‘We have learned to live with our neighbours’: Liberia’s President Joseph Boakai

A month after Guinea deployed troops to its border with Liberia, President Joseph Boakai claimed to be in touch with his Guinean counterpart Mamady Doumbouya, in an interview with FRANCE 24. « We’ve been speaking very well, » Boakai said, adding that he told Doumbouya the border situation is « getting under control ». Asked about the state of democracy in West Africa, Boakai stated that Liberia has « learned that war is not the way to go ». « We have learned to live with our neighbours. And we are doing everything possible to show them that we are avoiding conflict. »