Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria on phone in Monrovia on Monday, the Spokesman of the Force, Sam Collins, said the police were prepared for any eventuality.
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Ruling on an appeal for a re-run of the first round of elections held on October 10, the apex court said evidence provided by the appellants was insufficient to grant their prayers.
The hearing officer, Muana Ville, had trashed the complaints filed by the Liberty Party and its presidential candidate, Charles Brumskine, for lack of evidence.
The third-place finisher, Charles Brumskine, contested the outcome of the first round, claiming gross irregularities had occurred and accusing NEC officials of fraud, an allegation the body denies.
This is in a renewed effort to focus attention on the plight of the homeless, orphaned, abandoned, abused and indigent children across the African continent, a passion which Sirleaf shares with the foundation.
George Weah of the opposition Coalition for Democratic Change and Joseph Boakai of the ruling Unity Party, received more votes than the rest of the other candidates in the presidential race, thus qualifying them to participate in a runoff election.
NEC said in a statement on its website that the materials were imported from Slovenia and that they landed at the Roberts International Airport in Monrovia on Saturday.
The Head of the National Elections Commission, Jerome Korkoya, announced the final results of the presidential and parliamentary polls in the country on Friday, noting the electoral body was set for the runoff exercise.
Maria Arena, the Chief Observer of the EU EOM and member of the European Parliament, presented the report to journalists in Monrovia, the nation’s capital.
The West African country heads to the polls with 20 candidates in the race for the top job, as incumbent President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf prepares to step down after two terms in office
So far a total of 31 cases of the so-called mystery illness have been reported, including 13 deaths in an outbreak linked to the attendance of a religious leader’s funeral
In recent months, Liberia had been the only country in West Africa with known cases as neighbouring Sierra Leone was declared Ebola-free in November while Guinea’s last known case recovered two weeks ago
Liberia on Wednesday recorded the sixth Ebola confirmed case and second death since the virus resurfaced in June. A senior…
Liberia confirmed a second case of Ebola on Tuesday just a day after authorities said they had detected a new…
Nigeria on Wednesday raised the alarm of the possibility of a resurgence of the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease with the…
The World Health Organization said on Tuesday in Geneva that Liberia has lost its Ebola-free status after the confirmation of…
The last confirmed death in Liberia was on 27 March. On Saturday the World Health Organization said in a statement: “The outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Liberia is over
Liberia’s Information Minister, Lewis Brown, said the trial to test two vaccines from GlaxoSmithKline and New Link/Merck began on Monday in Monrovia at the government-run Redemption Hospital
This was contained in statement issued by the UN Health Agency on Saturday in Nairobi, Kenya
Aylward said that hospital beds in the capital, Monrovia, had been freeing up, the number of laboratory-confirmed cases had remained stable and the number of burials had fallen