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President Boakai's Plane Suffers Scare During Landing At RIA
FrontPage Africa has learned that the plane carrying President Joseph Boakai and his entourage experienced a near-crash incident while landing at the Roberts International Airport (RIA) on ...
Plane carrying Liberian president involved in landing scare
Flights were temporarily disrupted at Liberia main airport on Thursday night after a private jet carrying President Joseph ...
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Liberia: Government Mandates Agriculture Ministry to Regulate Rubber Prices Starting June
The Government of Liberia has mandated the Ministry of Agriculture to begin regulating the price of rubber across the country, starting June 2025. The move comes in response to mounting complaints ...
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Emergency Landing of Liberian President’s Jet Causes Flight Disruptions at Roberts International Airport
Liberia’s main aviation hub, experienced significant disruption on Thursday evening after the presidential jet ...
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Liberia’s new president takes office with a promise to ‘rescue’ Africa’s oldest republic
MONROVIA, Liberia — Liberia’s new president, Joseph Boakai, was sworn into office Monday after his narrow win in a November election. Boakai, who at age 79 is the country’s oldest sitting ...
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Joseph Boakai: Liberia's new president takes on tough challenge
Mocked by his critics as "Sleepy Joe", 79-year-old Joseph Boakai has been sworn in as Liberia's oldest-ever president after scraping a win in November's run-off election, with the help of a former ...
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Liberian president safely evacuated following private jet incident at airport
A private jet carrying Liberian President Joseph Boakai was involved in a runway incident at Roberts International Airport ...
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Liberia: Crash Warning - a Presidential Near-Miss That Reveals Liberia's Broken Infrastructure
Editorial - WHEN NEWS broke on Thursday that President Joseph Boakai had narrowly avoided a serious aviation incident at the Roberts International Airport (RIA), the nation exhaled in collective ...
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Liberian President, Boakai suspends over 450 officials for failing to declare assets
President Joseph Boakai has suspended more than 450 top government officials, including ministers, for failing to declare their assets as required by law. The affected officials, who include the ...
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Liberia’s New President Boakai Pledges to Revise Economy in Speech Cut Short Due to Heat
Liberia’s new leader Joseph Boakai pledged to revive the country’s economy and reduce hardships in his inauguration speech that was cut short because of extreme heat. The swearing-in ceremony ...
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NEWSMAKER After decades in the wings, Liberia's quiet man Boakai set for presidency
When Joseph Boakai won a place at Liberia's prestigious College of West Africa in the 1950s, he helped pay his fees by working as the school janitor, cleaning floors and toilets at night and ...
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Liberia President, 79, Helped Away From Podium During Inauguration Speech
Liberia's new president, Joseph Boakai, has recovered from an episode of heat-induced faintness that caused him to cut short his inauguration speech on Monday before being led off the podium ...