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Vol 59 No 20

Published 12th October 2018


Liberia

The heist that never was

Elected on a pro-poor ticket as a ‘man of the people’, George Weah has fast become mired in allegations of graft

President George Weah's carefully choreographed image as a champion of the slum poor, which got him elected with an overwhelming majority in December 2017, is unlikely to survive a slew of allegations, some of them self-inflicted.

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