In cabinet

Antoinette Sayeh, Minister of Finance: economist, ran World Bank programme in Benin, securing debt relief under Heavily Indebted Poor Countries scheme. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf hopes to do the same for Liberia, with external debt at US$3.5 billion. Western governments are pleased as the appointment signals competence...

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Antoinette Sayeh, , Benin, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Brownie J. Samukai, Israel, United States, Amos Sawyer, East Timor, Samuel Kofi Woods, George Weah, Sierra Leone, Walter Gwenigale, Charles Taylor, Joseph Korto, Willis Knuckles, Benoni Urey, Varbah Gayflor, Morris Dukuly, Kromah, Eugene Shannon, Côte d'Ivoire, Tunisia, John Morlu, Richard Tolbert, William Tolbert

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