JOSEPH Boakai was sworn in as Liberia’s 26th president on 22 January 2024. Boakai secured a six-year term of office after defeating incumbent president George Weah in a keenly contested November 2023 poll with 50.9% of the votes cast. The West African country of 5 million people reached a major milestone on 17 November 2023, when Weah, of the Congress for Democratic Change, conceded defeat to the Unity Party candidate. CHARLES WRATTO, Associate Professor of Peace, Politics, and Conflict Studies, Babes Bolyai University Weah scored 49.1% of votes cast and lost the tight presidential run-off, which the EU described as…