Author: Rodney Sieh

Monrovia – Lusine Kamara is quietly making a case as the sleeper of the 2023 Presidential race. Over the course of the past year, mammoth crowds of supporters have thronged Kamara’s All Liberia Coalition Party rallies in numbers rivaling the top three candidates, the incumbent George Manneh Weah of the Coalition for Democratic Change, former Vice President Joseph Boakai of the Unity Party and Alexander Cummings of the Collaborating Political Parties (CPP).

DAKAR – Peter Cole is using his voice and power where it matters most; in a new song, Don’t Stay Home; Go Vote, released this week, the Liberian musical sensation, a prodigy of the great Yousouf Ndour, based in Dakar, Senegal uses his power and soulful voice to speak truth to power while admonishing Liberians not to waste their votes.

Monrovia – Toward the close of the 2017 Presidential elections, then Vice President Joseph Boakai drew one of the biggest gatherings of Unity Party supporters, striking fears into opponents, including the then opposition Coalition for Democratic Change, that the presidential election was pretty much a wrap.

Monrovia – With less two months to the October elections in Liberia, FrontPageAfrica has been reliably informed that the international community is growing increasingly worried over the Government of Liberia’s delay in making funding available for the security sector for the upcoming elections. The funding delay could undermine security of the pending elections.

Monrovia – The leading opposition parties looking to unseat the incumbent President George Manneh Weah at the polls in October are struggling to produce campaign money. Judging from the dominant display of campaign materials by the ruling Coalition for Democratic Change, across the capital Monrovia, a lot of parties appear to be playing catchup while the smaller parties and third-tier candidates are barely visible at all, leaving many political observers baffled, fearing that the incumbent may be on course for an easy ride to a second term.

Monrovia – In the elections of October 1985, four parties contested the race for the Liberian Presidency: Samuel Doe’s National Democratic Party of Liberia(NDPL), Jackson F. Doe’s Liberia Action Party(LAP), school teacher, Gabriel Kpolleh’s Liberia Unification Party(LUP) and Edward Kesselly’s Unity Party(UP). It was the first elections since the April 12, 1980 coup d’etat that brought Doe to power but more importantly, it was also the elections that triggered the long-running civil war.

Monrovia – Alexander Cummings has heard the noise against his electability. Unfazed and unbothered, he recently asked a rhetorical question to a small group of supporters: “Whether Liberians are eager for ‘real change’ to join him in turning the tide on October 10, instead of questioning his electability.”

Monrovia – No longer walking in the shadows of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Joseph Nyumah Boakai, the standard bearer of the Unity Party is taking a stab at his second go in his quest for the Presidency, ever determined to do it on his own terms – and in his own way. In the process, he’s also trying to do what has never been done in 152 years, return a former ruling party to state power in Liberia’s rugged political history.

Monrovia – In a season of political discontent when leading candidates for the October elections have coined monikers in a bid to build momentum, the incumbent George Manneh Weah is waiting in the wings and gearing up for what is inarguably the biggest game of his political life as he prepares to defend his presidential turf and fend off rivals looking to stake their claim.

Washington – In June 2021, US President Joe Biden unveiled his administration’s National Security Strategy in which fighting corruption was deemed a national security issue for the United States of America.