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Fri 02 Feb 2009War-weary nation has pinned hopes on 'technocrat who happens to be a woman'
Since coming to power in 2006, Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has been trying to transform a country ravaged by civil war, writes SUSAN McKAY
THERE IS a huge billboard on the junction just outside Liberia’s department of foreign affairs on the Atlantic seafront in the capital, Monrovia. “Liberia shall rise again,” it says, over a smiling photograph of president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
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