Six years of public service, national development and reforms undertaken during the Weah administration from 2018 to 2024.
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In December 2023, the World Bank approved additional financing under RETRAP to support an 85 km all-weather road link from the Côte d’Ivoire border through Toe Town to Zwedru.
The 45 km Roberts International Airport–ELWA highway expansion project was launched during the administration, with groundbreaking in 2020 and asphalt pavement reported underway by the Ministry of Public Works in June 2023.
Liberia and the World Bank signed a US$40 million Urban Resilience Project in 2022 to improve flood resilience, urban infrastructure and planning capacity.
In February 2022, the African Development Fund approved US$12.13 million from project savings for additional works under the Fish Town–Harper Road Project, including about 11.5 km of road works and local economic-support activities.
The approximately 13-kilometre road corridor formerly known as Somalia Drive was completed and dedicated as the Japan Freeway in July 2021.
In December 2018, the World Bank approved a $29 million IDA credit for the Liberia Southeastern Corridor Road Asset Management Project.
President Weah conceded the 2023 presidential runoff on 17 November, before final certification, after the count showed an insurmountable lead for Joseph Boakai.
Liberia's 2023 general elections were the first since UNMIL's departure to be organised solely by Liberian institutions, with international observers positively assessing the administration of election days.
In 2022 Liberia adopted an amended LACC Act, a Whistleblower and Witness Protection framework and a revised Code of Conduct as part of reforms supported under the IMF programme.
Liberia amended its nationality law in 2022 to permit dual citizenship and give Liberian women and men equal rights to transmit nationality to children born abroad.
The Revenue Sharing Law adopted in 2022 created a legal framework for sharing revenues between Liberia's central government and local governments.
President Weah signed Liberia's Domestic Violence Act into law in August 2019 following passage by the Legislature.
Liberia's Kamara Abdullah Kamara Act of Press Freedom entered into force in February 2019, repealing three criminal-speech provisions of the Penal Law.
President Weah signed Liberia's Land Rights Act into law in September 2018 after its passage by the Legislature, creating a landmark statutory framework for customary and other land rights.
President Weah signed the Local Government Act in September 2018, establishing a statutory framework for decentralisation and local governance.
Executive Order 115 suspended import tariffs on specified agricultural products and materials in January 2023.
The World Bank approved US$40 million for a national fisheries programme aimed at improving fisheries management, livelihoods, value addition and aquaculture.
The World Bank approved US$55 million in IDA financing for Liberia's Rural Economic Transformation Project to support smallholder farmers, agribusinesses, market access and rural infrastructure.
World Bank-supported reforms reduced the electricity tariff applied to eligible low-consumption households from US$0.385/kWh to US$0.22/kWh in 2021 and then to US$0.15/kWh in 2022.
Executive Order 107 suspended import tariffs on specified off-grid solar and renewable-energy products in May 2022.
Key sections of the Côte d'Ivoire–Liberia–Sierra Leone–Guinea regional transmission line were energised in Liberia during 2021, enabling regional power imports during the Weah administration.
The World Bank-backed LESSAP programme began in 2021 as a multi-phase effort to expand reliable and affordable electricity access in Liberia.
The US$257 million U.S.–Liberia Millennium Challenge Compact reached successful closeout in January 2021 after investments in electricity, water-related infrastructure, energy regulation and road-maintenance systems.
Regulatory reforms during the administration expanded the framework for digital financial services, including amendments to the Payments Act, digital-credit rules and consumer-protection measures.
The IMF reported a strong economic recovery in 2021, with real GDP growth of 5.0 percent and year-end inflation falling to 5.5 percent.
The IMF approved a four-year US$213.6 million Extended Credit Facility arrangement for Liberia in December 2019 to support macroeconomic stabilisation and governance reforms.
Liberia expanded social cash transfers during the COVID-19 period, using mobile money to reach poor and vulnerable households in urban and rural communities.
President Weah dedicated the 14 Military Hospital in Margibi County on 1 September 2021 following construction initiated during his administration.
In 2020, the World Bank approved additional financing to expand and operationalise the new Redemption Hospital site in Caldwell and strengthen health-service delivery.
Liberia established a national COVID-19 coordination structure and secured emergency World Bank financing in 2020 to strengthen outbreak response, laboratories, case management and support for health workers and affected families.
On 24 October 2018, President Weah announced tuition-free undergraduate study at the University of Liberia and other public universities in Liberia.
The Weah administration assumed payment of WASSCE examination fees for eligible students as part of an early education intervention.
