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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

A photo of a bin of used syringes inside a trailer.

Pandemic report: ‘We are not short on recommendations. We are short on action.’

COVID-19

Dr. Joanne Liu, a member of the Independent Panel for Pandemic and Preparedness Response, discusses the new pandemic report and recommendations on preparedness.

Ellen Sirleaf wears a grey headwrap and robe as she speaks to a man in a blue suit.

Liberia’s Ellen Sirleaf: Women’s icon with nerves of steel

Global Politics
People wait to vote during the presidential election at a polling station of Duport Road in Monrovia, Liberia, Oct. 10, 2017.

Former warlords are among the Liberians vying to be the next head of state

Global Politics

Tawakul Karman set to receive Nobel Peace Prize

Liberia reacts to President’s Nobel Peace Prize

Will Nobel Prize winner lose Liberian election?

Despite winning this year’s Nobel Prize, incumbent President Ellen Johnson may not win Liberia’s upcoming election.

2011 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to women activists

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, also of Liberia, and Tawakul Karman of Yemen are the first women to win the Nobel Peace Prize since 2004.

The World

‘A Better World for Mothers’: Leading African Women Contemplate the New Year

Health & Medicine

“A better world for mothers, daughters, sisters and wives.” Here are some thoughts on the coming year from four leading African women, including the Presidents of Malawi and Liberia.

The World

Female Circumcision Temporarily Stopped in Liberia

Conflict & Justice

In Liberia, female traditional leaders who operate powerful secret societies have agreed to shut down “schools” where teenage girls undergo genital circumcision.

TED Talks: Nobel-Laureate Leymah Gbowee on Peace in Liberia, and the World

Leymah Gbowee, a speaker at TED2012, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 for her pivotal role with Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace, the women’s peace movement that, in 2003, helped end the four-year-long Second Liberian Civil War. She shared the award with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first female president of Liberia. In […]