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Liberia’s former president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has spoken publicly for the first time about what she intends to use her time for as she settles into life after presidency.
The former Nobel Prize laureate and Africa’s first democratically elected woman president said she was going to continue with issues of women empowerment whiles advancing the cause of good governance across Africa.
“I will work with a small team of people to establish the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Center for Women and Development, designed to support women as agents of change, makers of peace, and drivers of progress,” she said at a ceremony in the Rwandan capital, Kigali.
The event was the leadership ceremony of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation which awarded her the $5m Mo Ibrahim Ibrahim Prize. Sirleaf in her address to participants at the 2018 Ibrahim Governance Weekend stressed on a range of topics from global, continental and local prospects and challenges.
She spoke at length about her “restless” journey in search of a route to serve her people which search she said led her to civil service and eventually to the office of the highest civil servant of Liberia for the past 13 years.
She reiterated the successes and challenges that she experienced and what lay ahead for the country she continuall
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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has been a relentless advocate for peace, democracy, and women’s empowerment. She continues her activism through the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Center for Women and Development.
Johnson Sirleaf was elected President of the Republic of Liberia in 2005 and became Africa’s first democratically elected female head of state. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 for her non-violent struggle for the safety and advancement of women's rights. In addition to her Nobel Prize, President Sirleaf is the recipient of numerous honours, including the Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership. Her global impact extends as she serves as a member of The Elders, a group of distinguished global leaders, and as a Health Workforce Ambassador for the World Health Organization.
She holds a Master’s in Public Administration (MPA) from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. She also earned a degree in accounting at Madison Business College in Wisconsin. Johnson Sirleaf has written widely on development and human rights issues. In 2008 she published her memoir, This Child Will Be Great.
Balancing her public life, she embraces roles as a farmer and takes pride in her family, being a devoted mother to four sons and a cher
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Former Liberian Chairperson Sirleaf bombshells Mo Ibrahim Prize
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