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Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf

Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (C) makes a speech beside Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) and advisor for Japanese Foreign Ministry Sadako Ogata (R) during a symposium on human security at the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) in Yokohama, suburban Tokyo, on June 2, 2013. Japan said on June 2 it would give one billion USD in aid to help stabilise the Islamist-infested Sahel region of Africa, months after the deaths of 10 Japanese in a hostage crisis there.

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About Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (born 29 October 1938) is the current President of Liberia. She served as Minister of Finance under President William Tolbert from 1979 until the 1980 coup d'état, after which she left Liberia and held senior positions at various financial institutions. She placed a distant second in the 1997 presidential election. Later, she was elected President in the 2005 presidential election and took office on 16 January 2006.

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