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ELLEN JOHNSON SIRLEAF

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and the Ibrahim Prize’s exceptional problem

Has the Ibrahim Prize set the bar too high for its own good?

  • Simon Allison
4 min read
Liberia’s Sirleaf throws hat into anti-gay controversy
ARAB SPRING

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.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
ELLEN JOHNSON SIRLEAF

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.

  • Fran Blandy
5 min read
Liberia’s Sirleaf ‘doesn’t have time to celebrate’
ELLEN JOHNSON SIRLEAF

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.

  • Fran Blandy
4 min read
ELLEN JOHNSON SIRLEAF

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.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read