B.

Liberia’s former Finance Minister Amara M. Konneh writes after 2017 elections.

None of us in the Unity Party regime suspected the deep rift between Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Joseph Nyumah Boakai.

Who’s E. Wade Appleton?

On Wednesday, October 11, 2023 the National Elections Commission (NEC) commenced announcing the preliminary results of the recently conducted Presidential, and Legislative Elections held on Tuesday, October 10, 2023.

Thanksgiving Day: A Holiday Viewed From Coloured Glass

Most enacted holidays inherited from the First Republic of Liberia, currently observed in the Second Republic, are thought of as Christian- based which has infuriated other religions, with emphasis on Islamic adherents, to view the national observation of these holidays as constitutionally incompatible practice of effecting the glorification of Christianity over the state and other religions.

The God of the 11th Hour

In 1996, living in Ghana with my three kids and their father; my primary source of income then was braiding hair. Somehow, God always sent at least one client, and their payment would pay for food or some of the kids’ immediate needs.

“A Picture Is Worth A Thousand words”

One does not have to be an expert to see when people are unhappy in the company of others.

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