There is a broad spectrum of trajectories in which these elections may lead. Some provide crucial opportunities for consolidating democratic progress. Others face uneven electoral playing fields and must overcome institutional legacies of one-party rule.
The appeal hearings of a former Liberian rebel commander convicted of war crimes concluded on Friday in a trial that was broadened in its final stages to include crimes against humanity for the first time in Switzerland.
Audits of Liberia’s Roberts International Airport (RIA), have revealed significant shortcomings in airport safety, security, and operational standards, the US Embassy in Monrovia said in a statement Thursday.
Liberia’s National Elections Commission (NEC) has begun a trial voter registration exercise to test the functionality of biometric voter registration equipment and also to train personnel of the election agency on what will be expected of them during the real exercise.
The Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, Amina Mohammed, has advised Nigerian judges to be neutral in their adjudication of electoral disputes that may arise from the forthcoming general elections.
Liberia President George Weah has issued a major foreign policy statement restricting the West African nation's diplomatic relationship to countries that have friendly ties with the United States as Russia influence grows in the region.
A regional coalition of pro-democracy civil society organisations has said Nigeria’s general elections have implications for similar polls taking place in two West African countries within the year. The two other West African countries are Sierra Leone and Liberia.
