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...They are ready, they’re willing.” Having a staunch ally in Africa is reassuring for Washington, say western diplomats in Nairobi, at a time when US troops are pulling out of Niger and Chad....
...The decision was seen as a vote of confidence in Mr Adesina, 60, who is still planning to seek re-election for a second term in a contest that has been rescheduled for August because of the coronavirus pandemic...
...“The world is not protesting that Xi Jinping is locking up 1m Uighurs,” he says of the re-education camps that sprang up in western China in 2017. “Nobody holds China to that kind of standard.”...
...Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a former Liberian president heading the mission, said: “The longer results are being delayed . . . the more questions will be raised and concerns will deepen.”...
...Taylor driven into exile 2005 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf elected president after UN interim rule 2011 Sirleaf wins Nobel Peace Prize and is re-elected president 2014 Country hit by worst outbreak of Ebola...
...Mrs Sirleaf, a former World Bank official, has been praised for bringing stability, rebuilding roads and power transmission and for re-establishing Liberia’s international links....
...Liberian legacy: As Ellen Johnson Sirleaf prepares to hand over power after 12 years in office, David Pilling looks at the legacy of the Liberian president....
...by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf....
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...Led by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberia’s president and chairwoman of the 15-nation Economic Community of west African States bloc, the delegation also included John Mahama, who lost his bid for re-election...
...“We don’t want any more trouble in our country,” he adds. “If anybody thinks that we will have anything less than a free, fair and transparent election, they’re joking.”...
...We’re in Liberia, the west African country founded by emancipated slaves from America....
...Following elections next year in Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf will step down as president after serving two terms that have drawn a line under the country’s terrible civil war....
...But the more important, longer-term, task is to re-engineer the economy so that it becomes more resilient to shocks like these in the future....
...In an interview, President Sirleaf said the opposition was engaged in “politicking” and rumour-mongering as they jostled ahead of the election....
...Increasingly, donors conduct a detailed analysis of whole organisations before deciding whether to support them, and once they’re in, they’re in....
...“In this country of mine that I love,” she goes on, sliding to a halt on the word “love”, “people think that you’re incomplete unless you’re married.”...
...I draw inspiration from Ellen Sirleaf Johnson, president of Liberia....
...“These made them sit up and re-think their whole budgetary management as well as other aspects of macro management.”...
...Yet look beyond the numbers and there is the sense that all is not quite so rosy for Mrs Johnson Sirleaf, who was re-elected last year. Call it the seven-year itch....
...In 2006, as the country’s best known civil society activist with no political allegiances, he agreed to join the government of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as minister of labour....
...We’re in a region where many of our neighbouring states are in a fragile situation that will not be fully resolved until our economies have growth to provide jobs and basic needs and reduce the level of...
...Mrs Sirleaf won re-election to a second term last month in polls generally described by observers as free and fair, though claims of foul play by the opposition denied the government the legitimacy of an...
...A Harvard-educated economist and former banker revered by foreign donors, she was re-elected to a second six-year term this month in a poll the UN described as free, fair and transparent....
...Mrs Sirleaf, who is of indigenous descent but lighter-skinned than most Liberians because of a German grandfather, recalls feeling in danger at times in the country’s turbulent recent history when she was...
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