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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and the Ibrahim Prize’s exceptional problem
Has the Ibrahim Prize set the bar too high for its own good?
Johnson-Sirleaf wants more female world leaders
Liberia’s President and Africa’s first female head of state, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, has said that she was eager to see a woman in the White House.
Liberia’s women still stalked by rape
Despite boasting Africa’s first female president and a Nobel prize for women’s rights, Liberia’s women are still vulnerable to the threat of rape.
Nobel power marks feverish end of Liberia campaigning
Liberia buzzed with election fever as Nobel laureates, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and women’s activist Leymah Gbowee took to the streets.
Liberian, Yemeni women activists share peace prize
Three women who have campaigned for rights and an end to violence in Liberia and Yemen, including Liberia’s president, have won the Nobel Peace Prize.