Liberia’s closest election in two decades is heading to a runoff, according to official provisional results announced by the West African nation’s electoral commission, after neither the country’s president nor his main opponent secured a majority.
Liberians went to the polls Tuesday in a tough race for incumbent President George Weah. The 57-year-old former soccer star won office in 2017 after promising to create jobs, battle corruption, and set up an economic and war crimes court to investigate the horrific civil war that killed 250,000 people between 1989 and 2003.
Amid stubbornly high out-of-school rates and dismal learning levels for many children in sub-Saharan Africa, an education program in Liberia has offered hope after an evaluation showed its students made huge learning gains in just 10 months.
The two main contenders in the race for the Liberian presidency have failed to secure enough votes to avoid a runoff with almost all the results counted.
Ruling Coalition for Democratic Change and the main opposition Unity Party will go head to head again in November for voters to decide which of the two is fit to lead Liberia.
The Center for Media Studies and Peacebuilding and the Media Foundation for West Africa on Tuesday October 17, 2023 kicked-off a two-day capacity building training workshop for Liberian journalists to bolster transparency and accountability.
The Liberian electorates have successfully voted out nine of the 13 senators that sought reelection in the just ended October 10, legislative and presidential elections.
Only four including Senate leader Albert Chie are returning to the Capitol after a successful bid.
One of the two main contenders in Liberia’s presidential race must decisively win remaining votes in Montserrado, Margibi, Grand Bassa and Grand Cape Mount and the South eastern Counties to emerge as the country’s next president.
The Economic Community of West African States has warned Liberian political actors against any premature proclamation of victory and warned that it would crack down on those responsible for the violence.
West Africa has had a spate of coups. But, finally, it has democratic good news: a clean election in Liberia.
The polls on Tuesday were conducted in a free and fair environment, the African Union (AU) and Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) observer missions said in a joint statement
