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...SIRLEAF PRESIDENCY BE DIFFERENT? AFTER NEARLY 14 YEARS OF CIVIL WAR, UNEMPLOYMENT IS AT 80% AND MANY STILL LIVE IN REFUGEE CAMPS. I'm going to have a rigorous reform agenda in which we will introduce the structural change our country has lacked for so long. The renewal of Liberia means a new political order, a new social order, a new economic order. It involves far-reaching reforms--constitutional reform, land reform, judicial reform, civil service reform and decentralization of power...
...former World Bank economist who once waited tables to put herself through Harvard, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, 67, was officially declared the winner last week of a presidential runoff in her native Liberia. She spoke to Claire Soares about her plans to heal the war-torn country--where the rate of unemployment is 80%--and how she earned the epithet Iron Lady...
...whatever I do and say, how well I am able to move the Liberian development agenda, how I am able to promote peace and reconciliation. I'll have a lot of detractors who want to see me fail, not only because of my long years of political activism in Liberia but because they aren't really convinced that women can be leaders...
...CIVIL WAR HAS LEFT LIBERIA DEEPLY DIVIDED. WHOM WILL YOU APPOINT TO YOUR GOVERNMENT TO HELP HEAL THE WOUNDS? We will look at every political party, ethnic group and religion, and find people who meet our requirements of competence and honesty. Certainly we're open to discussing with Mr. Weah what role he might play...
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, 67, waited tables to put herself through Harvard, then went on to work as an economist at the World Bank. Now, after a fiercely fought election in her native Liberia, she is set to be sworn in as Africa's first elected female head of state. Johnson-Sirleaf spoke to Claire Soares in Monrovia last week about leadership, healing the country, and childhood dreams. you're the first woman elected to head an african country. What does that mean to you? It means that I have a great responsibility to meet the expectations of Liberian and African...