Because of insufficient fuel and dark runways, the airport manager was fired.
The Daily Observer, Liberia's oldest independent newspaper, quotes a press statement from Conex Energy, the country's jet fuel supplier, as saying that "there is a [jet] fuel shortage in the region" due to the Russia-Ukraine crisis.
Boakyewaa Lawrencia 
After multiple incoming flights were forced to land in neighboring Sierra Leone due to dark runways caused by power outages, Liberia's president fired the head of the country's only international airport.
Darlington Karnley, an aviation electronic technical specialist manager with American aircraft maker Boeing, will be the new airport manager, according to a presidential press statement.
It's unclear when he'll start working at the Roberts International Airport, 45 kilometers (28 miles) south of Monrovia, but detractors say the problems there are largely administrative.
The change in leadership comes as the airport struggles with aircraft fuel shortages.
The Daily Observer, Liberia's oldest independent newspaper, quotes a press statement from Conex Energy, the country's jet fuel supplier, saying that "there is a [jet] fuel shortage in the region" due to the Russia-Ukraine crisis.
The next jet fuel vessel to Liberia is due around May 17, according to Conex Energy.
The country's hydroelectric facility was rebuilt by the former government of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf after it was devastated by the horrific civil conflicts, but electricity transmission and distribution have remained a concern nearly 20 years later.
