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Yet many of the same problems had emerged under the presidency of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf when Boakai was her vice-president...
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Vol 64 No 24 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Founded by veteran lobbyist Riva Levinson KRL has previously advised the UNITA party in Angola the New Patriotic Party in Ghana Kosmos Oil company former Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Malawi's Joyce Banda...
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Dirty handsFoya is the home town of Weah's principal adversary the Unity Party's 78-year-old Boakai former Vice-President under Ellen Johnson Sirleaf...
Former President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf faced similar criticism when she did the same in 2007...
Johnson's party played an instrumental role in providing votes that helped ensure the victory of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Weah in the past...
Early on he set up the first of several special committees to investigate allegations of official corruption including against people who worked in the previous administration of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf...
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In the meantime KRL the lobbying firm favoured by his predecessor Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is no longer Liberia's main political consultant but remains on the payroll...
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Another is Finance Minister Samuel Tweah 51 a United States-trained economist and formerly a consultant to President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf's government (AC Vol 58 No 21 Weah sprints towards an open goal)...
There has been some discussion of trying to revive an AU committee set up by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in November last year consisting of Joaquim Chissano Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Kgalema Motlanthe – former presidents of Mozambique Liberia and South Africa respectively – to facilitate negotiations between the parties...
A year ago Abiy ignored the advice of the AU's delegation of three former presidents – Mozambique's Joaquim Chissano South Africa's Kgalema Motlanthe and Liberia's Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf – to negotiate with Tigray's leaders...
Biden's announcement came just before publication of the report of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response chaired by Liberia's former president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Helen Clark former Prime Minister of New Zealand...