Category: Campaign

Ex-Liberian Warlord President Charles Taylor, here being arrested and sent to The Hague In an article on BBC NEWS titled Is Ex-warlord Charles Taylor pulling Liberia’s election strings from prison? Reporter Charlotte Attwood explores the unlikely coalition between former footballer George Weah, a candidate in Liberia’s presidential election, and former warlord Charles Taylor’s ex-wife Jewel Howard Taylor, who is running as the vice-presidential candidate. Sources within the Trump administration stated, it’s troubling how quickly Liberians have forgotten their terrifying civil war including the rape of women and young girls along with the events that led to, at least, 250,000...

Political disintegration is plaguing Liberia as outgoing president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is bent on destabilizing the country’s electoral process. Globe Afrique’s ongoing research and factfinding revealed that the outgoing Liberian leader, who has a history of manufacturing political and economic crisis while manipulating people, fears being succeeded by a principled, educated and experienced Liberian presidential candidate that would, perhaps, focus on auditing the country’s finances and expenditures for the past 12 years as well as resuming issues related to the findings of the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission in which she was implicated as a mastermind of the Liberian...