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7 Jan 20
Protesters against George Weah’s Liberian government gathered in the capital yesterday, with demonstrators angry at his handling of the struggling economy.
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10 Jun 19
Large protests have signalled growing public discontent with the economic policies and failure to tackle corruption of Liberia’s former footballer turned president.
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6 Dec 18
People in Liberia are stealing over half the electricity generated annually diverting cash away from extending power supply, the state-owned power utility has said.
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5 Feb 18
Liberia and the World Bank have signed a $24.67m grant agreement to boost economic transformation and governance in the west African country.
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30 Jan 18
Liberia’s newly sworn-in president has pledged to cut his own salary by 25% to fix the country’s “broken” economy.
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9 Jun 16
Antoinette Sayeh, director of the International Monetary Fund’s African Department, is to retire later this year.
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31 Mar 16
Liberia is on the brink of committing a “gross violation” of its international obligation under the right to education with plans to outsource the running of publicly funded schools, a United Nations...
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14 Jan 16
All three of the west African countries hardest hit by Ebola are currently free of the virus for the first time since the start of the epidemic two years ago, after the most recent outbreak of the...
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12 Jan 16
A hydropower plant planned for one Liberia’s remote Lofa County has received World Bank funding of $27m.
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4 Jan 16
Guinea was declared Ebola free last week after no new cases were reported for 42 days.
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22 Dec 15
The International Monetary Fund is to release a further $10.2m to support the economy in Liberia following the impact of the Ebola virus outbreak and the decline in global commodity prices.
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4 Nov 15
The International Monetary Fund has advised Liberia to strengthen its public finance management, debt sustainability and international reserves as the economic impact of the Ebola outbreak lingers.