Author: Godfred Badu Quansah

Monrovia, Liberia – Sportswriter Fabrizio Romano has revealed that several European teams are interested in Divine Teah, a gifted midfielder from Liberia who was born in 2006. According to him, Belgium’s Gent, AC Milan, Sporting Lisbon, and Bayer Leverkusen are all keeping a close eye on the midfielder. Teah, was recently included in The Guardian’s top 60 talents of Next Generation for 2023. However, the 17-year-old has signed a pre-contract agreement with Swedish outfit Hammarby FC awaiting his 18-year birthday celebration to move permanently. The Nimba FC attacker has several caps with the National Soccer team of Liberia, Lone Star.…

AS HE NAMED HIS TRANSITION TEAM Monrovia, Liberia – President Elect Joseph Nyumah Boakai, as part of his meeting with President George Manneh Weah at the Executive Mansion on November 24, 2023, at the first joint presidential transitional team meeting, promised to work with the Weah team in the smooth transition of power. Amb. Boakai praised Mr. Weah for his ability to accept defeat and demonstrate democratic showmanship. Before the 2023 presidential race, Boakai, who has long advocated for accountability, pledged to audit the Weah and Ellen administrations. The first encounter between President Weah and President-elect Boakai is the first…

PRAISES PRESIDENT WEAH FOR CONCEDING DEFEAT Monrovia, Liberia – The University Lecturers for Boakai’s Election (ULBE) has congratulated President-elect Amb. Joseph Nyuma Boakai and Vice President Jeremiah Kpan Koung on their victories in the presidential election that took place on November 14, 2023. A well-known professional organisation in Liberia, University Lecturers for Boakai’s Election (ULBE) brings together doctors of medicine, PhD holders, attorneys, data scientists, bankers, educators, and more. Dr. Isaac P. Podah, the group’s president, stated during a press conference over the weekend that some of the contributing factors that led to the fall of the CDC-led government were…

AS 16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM AGAINST GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE BEGINS Capitol Hill, Monrovia – President George Manneh Weah has declared Saturday, November 25, International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and December 10, the International Human Rights Day, and is to be observed throughout Liberia as Working Holidays.        The Proclamation noted that the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, being cognizant of the dates of International Day of Violence Against Women, International Human Rights Day, International Human Rights Defenders Day, World AIDS Day, International Day of Disabled Persons and the Anniversary of Montreal Massacre has agreed to jointly observe these occasions, through…

WITH INAGURAL AND JOINT PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION TEAM 2023 Capitol Hill, Monrovia – Outgoing President George Manneh Weah and President-elect Joseph N. Boakai today, November 24, 2023, appeared in public. The two were seen sitting side by side with their vice at the Parlors of the Executive Mansion in Central Monrovia. Weah and Boakai went head-to-head in the Liberia 2023 presidential election. The National Election Commission of Liberia, on November 20, 2023, declared Boakai the winner of Liberia’s 2023 presidential election. On Friday, November 24, 2023, the team of President Weah and the Boakai tean met in the parlors of the…

Capitol Hill, Monrovia – Following his defeat by opposition Unity Party leader Joseph Boakai, President George Weah called his first cabinet meeting. In 2017, President Weah won fourteen out of fifteen counties in the second round of voting, beating Joseph Boakai. However, in the elections held on October 10, 2023, and November 14, 2023, Mr. Weah was unable to maintain his lead over Amb. Boakai. Weah conceded defeat and congratulated Boakai after hearning the results from the National Election Commission’s daily press briefing on the presidential election. This was done without the NEC making a final announcement, which is unusual…

COMMENDS PRESIDENT WEAH FOR GRACEFULLY ACCEPTING ELECTINO RESULTS Monrovia, Liberia – The U.S. Embassy has congratulated President-elect Joseph Nyuma Boakai on winning the November 14 presidential runoff. The embassy also commends President George Weah for gracefully accepting the election results, emphasizing the significance of peaceful democratic transitions. On November 20, 2023, the National Elections Commission declared the official results of the presidential runoff on November 14, 2023, declaring Boakai winner. According to the embassy, both the general elections on October 10 and the runoff were successful, solidifying Liberia’s democratic victories following the civil war and solidifying its status as an…

Monrovia, Liberia – The Swedish Embassy has announced that the Civil Service Agency – Liberia (CSA) and the Folke Bernadotte Academy (FBA), Sweden’s government agency for Peace Security and Development, have inked a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on the creation of training modules on professional ethics and the rule of law for civil servants. According to the embassy, the principles of the Rule of Law is the underlying theme for all our trainings. Whether it is computer training or payroll training, it must be there said Claudius Broderick, Director of Career Management and Training at the CSA. The Embassy hopes…

AFTER DECLARED WINNER OF LIBERIA’S 2023 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION Paynesville, Montserrado County – Full Speech of Boakai My fellow citizens, dear Liberians, on November 17th, 2023, I received a call from President George Manneh Weah to congratulate me. I want to thank him for being gracious in his concession after what will go down as one of the most closely contested elections in Liberia’s political history. He and his Coalition for Democratic Change fought hard, but there can only be one winner in an election. Liberia, by this democratic tradition, is a new model to the world. You, the people of…

Monrovia, Liberia – Xi Jinping, the president of the People’s Republic of China, has sent a special message of congratulations to Amb. Joseph Nyuma Boakai, Sr., the president-elect of the Republic of Liberia. In President Xi Jinping congratulations message to President-elect Boakai, he stated that he is ready to collaborate with Amb. Boakai to promote the positive collaboration between China and Liberia, as well as to strengthen bilateral ties. In addition to thanking the PRC for its many years of unwavering support of Liberia and its people, the President-elect expresses deep happiness with the special congratulations delivered. Additionally, in light…