The Tana High-Level Forum on Security in Africa Secretariat has today announced that the President of the Republic of Liberia , H.E. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, will be the keynote speaker at the sixth Tana Forum to be held on 22-23 April 2017. H.E. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is the 24th and current President of Liberia.
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Liberia: Charles Taylor’s ex-wife named as VP candidate
Liberia’s international soccer star turned presidential candidate has named the ex-wife of former President Charles Taylor as his running mate. In a statement broadcast by Liberian radio stations Monday morning, George Weah said he and Jewel Howard-Taylor would head a coalition of three parties for the October election.
AP Explains: The African leader who refuses to leave
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West Africa leaders to continue Gambia mediation
West African leaders are still pursuing mediation to ensure a peaceful transfer of power in Gambia where President Yahya Jammeh refused to accept defeat in an election last month, Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said on Saturday. Sirleaf told reporters after a meeting among regional leaders in Ghana’s capital Accra that regional bloc ECOWAS did not yet intend to deploy its standby military force in Gambia.
Gambian electoral crisis tops agenda at West African summit ABUJA,…
West African leaders at a summit Saturday discussed how to get Gambia’s longtime ruler to accept an electoral defeat – and a military intervention was among the possible options. Coup leader Yahya Jammeh shocked Gambians by conceding defeat after a Dec. 1 vote, then changed his mind and called for a new election.
Gambian electoral crisis tops agenda at West African summit
In this Friday Dec. 2, 2016 file photo, Gambians celebrate the victory of Opposition coalition candidate Adama Barrow, run past an army soldier on the streets of Serrekunda, Gambia. The United Nations secretary-general says a takeover by Gambia’s security forces of the country’s electoral commission offices could compromise “sensitive electoral material” as the president refuses to accept being voted out of power.