(AFRICAN EXAMINER) - Joseph Boakai was sworn in Monday as Liberia’s president after his election victory over former football star George Weah, with the challenge of tackling poverty and corruption. The 79-year-old was sworn in for a six-year term after he narrowly beat former Ballon d’Or winner Weah in November’s run-off poll with 50.64 percent
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) - The former President of Sierra Leone, Ernest Bai Koroma, has departed his country and arrived in Nigeria on Friday, January 19, 2024, for medical treatment. This development is coming weeks after Koroma was released from house arrest in his country after his alleged involvement in what authorities called a coup attempt. Koroma
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) - Liberia’s outgoing president George Weah has said he has no plans to run for the top job again after his defeat in recent elections, local media reported Monday. Weah, 57, a former international football star, won the presidency in 2017 but lost in November polls to Joseph Boakai, who is due to
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) - Cape Verde has become the third African nation to be declared malaria free, even as the disease continues to kill hundreds of thousands of people on the continent, the World Health Organization said Friday. The Atlantic archipelago of about 500,000 inhabitants follows Mauritius in 1973 and Algeria in 2019. Worldwide some 43
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