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Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf

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    president defended a law criminalizing gay acts.In an interview with Britain 's Guardian newspaper, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was reported to have said, "We've got certain traditional values in our society that we would like to preserve."Administration   Read more »

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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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