Liberia: "A New Heart for Our Nation" - Liberia Inaugural Sermon

Sermon Delivered on Sunday, January 15, 2006 at the Thanksgiving and Intercessory Service for the Inauguration of the New Government for the Republic of Liberia at First United… Read more »

Liberia: Text of Inaugural Address by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia

Following is the text of the Inaugural Address, as delivered on Monday, January 16, on the Capitol grounds in Monrovia, by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia. Read more »

Liberia: Liberians Welcome President's Pledge to Curb Corruption, Create Jobs

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf walked home today, through cheering, crying crowds that parted reluctantly as security officials cleared a path. Along the boulevard leading from the… Read more »

Liberia: Liberia's Methodist Bishop Appeals to Church Member Weah to Accept Election Results

My Fellow Liberians, Brothers and Sisters of the Faith Community in Liberia, Our Young People, the Precious Jewels and Future Leaders of the Blessed Nation, Liberia: Read more »

Liberia: Pledging 'Government of Inclusion', President-Elect Wants Liberians to' See Hope in Their Future'

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a veteran development official and politician who scored an unexpected victory in Liberia's presidential run-off last month, is currently on a brief private… Read more »

Liberia: U.S. Reiterates Fairness of Liberia Election As Sirleaf Arrives for Top-Level Meetings in Washington

Elections in Liberia "were free and fair and the most successful in Liberia's history," a State Department official said Tuesday. "Any opposition allegations of… Read more »

Liberia: Showered With Enthusiasm, Liberia's President-Elect Receives High-Level Reception in Washington

Having beaten the odds to win (helped by some polls and a helicopter), Africa's first female elected president faces daunting challenges. Read more »

Senegal: Sufism and Religious Brotherhoods in Senegal

Sufism and Religious Brotherhoods in Senegal Read more »

Liberia: Completed Tally Confirms Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as Winner in Liberia

Liberia's National Election Commission (NEC) has released the completed tally of last week's presidential run-off showing Ellen Johnson Sirleaf with 59.4 and George Weah with 40.6… Read more »

Liberia: Sirleaf Holds on to Large Lead in Liberia Presidential Race

With 97 percent of all ballots counted, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is set to become the first woman to win a nationwide presidential election in Africa. Read more »

Liberia: As Results Pour In, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Maintains Lead in Liberia Election

With vote counting from Tuesday's run-off presidential elections proceeding faster than the first round on October 11, Liberians may learn by the end of the week who they have… Read more »

Liberia: Early Returns from Liberia Show Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in the Lead

There was no rush to the polls or long lines at most polling stations, when Liberians cast ballots in the country's first presidential run-off election on Tuesday. But reports from… Read more »

Liberia: Liberians Go To Polls To Select Peacetime President

Heavy rains have loosed bridges from their moorings and made roadways into seas of mud, but long lines began forming hours before polls opened Tuesday morning in Liberia's… Read more »

Liberia: Weah and Sirleaf Close Out Campaigning As Liberia Prepares for First Presidential Run-off Race

"I always thought the nickname 'Iron lady' referred to her indomitable state of mind," said one of the journalists in the convoy that took Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and her caravan of… Read more »

Guinea: Local Residents Place High Hopes on Guinea's New Aluminum Refinery

For many citizens of Kamsar and Sangaredi, two cities about two hundred miles north of the capital Conakry in the West African nation of Guinea, bauxite mining has always been the… Read more »

Liberia: Campaigning in Liberia's Run-Off Presidential Race Is Underway

Campaigning for the run-off election in Liberia on November 8 for the presidency has begun at a lower volume than the first round, when hundreds of thousands of supporters of the… Read more »

Liberia: Liberians Prepare for Run-off Race

With final results from Liberia's presidential and legislative elections scheduled for release on October 26, the country is preparing for a second round to choose between the two… Read more »

Liberia: Liberians Prepare for Run-off Race

With final results from Liberia?s presidential and legislative elections scheduled for release on October 26, the country is preparing for a second round to choose between the two… Read more »

Liberia: As First Round Results Remain Stagnant, Liberian Elections Commission Chairman Receives Death Threats

With the counting of votes nearing completion in Liberia's presidential and legislative elections last week, the chairman of the National Elections Commission (NEC), Frances… Read more »

Liberia: Liberians Look Towards Runoff As Vote Counts Nears Completion

With nearly three-quarters of the ballots counted in Liberia's presidential election, it appears that no single candidate will receive more than half the votes needed to win an… Read more »

Niger: Africare Team Reflects on 35 Years of Work in Niger

As Africare celebrates its 35 year anniversary this week, representatives from the group's Niger program came to Washington to discuss the food crisis in the West African nation… Read more »

Liberia: All Quiet in Monrovia As People Nervously Await Elections Results

In the words of the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General to Liberia, Mr. Alan Doss, "it was a great day for Liberia." After six weeks of a mostly civil… Read more »

Liberia: Peaceful Campaign Ends in Liberia

For a country that has just emerged out of one of the deadliest civil wars in Africa's modern history, Liberia has managed to conduct a surprisingly peaceful campaign leading to… Read more »

Liberia: High Stakes for the Region as Liberians Prepare to Vote

Liberia faces a 'make-or-break' situation as voters go to the polls next week, officials and Africa-watchers in the United States agree. The election is a central facet of the… Read more »

Liberia: Last-Minute Problems Facing Elections in Liberia

Less than two weeks before Liberians go to the polls to elect a new president and a new legislature, a Supreme Court ruling has cast a shadow over a process that has so far been… Read more »