Retired footballer George Weah has won the elections in Liberia and is about to become the country’s 25th president.
|The senator of
Montserrado County – once named Fifa World Player and winner of the
much-coveted Ballon d’Or – defeated his 73-year-old opponent Vice
President Joseph Boakai in a landslide victory in results announced in
Liberia on Wednesday morning.
Weah is set to replace
Africa’s first female head of state, economist and Nobel Peace Prize
winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and see the West African nation, founded
by freed American slaves, hand over power from one democratically
elected government to another.