Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is a Liberian politician who served as the 24th President of Liberia from 2006 to 2018. Sirleaf was the first elected female head of state in Africa.
Samantha Jane Power is an Irish-American journalist,diplomat and government official who is currently serving as the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development. She previously served as the 28th United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 2013 to 2017. Power is a member of the Democratic Party.
Mary Tanyonoh Broh is the former mayor of Monrovia,the capital city of Liberia. She first served the Liberian government in March 2006 as the Special Projects Coordinator for President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's executive staff. In 2007,she was promoted to direct the Passport Bureau in a successful attempt to curtail and eliminate corruption and bribery within the division. In 2008,Broh became the Deputy Director of the National Port Authority. In February 2009,she was selected to serve as Acting Mayor of Monrovia in place of the previous mayor,Ophelia Hoff Saytumah,in the President's effort to legitimize the Monrovia City Corporation's (MCC) administrative and financial management. Although Broh was seated in February 2009 by appointment,rather than by the usual democratic election process,she was not officially confirmed by the Liberian Senate.
Carolyn "Carrie" Hessler Radelet is the 19th and former Director of the Peace Corps. She was the Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer of the Peace Corps from April 2010 to December 2015,serving as Acting Peace Corps Director from September 2012 until June 2014 when she was elevated to Director. She resigned on January 20,2017.
Kent Brantly is an American doctor with the medical mission group Samaritan's Purse. While treating Ebola patients in Liberia,he contracted the virus. He became the first American to return to the United States to be treated for the disease.
Cyvette M. Gibson is the tenth Mayor of Paynesville,Liberia. Mayor Gibson has been a community advocate for many years,working over the past 17 years in women's empowerment,legal,and city administration in Liberia and the United States. She was appointed as acting Mayor on November 14,2012;the youngest mayor in the country. Gibson has focused her administration on improving and empowering communities in Paynesville by providing infrastructure,education,access to employment and entrepreneurship,and basic services such as water,energy,sanitation,housing,health,and safety.
Corruption is endemic at every level of Liberian society,making Liberia one of the most politically corrupt nations in the world. As such,corruption is not specifically a punishable crime under Liberian law,which further exacerbates the nature of corruption present in the country. When President Sirleaf took office in 2006,she announced that corruption was “the major public enemy.”
An epidemic of Ebola virus disease occurred in Liberia from 2014 to 2015,along with the neighbouring countries of Guinea and Sierra Leone. The first cases of virus were reported by late March 2014. The Ebola virus,a biosafety level four pathogen,is an RNA virus discovered in 1976.
Kenya–Liberia relations are bilateral relations between Kenya and Liberia.
Dawn M. Liberi is a diplomat,international development expert and former United States Ambassador to Burundi. She was nominated by President Barack Obama on July 10,2012 and confirmed by the Senate October 19,2012.
Erica Jean Barks-Ruggles is a diplomat and former United States Ambassador to Rwanda. She was nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the Senate in November 2014.
Mary Catherine "Molly" Phee is an American diplomat who has served as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs since September 2021. She previously served as the U.S. Ambassador to South Sudan from 2015 to 2017. She is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister Counselor.
Virginia Evelyn Palmer is an American diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to Ghana since 2022. Palmer is the former United States ambassador to Malawi. She was nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the Senate,beginning the assignment in January 2015.
Lisa J. Peterson is an American diplomat and the former United States Ambassador to Eswatini. She was nominated by President Barack Obama on September 16,2015,and confirmed by the Senate on Nov. 19,2015. She left her post on January 20,2021. Between January 20 and July 14,2021,she served in the Biden administration as the Acting Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security,Democracy,and Human Rights in 2021.
Christine Ann Elder is an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Liberia from June 2016 to March 2020.
Raj Panjabi is an American physician,social entrepreneur,professor and United States government official. Panjabi currently serves as senior director for global health security and biodefense on the United States National Security Council. Previously,Panjabi served as the 3rd U.S. Global Malaria Coordinator to lead the U.S. President's Malaria Initiative from February 2021 to February 2022. Panjabi was the first Asian American and first person born in Africa,where malaria remains endemic,to serve in the role. The U.S. President's Malaria Initiative,led by the U.S. Agency for International Development and co-implemented with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,has invested $8 billion to end malaria,helping save over 10.6 million lives and prevent over 1.7 billion cases globally.
A political scandal in Liberia developed in 2014 after the arrest of a group of South Korean businessmen and seizure of US$247,500 from them by the National Security Agency,a national level internal security agency of Liberia.
Events in the year 2016 in Liberia.
Events in the year 2014 in Liberia.
Events in the year 2012 in Liberia.
