The national orator for Liberia’s 178th Independence Anniversary, Rev. Dr. Emmett Lafayette Dunn, has called on President ...

President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has used the occasion of Liberia’s 178th Independence Day to call for national healing, economic fairness, and renewed regional solidarity. Delivering his keynote address ...

William Tolbert was killed during the 1980 coup - his body was then believed to be dumped in a mass grave.

The 12 April 1980 coup in which 28-year-old Sgt Samuel Doe took power ended well over a century of political dominance by the minority Americo-Liberians, the descendants of freed black slaves who ...

United States President Donald Trump has drawn mockery after he complimented the president of Liberia for speaking English “beautifully”, even though it is the country’s official language.

In the lead-up to that event, Boakai attended a service honouring President Samuel Doe, who took power in a coup in 1980 and died at the hands of fighters loyal to warlord Prince Johnson in 1990 ...

Speach by H.E. Joseph Nyuma Boakai at the Celebration of Liberia’s 178th Independence Day at the Centennial Pavilion in Monrovia. “ADDRESS BY HIS EXCELLENCY JOSEPH NYUMA BOAKAI, SR. PRESIDENT OF THE ...

US President Donald Trump praised Liberian President Joseph Boakai for his strong grasp of the English language on Wednesday. But the African leader was educated in Liberia, where English is the ...

Liberian leaders drew up a constitution in 1847 based largely on the American Declaration of Independence. “Asking the President of Liberia where he learned English when it’s literally the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump was basking in the praise of a group of African leaders on Wednesday, many of them speaking a different language, when the Liberian president took to ...

President Donald Trump was basking in the praise of a group of African leaders on Wednesday, many of them speaking a different language, when the Liberian president took to his microphone and ...

Donald Trump complimented the English of President Joseph Boakai of Liberia, a nation whose official language is English. Liberia was founded in 1847 when freed enslaved people were resettled in ...