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...Liberia??s election commission announced yesterday that Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf will face former soccer star George Weah in a run-off election for the presidency...
...Mason fellow, Johnson-Sirleaf earned a Masters in Public Administration in 1971. She then served as Liberia??s finance minister, where she worked to stem corruption in the Liberian government, according to Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy Robert I. Rotberg. Johnson-Sirleaf later became a senior loan officer at the World Bank, and directed the Africa Bureau of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP...
Taylor first rose to power as a warlord during Liberia??s bloody civil war in the 1990s. After the war ended in 1996, he defeated Johnson-Sirleaf to become president. He was elected with the campaign slogan, “He killed my ma, he killed my pa. I’ll vote...
...spite of Liberia??s poor infrastructure, the fairness of the elections was praised by international observers...
...events and an absurd hallucination, with Johnson portraying the Africa of Liberia not so much as the Dark Continent as another planet. Menacingly titled “The Small Boys’ Unit,” Johnson writes of trying to reach and interview Charles Taylor, one of Liberia??s leaders. He gets stuck on buses that sometimes decide not to go anywhere. He gets his passport only mistakenly stamped, and nearly sends his guide to jail by accident. He is arrested countless times, at least once without realizing he is under arrest for several days...