After the enthusiastic use of K-Street lobbyists by former President George Weah who spent several million dollars on a group of spin firms including Republican-linked Ballard Partners Ice Miller Strategies and Strom Public Affairs President Joseph Boakai's government has been far quieter (Dispatches 9/8/22 George Weah signs up more Washington spin doctors)...

A lower turn out due to voters' difficulties in getting to the polls would favour the incumbent President George Manneh Oppong Weah of the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) and his running mate Vice-President Jewel Howard-Taylor ex-wife of jailed warlord Charles Taylor...

82% of votes counted opposition leader Joseph Nyumah Boakai had a narrow 800-vote lead over President George Weah giving him a 43...

The race for the votes of the also-rans The second round will be a repeat of 2017 when George Weah defeated Joseph Boakai by a 61...

Last month President George Weah used the occasion of his sixth annual State of the Nation address to declare his intention to seek re-election...

The spotlight on corruption at the highest levels of government in Monrovia suddenly shone brightly on 15 August when the United States Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) placed sanctions on three of the most influential members of President George Weah's government accusing them of corrupt schemes to siphon off state revenues...