R60m prize for Liberian leader

– Liberian former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Africa’s first elected female head of state, has won a $5 million (R60 million) Mo Ibrahim award, designed to improve African leadership.

Johnson Sirleaf, who handed over leadership of the war-scarred West African state last month to ex-international soccer star George Weah, is only the fifth person to win the 10-year-old award. – Reuters

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