There has been a rare gain for democracy in West Africa, a region where assault on democratic orders through military coups and disputed shambolic elections have become fashionable.
This was after the incumbent Liberian President George Weah conceded defeat to the former vice president, Joseph Boakai, in the country’s presidential run-off elections on November 14.
Liberia’s National Election Commission had to schedule a run-off election after Weah and Boakai failed to secure an outright majority in the first round of