On 19 July the day after voting 'armed robbers' killed Christine Davis a leading election worker for presidential runner-up Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf...
The surprise was not Charles Taylor's victory in the 18 July elections but the scale of it: he won over three-quarters of the votes; his nearest rival Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf won less than 10 per cent (AC Vol 38 No 13)...
Two frontrunners dominate the election campaign which started on 16 June: ex-Finance Minister and former United Nations Development Programme Africa Director Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and ex-warlord Charles Taylor...
The party's most popular and respected member though is Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf who works for the United Nations and is staying out of the race to leave the leadership of the alliance open...
Washington would look more kindly on an Alliance candidate such as Tipoteh Matthews or Wotorson; above all they would favour Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (UN Development Programme director and ex-Citibank Vice-President) to run...
Vol 37 No 10 |
- WORLD BANK
An extraordinary letter in August 1994 to the UNDP's Ellen Johnson Sirleaf from a senior Bank official laid the blame for poor relations between the Bank and UNDP over the ACBF at the door of a single hapless UNDP official...
