Republic of Liberia

Independent since 1847, Liberia was one of the first countries on the African continent to establish diplomatic relations with Brazil in the 19th century. The first bilateral agreement was signed in 1925 and, in the following years, trade contacts between the two countries were predominnat in  the bilateral relationship. Brazil sent trade missions to that country in 1965, 1973 and 1977.

With the end of the civil war in Liberia (2003), the process of bilateral rapprochement intensified. The two countries signed a Technical Cooperation Framework Agreement in 2009 and six other bilateral agreements in 2010. In the context of the Ebola virus crisis, in 2014, the Brazilian government made a financial donation to the UN in addition to kits with medicines and medical supplies to fight the epidemic and assist the populations in Guinea-Conakry, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.

The Embassy of Brazil in Monrovia was opened in 2011 and its functions were discontinued in 2019, when the Embassy of Brazil in Accra became cumulatively resposnible for overseeing relations with the Liberian government.

Chronology of bilateral relations

2019 – The Embassy of Brazil in Accra (Ghana) becomes cumulatively resposible for representing Brazilian interests  before Liberia

2014 – The Brazilian Government makes a financial donation to UN agencies to combat the Ebola virus and assist the populations in Guinea-Conakry, Liberia and Sierra Leone

2012 – The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Liberia, Augustine Ngafuan, visits Brazil on the occasion of the Annual High Level Conference of the Open Government Partnership; visit of the Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Affairs of Liberia, Amara Konneh, to attend the Rio+20 Conference

2011 – Opening of the Embassy of Brazil in Monrovia (it functioned until 2019)

2010 – The President of the Republic of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, visits Brazil when six bilateral agreements are signed (April). The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Liberia, Olubanke Akerele, visits Brazil (February)

2009 – Signing of the Technical Cooperation Framework Agreement

1978 – Establishment of the Embassy of Brazil to the Liberian government, based in Abidjan

1977 – Liberian Minister of Industry and Trade, William Dennis, visits Brazil heading an economic mission. On the occasion, a commercial agreement is signed

1925 – Signing of the Treaty for the Peaceful Settlement of Disputes, the first agreement between the two countries