May 25, 2013
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Liberia prexy pleads for unity, but justifies police closure of TV/Radios
November 12, 2011After winning over 90 percent of Tuesday's presidential runoff boycotted by her challenger Winston Tubman, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has invited her political opponents and other citizens to a national dialogue, in order to unite the country.
Carter Center urges dialogue, reconciliation and reform in Liberia
November 11, 2011The Carter Center election observer mission to Liberia says the deadly clashes on the eve of the polls and the boycott by the opposition candidate “suggest a significant failure of the political process to resolve electoral disputes peacefully within the framework of the law.”
Liberia: Sirleaf gets over 90% of runoff votes, but 37% turnout
November 11, 2011Polls kicked off as a one-horse race, because Winston Tubman of the main opposition CDC party challenging incumbent President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf had decided to boycott Tuesday’s Presidential runoff election.
But as it went, voters cast their ballots for both candidates.
ECOWAS says Liberia runoff poll free, fair,1st results due Thursday
November 10, 2011The ECOWAS election observer mission in Liberia urges Liberians to display patriotism and responsibility, in order to ensure respect for order and discipline during this critical phase of the country’s history, as it gives thumbs up to Tuesday's presidential runoff election.
Police probe burning of private radio in Liberia
November 9, 2011Police in Liberia are investigating what caused a fire that partly damaged one of Liberia’s oldest private radio stations, amidst suspicion that the blaze was deliberately started.
But the Manager of Radio ELWA, run by a Christian evangelical mission, SIM, said he believed Tuesday night fire was arson and the work of “the enemy”.
"I think Liberians want peace," says Pres Johnson-Sirleaf
November 9, 2011“I think Liberians want peace, they want their basic needs met, and that will be our obligation and our commitment,” said Liberian incumbent President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf when she cast her vote in the one-horse race presidential runoff election on Tuesday.
Ivory Coast: 'Transparent, inclusive legislative elections must be ensured'--New UNOCI Boss
November 9, 2011The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Côte d’Ivoire, Bert Koenders, on Tuesday met with Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara in Abidjan
Liberia: Single candidate election run-off amidst violence, media muzzling
November 8, 2011Voting has begun in Liberia's presidential run-off despite at least one death during opposition protests Monday
and a boycott over fraud claims by opposition candidate, Lawyer Winston Tubman.
UNMIL confirmes casualty in Liberia pre-poll violence, but urges restraint
November 7, 2011The UN peacekeeping Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) has confirmed that there was at least one death in Friday's violence in Monrovia, involving security forces and supporters of the main opposition party, Congress for Democratic Change (CDC), on the eve of the November 8 presidential runoff election.
''There are reports from our people on the ground of several injuries and some casualties. At this point I can confirm one casualty, says Yasmina Bouziane, Spokesperson of the UN peacekeeping force.
Liberian Lawyer takes ECOWAS to task, says insensitive to const crisis
November 7, 2011A prominent Liberian human rights lawyer, Dempster Brown has taken the sub-regional bloc, ECOWAS and incumbent President to task for insisting that the presidential runoff election goes ahead on November 8 without weighing the constititutional and political implications of a boycott by the main opposition CDC party.
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