Opposition Unity Party candidate, Joseph Boakai has been elected as new President of Liberia. Boakai defeated incumbent, President George Weah in a run-off election conducted on Tuesday. Boakai and Weah had run neck-and-neck in the first round of voting in October but none of them were able to secure the 50% needed for an outright victory, leading to Tuesday’s run-off. In that vote, Weah got the largest share and was just 7,000 votes ahead of Boakai. Boakai, 78, a former vice president who lost to Weah in the 2017 election,…
Read MoreJUST IN: LIBERIANS DUMP GEORGE WEAH, ELECT JOSEPH BOAKAI AS NEW PRESIDENT
