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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
(born 29 October 1938) is the 24th and current
President
of
Liberia
, in office since 2006. She served as Minister of Finance under President
William Tolbert
from 1979 until the 1980
coup d'état
, after which she left Liberia and held senior positions at various financial institutions. She placed second in the
1997 presidential election
won by
Charles Taylor
. She won the
2005 presidential election
and took office on 16 January 2006, and she was a successful candidate for
re-election in 2011
. Sirleaf is the first elected
female head of state
in Africa.
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