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/ 18 November 2005
Presumptive president-elect Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf said on Thursday she is looking for a few honest men, and women, to form a government able to tackle the challenge of rebuilding war-torn Liberia. ”There are going to be three basic requirements: the requirement of competence; the requirement of honesty; and the requirement of the regard and protection of human rights,” she told reporters.
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/ 17 November 2005
Hearings into Liberian presidential candidate George Weah’s claims of vote fraud opened amid confusion on Wednesday, when his lawyers failed to deliver witnesses or documents to back up allegations he was cheated of a rightful win in November 8 polls. Weah’s supporters have held three days of mostly peaceful protests.
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/ 16 November 2005
Liberian officials on Wednesday opened hearings into claims of vote fraud made by trailing presidential candidate George Weah, who has urged his supporters to quell protests even as the government imposed a ban on demonstrations in the capital. Preliminary results showed that Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf had won nearly 60% of votes.
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/ 14 November 2005
George Weah was on Monday to rally his supporters behind claims he was cheated out of a win in Liberia’s presidential vote, even as pressure mounted for him to concede and clear the way for Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf to become Africa’s first elected woman president.
If Liberia had a lightbulb for everyone who has promised electricity as part of its reconstruction, the capital Monrovia would be lit up like Las Vegas, and not wreathed in perpetual darkness. As the electoral campaign for October 11 polls winds down, presidential candidates are stepping up their promises, committing to bring current and running water to the roughly one million residents.
United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday wrapped up a three-day forum in Dakar, Senegal, on boosting trade ties between Africa and the world’s largest economy, which for many Africans fell short of concrete commitments to assist their home-grown enterprise.
Senegal’s former prime minister was on Friday being questioned by police over claims he overspent hundreds of millions of rands on a road project in his stronghold of Thies. Idrissa Seck’s supporters clashed with police in the streets around his home and police headquarters in the capital, Dakar.
Africa expressed grief and shock on Thursday after a string of explosions in London killed at least 37 people, amid concerns that ending African poverty will take a back seat to security issues at the Group of Eight summit in Scotland. ”The world and all progressive humanity are with you,” said President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria.
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/ 27 October 2004
Former combatant Marcus Weah says he was forced to smoke marijuana to make him brave in battle, and quit easily the day guns fell silent in Liberia, but he is rare. For the thousands of ex-fighters who will find quitting a drug habit more difficult, there is little available help.
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/ 8 December 2003
The first of two wars to ravage Liberia erupted before Malinda Lakome was even born. But now the 13-year-old soldier in the Liberian national army is ready to trade his weapon for a driver’s licence to help steer the west African state towards peace.