June 15, 2018
Africa: New Think Tank Appointment for Johnson Sirleaf
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who stepped down as Liberian president earlier this year, has been appointed to the advisory board of an elite African think tank which explores ways of… Read more »
June 10, 2018
Africa: Migration Can Benefit Africa, Says New UN Body's Report
In an age of emerging populism in both the global north and south, migration often gets a bad rap. Read more »
May 28, 2018
West Africa: Helping to Bring Perpetrators to Justice at Home
Activists and victims of some of the worst crimes committed in West Africa sat down together in Banjul, Gambia recently to talk about how to bring to justice more people… Read more »
May 24, 2018
Africa: On Africa Day - Who Has Taken Up the Mantle of Pan-Africanism?
Pan-Africanism – the liberation of Africans through regional cohesion and solidarity – has played a crucial role in shaping the continent's development. Read more »
February 13, 2018
Africa: Statement by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Receipt of the Ibrahim Prize
It is an honor to have been selected for the Ibrahim Prize for African Leadership. By choice, I have led a life of service and sacrifice on behalf of the Liberian people, and I… Read more »
November 03, 2017
Liberia: Sirleaf's Legacy and the New President's Challenge
In the second round of historical presidential elections, Liberians must ask themselves what they have to gain and what they stand to lose if they do not get this right. Here… Read more »
September 26, 2017
Liberia: Sirleaf Delivers Final Speech at U.S. Capitol as President
Remarks by Her Excellency Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of the Republic of Liberia, on the Occasion of a joint program sponsored by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP),… Read more »
January 24, 2017
Liberia: 'Accounting for Our Stewardship' - President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
ANNUAL MESSAGE To the Sixth Session of the 53rd National Legislature of the Republic of Liberia Read more »
October 03, 2016
Africa: Africans Suffer Setbacks in Safety and Rule of Law - Report
Africa's premier survey of the performance of its national governments says safety and the rule of law have on average declined across the continent. Read more »
June 09, 2016
Africa: Thirty Nations Cut 'Multidimensional' Poverty in 'Runaway Success'
According to a new analysis from the Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative at the University of Oxford, 30 of 35 sub-Saharan African countries analysed for changes to… Read more »
May 29, 2016
Liberia: Young Entrepreneur Builds Jobs & Futures
Mahmud Johnson is founder and chief executive of J-Palm Liberia, an oil palm processing business he founded in 2013. He is one of a new group of young Liberians who attended… Read more »
April 28, 2016
Liberia: Impoverished Hard-Hit Area Points to Ebola Recovery
You can't walk too far along West Point's main thoroughfare before realizing that life in the slum community is much like it was before the Ebola epidemic made it a battle ground… Read more »
Liberia: Ebola Survivors Network Eases Transition Home
Josephine Karwah held back tears as she recounted being abandoned by friends and neighbors. The twenty-nine-year-old had contracted Ebola while taking care of her sick parents.… Read more »
January 30, 2016
Liberia: Ebola - While World Waited, Liberians Acted
Ebola hit close to home – hard – as it reached its peak in 2014. Two members of my church - one a nun and the other a social worker who had been under 21-day quarantine… Read more »
February 04, 2016
Liberia: The Ebola Stories That Don't Get Told
International news reports about Liberia left the impression of overwhelming irrationality in response to the Ebola crisis – an impression that endures among both policy… Read more »
March 17, 2016
Liberia: 'Pulling Together' After Ebola & Economic Downturn – Commerce Minister
When Axel Addy was tapped by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to become Liberia's Minister of Commerce and Industry three years ago, after almost a year as deputy minister, the… Read more »
August 10, 2015
West Africa: Why Should West Africa Hesitate to Endorse Term Limits?
President Barack Obama's widely-publicised remarks in Addis Ababa on African presidents who refuse to step down when their terms end highlights a vigorous debate which is going on… Read more »
June 18, 2015
Liberia: New Disease Control Center to Develop Ebola Response Model
"By this time last year we were down in the trenches", recalled Winnie Scott-McDonald, the Administrator of Liberia's largest referral hospital, the John F. Kennedy Medical Center.… Read more »
April 15, 2015
West Africa: Presidents Appeal for Post-Ebola Aid Ahead of Obama Talks
The leaders of the West African countries hardest hit by the Ebola outbreak of the past year have called on the international community to support a recovery plan which will… Read more »
West Africa: Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea Presidents Call for Post-Ebola Recovery Plan
Presidents Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, Alpha Conde of Guinea and Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone appeal for international support in five key areas for a common economic… Read more »
January 03, 2015
Africa: AllAfrica's Most Read Stories of 2014 (Includes Sex)
The abuses of Nigeria's Boko Haram militants, especially the abduction of the Chibok schoolgirls, and the outbreak of Ebola in west Africa dominate the list of developing news… Read more »
December 23, 2014
Liberia: Eco-Lighting Helps Battered Monrovia See Beyond Ebola
In a shop near the heart of the densely packed West Point neighborhood in Liberia's capital that was quarantined in August to slow the spread of Ebola, retiree Abubakar K. Sherif… Read more »
December 11, 2014
West Africa: Why TIME Tapped Ebola Fighters
"The rest of the world can sleep at night because a group of men and women are willing to stand and fight." That's why TIME named Ebola Fighters as the Person of the Year 2014,… Read more »
December 01, 2014
West Africa: 'Huge Risk' of Ebola Spreading, UN Warns
"There is a huge risk to the world that Ebola will spread," the head of UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), Tony Bunbury, warned in an interview with the BBC. He said… Read more »
November 25, 2014
Liberia: Liberia Keeps Its Foot on the Pedal to End Ebola
The incidence of reported Ebola cases is no longer increasing nationally in Liberia, enabling the United States government to consider scaling back the number of Ebola Treatment… Read more »