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The Economic Community of West Africa States, ECOWAS, has described as “unfortunate” the decision by Liberia`s main opposition to boycott the November 8 presidential runoff and urged Liberians to go to the polls. ECOWAS cautioned the country’s political leaders against inciting their supporters to violence and vowed to endorse any result that would emanate the poll that would be certified ...

Liberia’s opposition leader Winston Tubman has been flown to the neighboring Ghana to receive medical attention after he was reported to have collapsed, the Liberian Daily Observer reports. Counselor Winston Tubman is the flag bearer of Liberia’s opposition Congress for Democratic Change, CDC. A source at the United Nations Hospital in Liberia where Tubman was first rushed to after he ...