Liberia : Meet The Multi-millionaire Who Wants To Be President Of Liberia replacing Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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In the Spirit of Sankofa,


Meet The Multi-millionaire Who Wants To Be President Of Liberia


On the 10th of October, Liberians will go to the polls to vote for their next president. Incumbent Ellen Johnson Sirleaf shall step down having reached the constitutional two-term limit.

Benoni Urey is one of the leading contenders. He recently accepted the Presidential nomination of the All-Liberian Party to contest at the ballot box; Urey has not held elected office before, but believes his business background will appeal to many voters across the political spectrum ...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mfonob...ants-to-be-president-of-liberia/#77e923826f8b


Dr. Benoni Urey





Mfonobong Nsehe , CONTRIBUTOR
I chronicle Africa's success stories and track its richest people
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After Sirleaf, What Kind of Change Does Liberia Need?


Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf waves following a meeting with ECOWAS delegates, Banjul, Gambia, Dec. 13, 2016 (AP photo by Sylvain Cherkaoui)


http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/...sirleaf-what-kind-of-change-does-liberia-need

After Sirleaf, What Kind of Change Does Liberia Need?

In the campaign to replace Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Vice President Joseph Boakai faces attempts by opponents to tar him with the incumbent’s shortcomings. Yet he is offering himself up as a change-maker—a gambit that...

worldpoliticsreview.com

Robbie Corey-Boulet

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Liberian women hold mass fast for peaceful elections

Jennifer O'MAHONY
AFP

https://www.yahoo.com/news/liberian-women-hold-mass-fast-peaceful-elections-014224973.html

Liberian women hold mass fast for peaceful elections

Dressed in identical printed skirts, a hundred Liberian women knelt in prayer after another long day in three weeks of fasting, appealing once more that their country be spared of violence. Ahead of elections next Tuesday, women of all ages are...

yahoo.com

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Liberians choose new president as Sirleaf steps aside

Jennifer O'Mahony and Zoom Dosso

https://www.yahoo.com/news/liberians-choose-president-sirleaf-steps-aside-024243461.html

Liberians choose new president as Sirleaf steps aside

Liberians head to the polls on Tuesday to elect a successor to President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, with hopes for a leader who will kickstart the economy and safeguard a fragile peace. Sirleaf will step down after 12 years at the helm of Africa's...

yahoo.com

2011 Nobel winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Twenty candidates are vying to succeed Liberia's president, 2011 Nobel winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who is stepping down after 12 years at the helm (AFP Photo/NICHOLAS KAMM)


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The land of freed American slaves returned to Africa, where did it go wrong

The Tearing Down of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
The ghosts of Liberia’s civil war are stalking the country ahead of this week's election — and threatening the complicated legacy of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning president
BY PRUE CLARKE, MAE AZANGO

... Liberia seems to be racing backward instead of forward, and for that Sirleaf bears some of the blame, her critics say. In an interview with Foreign Policy in her modest office in Monrovia, the 78-year-old president seemed to share some of those critics’ disappointment in her tenure. “I underestimated the low level of capacity. I also underestimated the cultural roots of corruption,” she said. As a result, she admits that Liberia is not where she hoped it would be when she took office in 2006 ...

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/10/09/the-tearing-down-of-ellen-johnson-sirleaf-liberia-elections/

The Tearing Down of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

The ghosts of Liberia’s civil war are stalking the country ahead of this week's election — and threatening the complicated legacy of the Nobel Peace…

foreignpolicy.com

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Why Africa owes a debt of gratitude to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Chude Jideonwo, Special for CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/10/africa/africa-ellen-johnson-sirleaf-legacy/index.html

Why Africa owes a debt of gratitude to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

As Africa's first female president hands over power in Liberia, she leaves a legacy of uninterrupted peace and consolidated democracy, argues Chude Jideonwo.

cnn.com

Liberia Fast Facts

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A Black Trump huh? There may be hope for Liberia yet since like Trump he is a businessman and as such he has no political agenda wallowing in corruption like Sirleaf. I hope he runs Chevron out of Liberia but that may be a hard nut to crack since the Madam took hundreds of thousands in bribes to allow Chevron to unilaterally pick the most promising offshore oil tracts before even the African oil interest could put official bids in. If you're going to sell your soul and your own people out use your imagination and make it worth your while and not settle for pennies on the dollar making your confederates know you are as stupid as you look. Shame she didn't hold out for more, if you're gonna steal, steal big.

 

The soccer hero, Weah, is currently in the lead.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...y-lead-in-liberia-presidential-election-count

Weah Takes Early Lead in Liberia Presidential Election Count

Former A.C. Milan soccer star George Weah and Vice President Joseph Boakai lead in Liberia’s presidential election as the electoral commission released provisional results of the Oct. 10 vote.

bloomberg.com

 

I believe George Weah could turn Liberia around. He is much more astute then most people give him credit for, I hope he empties the existing cabinet out and chooses their replacements wisely. I also believe the Madam planned to have him assassinated during the 2005 runoff but he was and still is way too popular for the masses to stand for that and she would been on the receiving end of a violent bloodletting. Thanks for the update Clyde.

 

Not a problem Symbol of America, no, not at all, you are very welcome (yvw) ...

My hope is that one day, Liberia can be restored with governance, the extent to which, repatriation from America, for those that think like me, would be suitable. It would be a fittingly first stop.

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