Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (born 29 October 1938) is the current President of Liberia. She served as Minister of Finance under President William Tolbert from 1979 until the 1980 coup d'état, after which she left Liberia and held senior positions at various financial institutions. She placed a distant second in the 1997 presidential election. Later, she was elected President in the 2005 presidential election and took office on 16 January 2006. Read more at Wikipedia


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Liberia Pledges Continued Partnership With APM Terminal, New Wharf Dedicated

...Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has dedicated the new marginal wharf at the National Port Authority with a promise that government's partnership with the APM Terminal will continue. The APM Terminal is an American based company that signed a concession agreement with...

Assets Declaration Fallout in Liberia - NPA MD Parker, LACC Spar Over a 'Lie'

...The report issued by the Liberia Anti Corruption Commission (LACC) that some officials of the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf-led government misrepresented the facts and lied in their declaration of assets with the commission has hit high notes in Liberia. The LACC...

Angela Merkel is Forbes' top woman again

...than $82bn, according to Forbes. Among the world's most powerful women are Africa's first female head of state, Liberia's Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first woman chief executive of at IBM, Ginni Rometty, and the first president of an Ivy League and of the Rockefeller...

The Optimist’s Case for Yemen - By Jeff Gedmin

...Peace Prize at age 32 in 2011, she was the youngest person ever to do so. (She was a co-recipient with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee). Karman is only the second Muslim woman to have won the prestigious award....

Liberia journalists lift blackout on presidency

...but have rather been in the frontline of fighting for social justice, peace and democracy,” he observed. “President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and some of her officials are beneficiaries of our advocacy, and we will not waiver on that mandate.” The lifting of the...

The World’s Most Powerful Women 2013

...1. She’s the first: Forty percent of the women on the list are “female firsts,” such as African head of state (Liberia’s Ellen Johnson Sirleaf), billionaire to sign The Giving Pledge (Sara Blakeley), and CEO at IBM (Ginni Rometty). Even more impressive are...

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NEWSMAKER: Liberia must become a manufacturing economy

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NEWSMAKER: Liberia will reform land ownership law, education

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NEWSMAKER: Liberian stability will bring foreign investment

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, and Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, left, meet with Chief of Police Marc Armblah at the police academy in Monrovia, Liberia Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009 - Published on 2013-05-20 17:40:00 by U.S. News & World Report

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, and Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, left, meet with Chief of Police Marc Armblah at the police academy in Monrovia, Liberia Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009

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 U.S. Ambassador Deborah Malac and President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - Published on 2013-04-25 14:43:00 by West Africa Democracy Radio

U.S. Ambassador Deborah Malac and President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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We signed the agreement because the country was in a dangerous situation for the pier that could fall anytime which could have caused our economy to come to a halt...

in Liberia Pledges Continued Partnership With APM Terminal, New Wharf Dedicated
AllAfrica.com - 2013-05-23 10:05:00

We're going to try to become that middle-income country by 2030; it's going to take a lot of effort on our part, but we'll give it our best shot. And if you're there with us, chances are we might just make it, and we can all look back, twenty years from now, and say Liberia's success is America's success...

in 'Liberia's Success Will Be America's Success'
AllAfrica.com - 2013-05-21 11:39:00

It is better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with lie...

in Media Organizations and Hon. Warrick's Statements - a Critical Perspective On the Matter
AllAfrica.com - 2013-05-20 10:47:00

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