Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf

Many are grateful for the peace for which they thank the United Nations' 12 800-strong peacekeeping operation but they see little difference between the greedy Americo-Liberian elites (who ran the country under President Charles Taylor and former Chairman of the National Transitional Government Charles Gyude Bryant) and the ones in charge now under President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf...

Life in Liberia is gradually improving President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf told the United Nations' General Assembly to some applause on 23 September...

On election President Ernest Bai Koroma gave himself three years to turn Sierra Leone around but the first year has been unimpressive and the smart performance of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's government in Liberia makes its neighbour look flat-footed...

Exploration in Liberia is moving slowly as President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf's government sorts out exploration contracts awarded by the transitional government under Charles Gyude Bryant who is under investigation for corruption (AC Vol 48 No 16)...

President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf says that making sense of Liberia's commercial debt is complex because 'some of it [commercial debt] is bogus some of it we don't know what this was used for...

Liberia: The once and future neocolony Liberia was founded by American philanthropists and Harvard-educated President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is one of George Bush's best African friends...

Liberia's President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf publicly invited the US military to set up in Monrovia...

Both governments have in place impressive teams of technical specialists under Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Sierra Leone’s newly-elected Ernest Bai Koroma with plans for regional development cooperation...

In Liberia President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf pushed through mains electricity for Monrovia to convince people that her government intended real change...

So does President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf’s reforming government in Liberia much to the embarrassment of the IMF which was trying to improvise a way of speeding up debt relief for Monrovia through a series of complex paper transactions...