African Studies
Utafiti: Journal of African Perspectives
Call for Papers: Utafiti is inviting you to submit your manuscript – any topic in the humanities - for consideration in the next issues.
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Political developments in Liberia saw a realignment of parties and factions as the country prepared for general and presidential elections in October 2023. In-fighting in the opposition Collaborating Political Parties (cpp) led to the withdrawal of the All Liberian Party (alp) and the Unity Party (up). The ruling Coalition for Democratic Change (cdc) similarly experienced in-fighting, but its constituent parties remained in the coalition and endorsed President George Weah as its candidate for the 2023 election. The fight among the parties had little impact on the economy ,which suffered increases in the prices of basic commodities mainly as a result of the Russia–Ukraine conflict. However, the economy grew by 4.8% during the year. Two new progressive legal reforms took place with the granting of prosecutorial powers to the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (lacc) and the adoption of dual citizenship to allow Liberians obtain citizenship of other countries without losing their Liberian nationality. Finally, Liberia conducted its second post-war census after the exercise had been delayed by nearly five years.