Joseph Boaki Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/joseph-boaki/ The low down on African affairs Wed, 11 Oct 2017 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Joseph Boaki Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/joseph-boaki/ 32 32 Irregularities reported in Liberia elections https://jjcornish.com/2017/10/irregularities-reported-liberia-elections/ Wed, 11 Oct 2017 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2017/10/irregularities-reported-liberia-elections/ One of Liberia’s main political parties has called for a delay in announcing the final result of Tuesday’s election, citing irregularities in the vote. Liberty Party candidate Charles Brumskine is not one of the front-runners to take over from Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. ends intro Local media puts former football star George […]

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]]> One of Liberia’s main political parties has called for a delay in announcing the final result of Tuesday’s election, citing irregularities in the vote.

Liberty Party candidate Charles Brumskine is not one of the front-runners to take over from Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

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Local media puts former football star George Weah and Vice President Joseph Boakai in the lead for the presidential race.

The National Elections Commission was expected to release preliminary results today.

Liberty Party national chairman Benjamin Sanvee says they’re deeply troubled by the discovery of numerous incidents of irregularities and fraud that occurred during the elections.

He threatens to take appropriate legal action if the election commission does not halt further announcements of election results.

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]]> Liberians counting votes after yesterday’s poll https://jjcornish.com/2017/10/liberians-counting-votes-yesterdays-poll/ Tue, 10 Oct 2017 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2017/10/liberians-counting-votes-yesterdays-poll/ Liberians are counting the votes from yesterday’s election expected to the first democratic transition in living memory. Still recovering from a  protracted civil war, it is vital that the outcome is accepted and doesn’t spark fresh violence. Liberians peacefully  overcame organisational and procedural problems to cast their ballots yesterday. It’s unlikely the exercise will produce […]

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]]> Liberians are counting the votes from yesterday’s election expected to the first democratic transition in living memory.

Still recovering from a  protracted civil war, it is vital that the outcome is accepted and doesn’t spark fresh violence.

Liberians peacefully  overcame organisational and procedural problems to cast their ballots yesterday.

It’s unlikely the exercise will produce a clear winner.

So a run-off between the two top candidates is in prospect next month.

Initial indications are these will be former football star George Weah and President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s deputy Joseph Boaki.

Whoever emerges will have a herculean task of beating corruption and driving Liberia out of its reliance on foreign economic aid to finance a country still recovering from civil war and the 2014 Ebola outbreak.

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