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Liberia: Who Was at Fault for Monrovia Riots?

Liberia Elections 2011: Polling Stations Nearly Empty

Liberians queued up at various polling stations to exercise their constitutional right to vote in today's presidential run-off. Counselor Track reports on election-related clashes and the call to boycott

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Liberia: To Vote or Not to Vote?

Liberia: Reactions to the Resignation of Liberian Elections Chairman 1 November 2011
Liberia: Liberian Elections 2011 10 October 2011
African Women Striving to be Heads of State 4 September 2011
Technology for Transparency: Final Report 22 May 2011
Africa: Africans Share Childhood Memories Online 6 September 2010

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20 January 2012

Liberia: Was the Presidential Oath of Office Taken Improperly?

Written by Counselor Track · Elections, Governance

Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf took the oath of office on January 16, 2012 in Monrovia. One Liberian blogger argues that Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is not Liberia's President because she did not raise her right hand and kiss the Bible while taking the oath as the procedure requires.

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17 January 2012

Liberia: Lawmaker in the Web of Nudity

Written by Counselor Track · Governance, Human Rights

Netizens discuss the recent revelation of a scandalous episode of nudity widely known in Liberia as ‘Snoweleaks' or ‘Snowegate' which involves Edwin Melvin Snowe, Jr., a very popular lawmaker.

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11 January 2012

Global Voices in Dutch Looks Back on 2011

Written by Percy Balemans · Translated by Percy Balemans · Citizen Media

While the year 2012 is already well on its way, the translators of Global Voices in Dutch look back on 2011. Which posts stood out and what makes Global Voices so special?

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3 December 2011

African Bloggers React To UNESCO's Admission Of Palestine

Written by Abdoulaye Bah · Translated by Patricia Worth · History, Religion

The admission of Palestine as a full member of UNESCO on 31 October 2011 has prompted an intense debate, with people taking very different stands. Africans from the continent as well as the diaspora have also taken an active part in the debate online. However, whether they agreed or disagreed with Palestine's admission to UNESCO, the different sides have often projected the debate onto the internal problems of their own countries.

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20 November 2011

Liberia: Giving Free Press a Second Chance

Written by Counselor Track · Freedom of Speech, Governance

The judgment in the controversial media closure case in Liberia gave justice a rare opportunity to prevail. On November 7 the Liberian government shut down three media houses for allegedly spreading hate messages likely to incite violence.

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14 November 2011

Liberia: Who Did Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Win Against?

Written by Counselor Track · Elections, Governance

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf won re-election on Thursday in a presidential run-off boycotted by the opposition in Liberia. The main opposition figure, Winston Tubman, is seeking legal options to have President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf's re-election annulled.

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Updates about Liberia

30 December 2011

Updates

This is Boima Tucker's 2011 10 club friendly Afropop tracks: “I don’t think I’ve ever seen one song dominate a nation’s psyche like Junior Freeman and African Soldier’s “Dumyarea” did in Liberia this summer. Maybe it was because it was an election season, and all the politicians co-opted the song for their own campaigns…”

• Ndesanjo Macha

9 November 2011

English

A post for the Liberiaphiles from Chris: “Yesterday’s vote was marred by violence the day before. It looks like badly-trained and led police are to blame, but we will see.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

29 October 2011

English

Statement of African social justice activists on the decision of the British government to “cut aid” to African countries that violate the rights of LGBTI people in Africa: “We, the undersigned African social justice activists, working to advance societies that affirm peoples’ differences, choice and agency throughout Africa, express the following concerns about the use of aid conditionality as an incentive for increasing the protection of the rights of LGBTI people on the continent.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

24 August 2011

English

Voting ends in Liberia 23rd August referendum with the Liberia's Election Coordinating Committee (ECC), which deployed 400 elections observers throughout 15 counties reporting that voting was peaceful. The referendum was marred with an error on the ballot paper…

• Ndesanjo Macha

10 August 2011

English

Dr. Sipho Moyo visits Liberia, a country of many firsts in Africa: “Liberia was Africa’s first republic, colonized in 1822 and declared independent in 1847. It is also home to Africa’s first female president: President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. I met with her last week at the Executive Mansion in Monrovia during a ONE listening and learning trip.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

3 July 2011

French

Sylvio Combey comments [fr] on his blog: “Liberia established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to shed light on the acts of violence committed [from the 1970s to the 1990s]. But President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf herself is mentioned in the final report, which has yet to be adopted.”

• Abdoulaye Bah

8 March 2011

English

Jenny Hobbs explains how Liberian women mobile for peace after years of civil war: “Few people are aware that a group of women – calling themselves the Peace Women, dressed in colourful lappas (Liberian cloth), bright white t-shirts and white headscarves, were instrumental in bringing peace to Liberia.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

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