The poverty-stricken Liberia is investigating the mysterious disappearance of container loads full of cash valued at 89 million euros. Fifteen people are forbidden to travel abroad, including the son of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
The Liberian central bank turns out to have lost 89 million euros in cash. The government investigates what happened to the money and has forbidden fifteen people to leave the country. These include the son of former president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and the former head of the central bank.
After Nigeria, Liberia has also been startled by an outbreak of welding fever. Twelve people have died because of the dreaded virus infection. That's what the Liberian Health Service chief announced on the state radio Friday. So far, 28 cases of infection have been reported.
George Weah is the new president of Liberia. The former football star has clearly defeated his rival Joseph Boakai in the decisive second round of the election campaign. The 51-year-old Weah received support from 61.5 percent of the more than two million voters in the West African country.
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George Weah is in charge of the preliminary results of the first round of presidential elections in Liberia. The 51-year-old former footballer, who included AC Milan and Paris Saint-Germain, received over 39 percent of the votes.
Four of the victims of a recently emerged mysterious disease in Liberia have been tested positively for a form of meningitis, such as meningitis, said the health minister on Monday.
Nine people died and eight became ill after visiting Liberia in a funeral of a religious leader. That said the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday. Other sources speak of eleven dead.
A boy of fifteen years in Liberia deceased to the Ebola disease. He is the first death since the African country in September formally been declared Ebola free. The boy died Monday at a hospital in the city of Paynesville.
In the West African country Liberia is a case of Ebola occurred. The patient is a ten year old boy from the suburbs of the capital Monrovia. This has published an official from the UN in Liberia. The country was officially declared Ebola free on September 3rd.
