Early on he set up the first of several special committees to investigate allegations of official corruption including against people who worked in the previous administration of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf...

Another is Finance Minister Samuel Tweah 51 a United States-trained economist and formerly a consultant to President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf's government (AC Vol 58 No 21 Weah sprints towards an open goal)...

There has been some discussion of trying to revive an AU committee set up by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in November last year consisting of Joaquim Chissano Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Kgalema Motlanthe – former presidents of Mozambique Liberia and South Africa respectively – to facilitate negotiations between the parties...

A year ago Abiy ignored the advice of the AU's delegation of three former presidents – Mozambique's Joaquim Chissano South Africa's Kgalema Motlanthe and Liberia's Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf – to negotiate with Tigray's leaders...

Biden's announcement came just before publication of the report of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response chaired by Liberia's former president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Helen Clark former Prime Minister of New Zealand...

It had a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) however which recommended in 2009 that dozens of former combatants and politicians be prosecuted and that ex-President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf be barred from public office (AC Vol 50 No 14 No reconciliation little truth)...

The prospect of a more level international playing field was presented to the health ministers conference by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Liberia's ex-President...

Inflation stands at around 26% and prices of petrol and rice are soaring – something that his predecessor the Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf kept firmly under control (AC Vol 61 No 5 George Weah at bay)...