Opposition political parties in Liberia are demanding a new constitution as opposed to mere amendments to the current one as proposed by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. President Sirleaf recently set up a Constitution Review Committee (CRC) to review certain clauses in the 1986 document. The opposition...
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Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has suspended one of her sons from the post of central bank deputy governor for failing to declare his assets, her office has said. Charles Sirleaf was among 46 officials suspended for not making the disclosure to anti-corruption officials, it said. He was one of three sons appointed to top posts by his mother following her...
Liberia’s government on Wednesday welcomed the lifting of UN sanctions against 17 Liberians who were part of former warlord-turned-president Charles Taylor’s regime. “The lifting of the travel ban is welcome news for the government ofLiberia,” Foreign Minister Augustine Naguafan said speaking on national radio shortly before the announcement was made by the UN...
LIBERIAN President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf’s supporters yesterday clashed with several dozen members of her ruling party who accuse her of favouring close relatives for top government jobs. Police and United Nations (UN) peacekeepers moved in to separate the two rival factions within her Unity Party, a Reuters reporter at the scene said, adding that light injuries were...
DEFENCE lawyers to Liberian former president, Charles Taylor, have notified the United Nations (UN)-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone that they plan to appeal his 50-year prison sentence for war crimes. A copy of court document obtained by Agence France Presse (AFP) shows that the defence signalled their intent to the court, based outside The Hague, on Monday. Also,...
