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Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf

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


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Ups and downs in palm oil

In late March President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was in Jakarta on the first official visit by a Liberian head of state since diplomatic relations were established in 1965...


Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

In Liberia Yudhoyono co-chaired with Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron a United Nations High-Level Panel on Post-2015 which discussed how to replace the UN Millennium Development Goals when they expire in 2015...


Farmers take on agribusiness

At the root of the conflict is the leasing by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s government of huge tracts of land where hundreds of thousands of people were living on the basis that all undeeded land is public...


China Union angers locals and workers

At the time steel prices were plummeting and President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s government’s haste to sign the deal weakened its position at the negotiating table...


Abe backs business

Japan does not host as many high-level visits as China or India but Zambia’s President Michael Chilufya ‘King Cobra’ Sata and Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf were both in Tokyo in October...


China Union under fire in Bong County

In 2009 the government of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf awarded the licence to exploit the Bong Mine to a little known Chinese company (AAC Vol 2 No 4 A more perfect union and The born-again Bong mines)...


Soro clouds economic revival

Both President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and the United Nations Mission in Liberia have airily dismissed any suggestion that there is a problem on the long jungle border between the two countries and even if there is one it is not big and is being dealt with...


What price the Unity Party

The member of parliament and former Speaker Edwin Melvin Snowe has renewed the offensive against Robert Alvin Sirleaf Chairman of the National Oil Company of Liberia and President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf’s claimed nepotism (AC Vol 53 No 8 Keeping it in the family)...


Not out of the woods

This is far short of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s ideal of a force that is ‘properly trained equipped and incentivised’...


Obsequies and summitry

Most regional heads of state – Nigeria's Goodluck Jonathan Côte d'Ivoire's Alassane Dramane Ouattara Liberia's Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf Benin's Thomas Yayi Boni (who currently chairs the African Union) – will attend...


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