Liberia: Boakai Forms High-Level Task Force As U.S. Travel Ban Looms

MONROVIA – With a 60-day clock already ticking on a potential U.S. travel ban, President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has created an inter-agency Presidential Task Force charged with delivering the swift, documented reforms Washington insists must be in place if Liberians are to keep ordinary access to American visas.

The Task Force, which Mr Boakai will chair personally, held its inaugural meeting at the Executive Mansion on Tuesday, 17 June. Foreign Minister Sara Beysolow Nyanti serves as co-chair…