Liberia News

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George Weah promised a crackdown on endemic corruption as he was sworn in on Monday.

Weah, idolised in Liberia as "Mister George", will be sworn in on January 22 after winning Thursday`s run-off against vice President Joseph Boakai.

The National Election Commission (NEC) said Weah had won an insurmountable 61.5 percent of Tuesday's vote, which was delayed several weeks after a legal challenge from Boakai.

Unofficial tallies by media outlets have consistently shown Weah, a former AC Milan and Paris Saint-Germain player, ahead in the second round run-off vote, which is meant to herald the first democratic transition of power since 1944.

Whoever wins will succeed Africa`s first elected female head of state, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who took over at the helm of the small west African nation in 2006.

Voters were choosing a successor to President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who is stepping down after 12 years as Africa's first elected female head of state.

A report by the UN pointed out poor maintenance and serviceability of equipment and platforms used by the Indian troops and held back a reimbursement amount of Rs 338 crore, official sources said.  

Michelle Obama plans to promote her year-old global girls' education initiative during upcoming stops in Liberia, Morocco and Spain.

WHO said a 30-year-old woman died of Ebola on Thursday while being transferred to a hospital in the Liberian capital Monrovia.

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is no longer a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.

In UN peacekeeping operations, only three percent of the military and ten percent of the police were women, says India.

Most Ebola survivors were found to be suffering from neurological issues six months after infection.

The new death was a setback for the region seeking to end a two-year epidemic that has killed more than 11,300 people, and it was followed by a second case on Wednesday, heightening fears of further transmission.

 The two-year Ebola epidemic that killed more than 11,000 people across west Africa and triggered a global health scare is to be declared over Thursday, with Liberia the last country expecting the all-clear.

The 125-strong Indian Formed Police Unit were awarded medals during a parade ceremony held recently in Congo Town in Montserrado County.

WHO said the first confirmed case in the new outbreak was a 10-year-old boy who fell sick on November 14 and was hospitalised in the capital Monrovia three days later.

A Liberian teenager has been awarded the prestigious International Children's Peace Prize for his "tireless campaigning" to end violence against minors.

Sierra Leone is expected to be declared ebola-free by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Saturday, when it will have gone 42 days without any fresh case of the virus, the media reported on Tuesday.

A Liberian woman contracted Ebola in March by having sex with a survivor of the deadly viral disease.