The progress we’ve made at home. For example, our debt issue. We inherited a 3.7 billion debt for our population and our export earnings. Today a majority of that debt has been cancelled and we’ve completed our first program with the IMF (International Monetary Fund). And also the restoration of hope. Today, you know, our image of being a pariah state, a failed state, has turned around completely. Whereas people — Liberians — were afraid to carry a Liberian passport, because you’d be seen as this nation of death and destruction. Today, Liberians are very proud to carry their passport because everybody sees Liberia as beginning to be uplifted and beginning to become a possible model of success, a post-conflict success story. I’m very proud of that turnaround in our image.
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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
President of Liberia, 2006–2018
Liberia · b. 1938
Politics and public life
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Served as President of Liberia from 2006 to 2018, the first woman elected head of state in Africa. Previously worked at the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme, and was imprisoned in Liberia in the 1980s. Shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011.
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