(MONROVIA, LIBERIA – Tuesday, December 31, 2013) President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has described 2014 as a year of development and hard work for all, urging Liberians to embrace the New Year as one people in undertaking the development task.

Season’s Greetings, my fellow Liberians:

Time marches on: One year ends, and a New Year, a new beginning, is quickly upon us. Many of our loved ones are no longer with us, and we miss them dearly. May their souls rest in perpetual peace. Let those of us, who are privileged to witness the dawning of a New Year, give praise and thanks to the Almighty for his many blessings bestowed upon us as a nation and a people.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf became Africa's first female president in 2005, two years after the end of a brutal 14-year conflict.

She was re-elected in November 2011 in a poll marred by a low turn-out and a boycott by her main rival.

Winston Tubman pulled out of the second round of the presidential race, saying the vote had been rigged. He said he would not cooperate with Ms Johnson-Sirleaf's government, raising the prospect that her initiatives could be slowed in a hung parliament where her Unity Party failed to win a majority.

(MONROVIA LIBERIA – Tuesday, April 7, 2015) As Government works to achieve its goals over the remaining years of the administration, there is need for strategic changes in the administration.