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Liberia

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf

Date of Birth: 29 October 1938
Place of Birth: Monrovia


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Heroes and villains

President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf came to office in 2006 pledging a 'war against corruption as public enemy number one' but admitted recently that she had done little to curb it...


Taylor tries to sway vote

A scramble to replace Africa's first elected female president Nobel Prize winner Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf at elections in October has led to strange alliances and the intervention of Charles Taylor from the prison in Britain where he is serving a 50-year sentence for crimes against humanity (see Feature Taylor calls politicians from prison)...


Taylor calls politicians from prison

He claims that he is there because he was betrayed by President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf the outgoing head of state...

Globally-respected President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is stepping down this year after serving two terms of office...


New order tackles old debts

Three days earlier Akufo-Addo will host at his inauguration a clutch of African leaders including Nigeria's Muhammadu Buhari Côte d'Ivoire's Alassane Dramane Ouattara Liberia's Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Ethiopia's Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn who is on an extended trip to Ghana...


Jammeh feels the heat

The delegation – Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf Muhammadu Buhari Ernest Bai Koroma and John Dramani Mahama – met last Saturday to give wider feedback to their colleagues in Abuja...


Gambia at the cliff-edge

He avoided Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf head of Ecowas by ordering air traffic control to deny her aeroplane permission to land...


Ellen's followers

As President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf approaches the end of her final term scandal and defections hang over her Unity Party which twice carried her into the country's top job...


Sable bribery repercussions

President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has launched a Presidential Task Force to investigate the claims and called on British Prime Minister David Cameron to help (AC Vol 57 No 10 Sable's rich seam of bribes)...


Death on the beach

A fundraiser for the Association for Constitutional Democracy in Liberia and an economic advisor to Charles Gyude Bryant's transitional government of 2003-05 after the civil war Greaves had a longstanding association with President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf...


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