"We have the potential to promote a healthy economy in which Liberians and international investors can prosper...Our strategy is to achieve quick and visible progress that reaches a significant number of our people, to gain momentum, consolidate support, and establish the foundation for sustained economic development."

Thursday, 16th April 2009 | Washington, April 16, 2009

Liberia, recovering from a 14-year civil war, has slashed its foreign debt by buying back $1.2 billion in outstanding government debt from foreign commercial creditors at a discount of nearly 97 percent of its face value, the steepest discount ever negotiated on developing country commercial debt, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf announced.

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Monday, 13th April 2009 | THE WASHINGTON POST

This article was published in the Washington Post Newspaper on 9 April 2009 by Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

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Wednesday, 18th March 2009 | MICAT Press Release

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is among a number of African leaders discussing the impact of the global financial crisis on Africa, with the view of formulating a common African position for consideration by the World’s leading economies known as the G-20, at its Summit early next Month.

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Friday, 6th March 2009 | MICAT Press Release

FINLAND PRESIDENT ARRIVES FOR INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM

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Wednesday, 25th February 2009 | MICAT Press Release

The Government of Liberia says widespread rumors emanating from parts of the city of Monrovia and elsewhere in the country of an imminent water shortage and wells running dry by 6 a.m. on Wednesday, 25 February 2008 is untrue and urges all citizens to go about their normal business.

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