As the veteran opposition leader Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf the main opposition candidate in the 1977 presidential election returned to Monrovia on 29 April Taylor banned all public meetings even funerals and party political activities...
Vol 43 No 4 |
- WEST AFRICA
A favourite replacement is Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf a former UN Development Programme Africa Director once favoured by the United States who was runner-up in the July 1997 election...
Masire had assembled an impressive team of commissioners to lead the negotiations in Addis: Senegal's Moustapha Niasse (constitutional reform); Mauritania's Ahmed Ould Abdallah (elections); Liberia's Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Gambia's Bakary Dabo (development); Nigeria's General Abdulsalami Abubakar and Babagana Kingibe (military reform); Benin's Albert Téoédjrè (reconciliation)...
Last week Taylor announced an amnesty for exiled opposition politicians and his presidential rival Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is returning to Monrovia to challenge him in the 2003 elections...
The most credible opposition party is Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's United Party whose supporters are hounded and whose candidate in the Buchanan senatorial by-election last November was rigged out of the contest...
One witness attempted to implicate Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of the United People’s Party Taylor’s main electoral opponent in 1997 and former Director of the United Nations Development Programme’s Africa Division; however when Johnson-Sirleaf protested the accusation was withdrawn...
Ellen Sirleaf-Johnson runner-up to Taylor in the presidential race has toured the country and fulfilled some election pledges by handing out funds and equipment to schools and rehabilitation centres...
On 19 July the day after voting 'armed robbers' killed Christine Davis a leading election worker for presidential runner-up Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf...
The surprise was not Charles Taylor's victory in the 18 July elections but the scale of it: he won over three-quarters of the votes; his nearest rival Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf won less than 10 per cent (AC Vol 38 No 13)...
Two frontrunners dominate the election campaign which started on 16 June: ex-Finance Minister and former United Nations Development Programme Africa Director Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and ex-warlord Charles Taylor...