Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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  Sirleaf Wins Prestigious Ibrahim Prize For African Leadership

  Former Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Monday won the rarely awarded Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership the world's biggest individual prize.

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  India's Ties With Liberia to Strengthen: President Pranab Mukherjee

  President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday said India's ties with the western African nation of Liberia will "continue to strengthen" in the coming years.

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  Ebola-Hit Liberia No Longer America's Forgotten Stepchild

  As Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf visits the US Senate today to thank Americans for their pivotal role in the Ebola recovery, she will reflect on a sometimes fractious relationship spanning two centuries.

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  Barack Obama to Meet Liberian President on Ebola Recovery

  President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Ebola-ravaged Liberia will visit the White House on February 27, as her recovering nation embarks on an ambitious goal of reducing infections to zero.

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  Ebola-Hit Liberia Delays School Re-Opening

  Liberia's Education Ministry said today that it had postponed by two weeks the reopening of the country's schools, which were closed six months ago to limit the spread of the Ebola virus.

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  Ex-Football Star Takes Lead in Liberian Senate Race

  Former soccer star George Weah held a commanding lead over the President's son in the most high-profile contest of Liberia's Senate poll, which was delayed twice because of Ebola.

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  Ebola Scare: Liberian President's Son Wants Rally Ban Lifted

  Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's son, who is running for a Senate seat, has filed a lawsuit contesting her Ebola-related ban on political rallies, an official said today.

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  Liberia Sets National Target of No New Ebola Cases by Decermber 25

  Liberia has set a national goal of having no new cases of Ebola by December 25, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said in a radio address on Sunday, in a further sign that authorities believe they are getting on top of the virus.

• Liberia Punishes Soldiers Involved in Ebola Quarantine Violence

  Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has ordered four soldiers and their commanding officer to be punished for their actions during a protest over an Ebola quarantine in August, a government statement said.

• Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Describes Heavy Cost of Ebola

  Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says Ebola has killed more than 2,000 people in her country and has brought it to "a standstill," noting that Liberia and two other badly hit countries were already weakened by years of war.

• Liberian President Asks 'World' to Pitch in to Fight Ebola

  Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf made an impassioned appeal to the world's nations to pitch in to the fight against Ebola, saying the "time for talking or theorising is over."

• Liberia Leader Seeks More Power to Fight Ebola

  Liberian lawmakers debated on Friday whether to grant President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf more power to restrict movement and public gatherings in the fight against Ebola as one parliamentarian warned that the country could turn into a "police state."

• Liberia Dismisses 10 Officials for Abandoning Ebola Fight

  Liberia's leader Sunday said she had sacked 10 senior government officials who defied an order to return to the west African nation to lead the fight against the deadly Ebola outbreak.

• Liberian President Appeals to Barack Obama for US Help to Beat Ebola

  Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has appealed to U.S. President Barack Obama for urgent aid in tackling the worst recorded outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus, saying that without it her country would lose the fight against the disease.

• Ebola Outbreak Stirs Anger in Fragile Liberia

  When a starving Ebola patient escaped from a treatment centre in Monrovia and staggered through a crowded market in search of food, bystanders who scattered in his path voiced their anger not at him but at Liberia's president.