Tag: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Finally, after a three-year drought, the Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership has a winner: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa's first-ever female...

Former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has won the 2017 Mo Ibrahim award, designed to improve the quality of African political leadership,...

Liberia's Supreme Court halted preparations for next week's presidential run-off vote between former soccer star George Weah and Vice President Joseph Boakai...

Thousands lined up at polling booths in Liberia's capital on Tuesday for their first democratic transfer of power in 73 years in...

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has ordered four soldiers and their commanding officer to be punished for their actions during a protest...

The son of Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has resigned as chairman of the West African nation's state oil company, NOCAL, a...

A group of men accused of trying to set up a cocaine-smuggling route into Liberia from South America have been arrested in...

When Ellen Johnson Sirleaf became Liberia's president four years ago, even close aides admit neither she nor anyone else realised quite how...

Liberia's President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf said she will stand for re-election in 2011, ending speculation over her future despite a proposed ban on...

The UN Security Council has lifted its arms embargo on Liberia for one year, primarily to allow its peacekeeping mission there to...

The UN Security Council exempted the government of Liberia from an arms embargo slapped on the West African country six years ago...