Lebanon Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/lebanon/ The low down on African affairs Wed, 19 Sep 2018 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 Lebanon Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/lebanon/ 32 32 Nearly a billion rands worth of new banknotes goes missing in Liberia https://jjcornish.com/2018/09/nearly-a-billion-rands-worth-of-new-banknotes-goes-missing-in-liberia/ Wed, 19 Sep 2018 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2018/09/nearly-a-billion-rands-worth-of-new-banknotes-goes-missing-in-liberia/ Liberian President George Weah has banned foreign travel for top officials until nearly a billion rands in missing new banknotes has been found. Former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf insists the money did not disappear on her watch. Cash-strapped Liberia had new bank notes  printed in Sweden, Lebanon and China. The missing notes appear to have  […]

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]]> Liberian President George Weah has banned foreign travel for top officials until nearly a billion rands in missing new banknotes has been found.

Former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf insists the money did not disappear on her watch.

Cash-strapped Liberia had new bank notes  printed in Sweden, Lebanon and China.

The missing notes appear to have  been part of the consignment from the Scandinavian country.

Officials said initially it came in last year, when Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was still President.

Website Frontpage Africa claims it has documentary evidence that the missing notes actually were signed for in March and April this year, after President George Weah was at the helm.

Weah has made fighting corruption a cornerstone of his presidency. 

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