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AllAfrica.com
March 5, 2018
President George Manneh Weah has officially dedicated the 11th Judicial Circuit Court in Tubmanburg, Bomi County. Joined by former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf during the dedicatory ceremony, President Weah called on judicial actors to ensure justice is dispensed fairly irrespective of gender, creedÃâà...
Global News Network
February 23, 2018
While Tubman used hard power to consolidate his rule, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf used soft power to maintain her grip on power and manipulated the election for her preferred candidate in George M. Weah. She effectively used her poster boy at the National Elections Commission in (NEC) Jerome Kokoyah toÃâà...
International Politics and Society
February 19, 2018
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who until the end of January served as Liberia's president, last week won the 2017 Mo Ibrahim Prize for achievement in African Leadership. The prize is given to an ex-African head of state who leaves office voluntarily at the end of their constitutional tenure. By virtue of being aÃâà...
Amsterdam News
February 16, 2018
Liberia's Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has captured the Ibrahim Prize for distinguished African leadership. She is the fifth recipient of the prize since it was first presented in 2007. Johnson Sirleaf, who stepped down last month, was praised for her work rebuilding the nation after civil war and leading a process ofÃâà...
Brookings Institution (blog)
February 16, 2018
The pressure for a change in leadership had been increasing sharply since December, culminating Wednesday evening, when the ANC demanded Zuma step down or face a no-confidence vote on Thursday. Then, Zuma, after hours of waiting and uncertainty, officially resigned. Zuma had barely survivedÃâà...
Global News Network
February 15, 2018
Former Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf won the coveted Mo Ibrahim prize for African leadership — a nice nest egg of US$5m paid out over 10 years and then $200,000/year for the rest of the winner's life. It is only the fifth time the prize has been awarded since its launch in 2006. Sirleaf, Africa's firstÃâà...
Daily Maverick
February 14, 2018
Finally, after a three-year drought, the Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership has a winner: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa's first-ever female head of state and, until recently, the president of Liberia. “Ellen Johnson Sirleaf took the helm of Liberia when it was completely destroyed by civil war andÃâà...
Institute for Security Studies
February 13, 2018
'There is a stark difference between how Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is perceived by Liberians and by the international community. The international community has a way in which they uphold her, as Africa's first female president, who led the country out of civil war. But when you talk to Liberians, they are a lotÃâà...
New York Times
February 12, 2018
MONROVIA, Liberia — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first woman democratically elected as a head of state in Africa, was awarded the $5 million Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership on Monday for “transformative leadership” in the aftermath of Liberia's civil war. Ms. Johnson Sirleaf governedÃâà...
