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Liberia’s President George Weah concedes victory after tight run-off election

CNN — Liberia’s President, George Weah, has conceded defeat to opposition candidate Joseph Boakai after a tight run-off election. Weah, a former soccer star, called Boakai after the country’s National Elections Commission (NEC) released provisional results on Friday. With nearly all ballots counted, Boakai, a 78-year-old former vice president of Liberia, won 51% of the …

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Egypt Independent November 19, 2023

Liberia presidential election heads for run-off vote

Reuters — Liberia’s electoral commission on Tuesday scheduled a presidential election run-off for November after results showed that the two frontrunners, President George Weah and opposition leader Joseph Boakai, had failed to secure enough votes. Weah holds a slim lead at 43.83% of the vote, while Boakai has 43.44%, according to tallied results from 100% …

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Egypt Independent October 25, 2023

Liberians head to the polls in high stakes elections amid flaring tensions

CNN — Liberians are voting Tuesday in high-stakes presidential and parliamentary elections – the first since the 2018 exit of a UN mission that kept the peace for more than a decade in a country scarred by two devastating civil wars. As well as the 14-year civil war that had claimed 250,000 lives by the …

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Egypt Independent October 10, 2023