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Focus on Africa is a BBC news programme broadcast on the international feed of the BBC News channel, and on local partner channels of the BBC in African countries. [1] The programme was presented by Komla Dumor each weekday from its inception until his sudden death, aged 41, in January 2014. [2] The programme includes news, sport and business ...
Events. 22 January – Joseph Boakai is inaugurated President of Liberia, succeeding outgoing President George Weah, whom he defeated in the 2023 runoff election. [1] 27 March – A court in France sentences the former leader of the United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy Kunti Kamara to 30 years in prison on charges of committing ...
BBC Africa Eye is an investigative branch of the BBC World Service. It has a network of local and investigative journalists and researchers working across Africa and produces a bi-weekly TV and online investigations series broadcast in English, Hausa, Swahili and French. The series focuses on topics that are of interest and concern to young and ...
Liberia’s new president, Joseph Boakai, was sworn into office Monday after his narrow win in a November election. Boakai, who at age 79 has become the country's oldest president, promised to ...
Wycliffe Muia - BBC News. August 29, 2024 at 2:00 AM. Gloria Maya Musu-Scott served as Liberia’s justice minister and later as the chief justice until her retirement in 2003 [EPA] Liberia’s ...
Sports journalist, Sportswriter. Employer (s) BBC World News, BBC Africa, BBC Sport. Mimi Fawaz is a Nigerian-Lebanese sports journalist, show host and presenter who currently works as a sports presenter on Focus on Africa, a BBC news programme broadcast on BBC World News alongside BBC Africa and BBC Sports. She has worked for CNN, ESPN and ITV ...
Mass media in Liberia include the press, radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet. Much of Liberia's communications infrastructure was destroyed or plundered during the two civil wars (1989–1996 and 1999–2003). [ 1 ] With low rates of adult literacy and high poverty rates, television and newspaper use is limited ...
Liberia has an established history of civil violence following contested elections, particularly the 1985 Liberian coup d'état attempt which was the root cause of the First Liberian Civil War. This election is also notable as it is the first election without United Nations observers since the Second Liberian Civil War . [ 11 ]