Shifting the Political Rhetoric
-- Senatorial aspirant takes transparency and accountability to voters
All through in Liberian politics, people seeking elective offices have campaigned on promises to...
Senate Questions Credibility of Ongoing Voter Roll Update
Cites Finance Minister and NEC Acting Chairperson
The leadership of the Senate has cited Finance and Development Planning...
Voter Roll Update’s Fate Hangs
-As an injunction awaits NEC at court for failure to pay a Liberian election materials vendor and alleged foul play
NIR Craves Increased Budget Support
Amid the ongoing scrutiny of the 2020/2021 National Budget to the tune of US$535.4 million, the National Identification Registry (NIR) has appealed...
ECC Announces Deployment of Observers for Voter Roll Update
The Elections Coordinating Committee (ECC), Liberia’s largest domestic elections observer network has announced the deployment of 89 short-term observers and County Coordinators...
Liberia’s Constitutional Referendum on Dual Citizenship and Reduced Political Tenure
By Ibrahim Al-bakri Nyei
Liberians will in December 2020 go to a referendum to vote on proposed changes to...
NEC Trains Journalists on Voters Roll Update
Ahead of December 8, 2020 Senatorial Elections, the National Elections Commission ( NEC), with support from United Nations Development Programme (UNDP),
‘Let’s Make President Weah A ‘Benevolent Dictator’
-- Finance Minister Samuel Tweah urges CDC partisans
Minister of Finance and Development Planning, Samuel D. Tweah, Jr., is craving the indulgence of Liberians across...
NEC Seeks PUL’s Help with Civic Education
... on Voter Roll Update
The National Elections Commission (NEC) has written the Press Union of Liberia requesting its assistance to conduct civic education on...
‘Postpone Referendum’
Grassroots Alternative Movement urges government, citing absence of required civic education and that it would be a potential waste of resources
Grassroots Alternative Movement (GAM),...
FLY To Train 300 Youths in Monitoring Electoral Violence
Ahead of the Senatorial mid-term elections, the Liberia Federation of Youths (FLY) in partnership with Liberia Crusaders for Peace (LCFP) and the Catholic Justice...
Liberia-PBO Launches COVID-19 Elections Monitoring, Violence Prevention Platform
Ahead of the Mid-term Senatorial Elections in Liberia, the Peace Building Office (PBO) in partnership with the Government of Liberia with support from its...
NEC Launches Civic Voter Education
-As ruling coalition, main opposition, shun signing Code of Conduct
With less than one hundred days to the December 8 Special Senatorial Election, the National...
New Election Watchdog of Experts Springs Up
A group comprising Liberian experts on elections has been set up to provide civic and voter education and monitor electoral activities in Liberia ahead...
FDA to Receive 2 Boats from World Bank to Improve Ecotourism...
Authorities at the Forestry Development Authority (FDA), has disclosed that the entity, with support from the World Bank, is expected to receive 2 boats...
ECC: Electoral Violence Undermines Credibility of Elections
The Elections Coordinating Committee (ECC) says it is deeply concerned about the trend of violence that is taking place in the country prior to...
NEC Conducts Institutional, Consultative, Capacity Enhancement Workshop
The National Elections Commission (NEC) has conducted a four-day institutional, consultative and capacity enhancement workshop for on-boarding and Senior Election Commissioners and Managers.
The exercise...
President Weah Again Violating Tenured Positions?
Ambassador Lewis Brown warns Senate that confirming 'NEC nominees’ would set dangerous precedence'
Barely a year into his 6-year tenure at the helm of national...
UNDP Presents Assorted ICT Supplies NEC
The National Elections Commission (NEC) has received from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) assorted materials worth US$72,000 to support the Information Communication Technology...
President Weah Nominates Two Women to Head NEC
The President of Liberia and self-proclaimed "Feminist-in-Chief", George Manneh Weah, has nominated two women to chair and co-chair the National Elections Commission (NEC).
At the...