Tag Archives: Liberia

After clashes on Monday between protesting students and police, authorities ruled that undergraduate classes at the University of Liberia be suspended indefinitely. The students were protesting against the university’s decision to cancel in-person classes for online classes, a move they said would curb the spread of coronavirus. But the students …

A senior Liberian police officer has been admitted at a hospital in the capital, Monrovia, after he was wounded in the leg in a late night shootout with armed robbers, BBC quoted Patrick Sudue police chief as saying. A notorious ringleader of an armed gang was killed in the incident, …

A young woman is among eight people found dead in an apartment in Liberia’s capital Monrovia, following a party on Wednesday night to celebration her graduation from university. There were scenes of wailing as hundreds of people gathered outside the apartment block in Paynesville suburb after the bodies including that …

A suspected case of Ebola in Liberia has been detected in a woman who came from the Guinean town of Nzérékoré, which is in the region of a new outbreak of the virus. According to the Liberian Health Minister Wilhelmina Jallah specimens had been collected from the woman who is …

Liberia’s President George Weah has ordered health authorities to heighten surveillance in the wake of an Ebola resurgence in neighbouring Guinea. Three people have died in Guinea and four others reportedly have symptoms. The Guinean region affected by the latest outbreak is near the border with Liberia. President Weah is …

The trial of a suspected warlord accused of atrocities during Liberia’s civil war begins in Finland on Wednesday, the first such case to be partly heard on Liberian soil. Gibril Massaquoi, a Sierra Leonean living in Finland since 2008, is accused of murder, aggravated war crimes and aggravated crimes against …

On 8th December, Liberians were called to the polls for a partial referendum. The majority of the citizens voted “yes” for the reduction of the presidential term proposed by Georges Weah. According to the partial referendum’s results of 15th December, Liberians have largely supported president Weah’s proposal which is to …