News Liberia Politics: Editorial: July 4 citizenship events show emptiness of Lt. Gov.'s attack on multiculturalism
Friday, July 5, 2019 -- Lt. Gov. Dan Forest wants us to believe the nation is weaker because of differences in background, nation of origin, forms of faith and worship. He is wrong. It is our nation's ability to embrace those differences in a system where allegiance isn't to any individual, claims of divine right, or dictator whose power rests in fear. Citizens don't swear allegiance to a president or any politician. Our allegiance is to the Constitution and the law.
News Liberia Politics: Liberia: Bring Back Mary Broh to Clean Monrovia
From every indication, the current Mayor of Monrovia can't do the job effectively. The bold-tie carrying Jefferson Koijee is as inept as anything else with a dead vision for a city just over 1 million residents.
News Liberia Politics: West Africa: Liberia and Sierra Leone - Different Lessons in How Not to Deliver Post-War Justice
Monrovia/Freetown — Greater financial commitments and political reforms are needed in both countries for truth and reconciliation to work. Fifteen months into Liberian President George Weah's ...
News Liberia Politics: Liberia: Creeping Political Divorce?
-Did Weah Ever Believe Roaring June 7 Could Portray Such Grand Swell? The government of President George M. Weah has been greatly confronted with a noisy domestic pressure emanating from a ...
News Liberia Politics: Liberia: We Don't Want Political Prisoners
Opposition Alternative National Congress (ANC) political leader Alexander Cummings warns government against introducing the culture of imprisoning critical voices as political prisoners. ...
News Liberia Politics: How an aid gusher helped and hurt Liberia
Having lost so much foreign support, Liberia’s economy is struggling. Reportedly accompanying these economic woes are an uptick in violence and political unrest that’s now hard to ignore. ...
News Liberia Politics: Head of Disabled Community in Grand Bassa Wants Fewer Political Parties
“If political parties don’t want to merge during the first round of the elections, then why do they merge in the second round to support one party? Why do they merge as oppositions, after each ...
News Liberia Politics: From Reagan to Zelensky, stars who went into politics
Paris (AFP) - Ukrainian comedian Volodymyr Zelensky, whom exit polls showed winning Sunday's presidential election in Ukraine, follows several celebrities -- from US actor Ronald Reagan to Liberian ...
News Liberia Politics: Liberia: Opposition Leaders Risk Prosecution
From all indications, the Liberian Government is not taking the June 7, 2019 planned protest lightly, vowed to go after planners and organizers including leaders of opposition political parties ...
