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The Elections Coordinating Committee of Liberia has advanced five-count recommendations aimed at curbing hate speech and electoral violence in order to conduct free, fair and transparent elections come October. 

President George Mannah Weah has accused the former ruling Unity Party of engaging in a double standard play with Nimba County Senator Prince Y. Johnson while describing former Vice President Joseph Boakai as a “dishonest man”.

Dr Omar Alieu Touray, President of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission, has approved the deployment of 15-member Long-Term Election Observers (LTOs) to monitor key stages in the upcoming general election in Liberia.  Liberians are going to the polls for elections on Tuesday, October 10, 2023. A…

"I've Seen the Wall. Louis Armstrong on Tour in the GDR 1965" is on view at Das Minsk from September 16, 2023, through February 4, 2024.

In 2008 and in 2019, judges who sat on controversial presidential election petitions in election years, enjoyed quick judicial elevation from the parties in whose favour they decided. Also in 2019, a Chief Justice was guillotined ostensibly because he could not be trusted to determine presidential election petitions in a predictable way in the manner that his would be successor could.

The theatricals for winning the hearts and minds of the Liberian voters are all around us. The perceptual game of showing strength in the number of supporters is an age-long effective game plan of the parties, and it is one strategy that cuts across mainly the ruling Coalition For Democratic Change (CDC)  and the former ruling Unity Party (UP).

When the presidential election petition process began in March, Nigeria’s Supreme Court comprised 13 Justices.

Last week, various sources stressed the need for interaction between Kabul and the international community and reopening of girls’ schools, while Japan and the UN pledged $45 million in aid to Afghanistan.

Senator Prince Yormie Johnson’s recent decision to step down as political leader of his Movement for Democracy and Reconstruction (MDR) party is being attributed to his designation by the United States Treasury Department, under the Global Magnitsky Act or GloMag, for corruption, including votes buying during elections.

Incumbent President George Manneh Weah has bragged of being the best president in the history of Liberia while addressing thousands of supporters on his re-election campaign launch.