Liberia’s Johnson Sirleaf wins $5 million African leadership prize
By Reuters
12 February 2018 |
12:43 pm
Former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Africa's first elected female head of state, has won a $5 million Mo Ibrahim award, designed to improve the quality of African political leadership.
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