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Trump, Boakai’nin Akıcı İngilizcesinden Etkileniyor ABD Başkanı Donald Trump, Liberya Devlet Başkanı Joseph Boakai’nin akıcı ve etkileyici İngilizce konuşmasından oldukça etkilendi. Toplantı sonrası gerçekleşen bu ilginç anlarda Trump, Boakai’nın konuşmasının ardından “Çok iyi İngilizce” şeklinde övgüde bulundu. Ardından, “Bunu nerede öğrendiniz? Eğitim aldınız mı? Hangi okuldan mezunsunuz?” diye…

#BBC: “Joseph Boakai félicite George Weah”

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Le candidat malheureux au second tour de la présidentielle au Libéria, Joseph Boakai, félicite George Weah, le président élu avec 61,5% des voix.

Mon amour pour le pays est plus profond que mon désir d’être président. C’est pourquoi, il y a peu, j’ai appelé George Weah pour le féliciter en tant que vainqueur du scrutin présidentiel

Joseph Boakai, Vice-président sortant du Liberia

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The Latest: Liberia declares George Weah president-elect

MONROVIA, Liberia/December 29,2017(AP)(STL.News)— The Latest on Liberia’s election (all times local): 6:00 p.m.

Liberia’s National Election Commission has declared George Weah president-elect and Jewel Howard-Taylor vice president-elect following a Dec. 26 runoff poll.

The commission says their party, the Coalition for Democratic Change, received 61.5 percent of the vote with 732,185 votes, beating Vice President Joseph Boakai’s Unity Party which got 457,579 or 38.5 percent of the votes. Immediately after NEC chairman Jerome Korkoya read the final results, Weah’s party headquarters erupted into celebration.

____ 4:30 p.m. Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated George Weah on his election as Liberia’s next president. Buhari issued a statement Friday that also commended the Liberian people “on the peaceful conduct of the historic presidential runoff election. ” He called Tuesday’s vote “another plus on Africa’s democratic scoreboard.”

Buhari says Nigeria is ready to work with Liberia on issues of mutual interest and called Weah’s victory “an affirmation of the will of the Liberian people to remain united, peaceful and prosperous.”

He also commended outgoing President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf for her work in transforming Liberia during her 12 years in office.

Liberia, a nation founded by freed American slaves, is seeing its first democratic transfer of power in more than 70 years as Sirleaf, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, steps down.

___ 3 p.m. Liberia’s president-elect and ex-soccer star George Weah says he is “honored to join a new generation of heads of state.”

In his first public comments since his rival conceded Friday, Weah tweeted in French in response to congratulations from French President Emmanuel Macron.

Weah adds that “we have a lot to do together to accelerate the building of tomorrow’s Africa.” The former FIFA World Player of the Year played with AS Monaco and Paris Saint-Germain, among others. He is set to take office in January.

___ 2 p.m. French President Emmanuel Macron has called Liberia’s president-elect George Weah to congratulate him and invite him to visit.

The French presidency says in a statement that Weah accepted the invitation. Macron says the former soccer star and FIFA World Player of the Year still has “a special place in the French’s hearts.”

Weah played with AS Monaco and Paris Saint-Germain, among others. He will take office in January.

___ 12:20 p.m. Liberia’s vice president is congratulating former international soccer star George Weah on winning the West African nation’s presidency.

Joseph Boakai in an address to the nation on Friday is offering to help Weah’s new government if needed. With more than 98 percent of votes counted late Thursday, Weah had received 61.5 percent of ballots while Boakai received 38.5 percent.

Liberia, a nation founded by freed American slaves, is seeing its first democratic transfer of power in more than 70 years as Africa’s first female president, Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, steps aside. The 51-year-old Weah, a senator who entered politics more than a decade ago, will take over in January. ___ 6:45 a.m.

Celebrations have begun in Liberia as former FIFA World Player of the Year George Weah is set to be declared the winner of the West African nation’s presidential election.

With more than 98 percent of votes counted late Thursday, Weah received 61.5 percent of ballots while Vice President Joseph Boakai received 38.5 percent.

Liberia, a nation founded by freed American slaves, is seeing its first democratic transfer of power in more than 70 years as Africa’s first female president, Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, steps aside. She led the country from back-to-back civil wars and saw it through a deadly Ebola outbreak.

The 51-year-old Weah, a senator who entered politics after his 2002 retirement, led the first-round election in October but didn’t receive enough votes to win outright.

Liberia’s Vice President Joseph Boakai has conceded defeat in the country’s presidential election and congratulated his opponent, George Weah.

In a speech to his supporters on Friday, the Unity Party candidate said he had spoken to Weah on the phone and offered him “a hand of goodwill, friendship and gratitude” as he accepted the provisional election results.

“Although we worked so seriously…

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#GeorgeWeah :  l’ancien Ballon d’Or “Mister George” élu président du Liberia

George Weah est le nouveau président du Liberia. L’ex-star du football a obtenu plus de 60% des voix lors du second tour qui l’opposait au vice-président sortant Joseph Boakai. La défaite de ce dernier est aussi la défaite du parti de l’ex-présidente Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, et alors que l’unanimité ne s’était pas faite…

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Soccer star Weah poised to win Liberia's presidency

MONROVIA, Liberia/December 28, 2017(AP)(STL.News) —Former international soccer star George Weah was poised to win Liberia’s presidency with a significant lead and more than 98 percent of votes counted, according to provisional results released Thursday, as the West African nation prepared for its first democratic transfer of power in more than 70 years.

Weah received 61.5 percent of ballots counted and Vice President Joseph Boakai received 38.5 percent, the National Elections Commission said.

As Weah’s supporters erupted in celebration, final results were expected Friday.

The 51-year-old Weah, a FIFA World Player of the Year and senator who entered politics after his 2002 retirement from soccer, also led the first round of voting in October but didn’t receive enough votes to win outright over the 73-year-old Boakai, who has been vice president for 12 years.

They were vying to replace Africa’s first female president, Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who has served two terms. She led the country’s recovery from back-to-back civil wars and saw it through an Ebola outbreak that killed nearly 5,000 Liberians in 2014-2015. Sirleaf didn’t publicly support either candidate.

This is the first time in more than 70 years the nation founded by freed American slaves is seeing one democratically elected government hand power to another. The new president is expected to take office in January.

Neither Weah nor Boakai made any public comment Thursday night after the first results were announced.

Results from four of Liberia’s 15 countries were yet to be released. Though voter turnout for Tuesday’s runoff was low, Weah drew support from the younger generation, which makes up a majority of Liberia’s population of 4.6 million people.

“I am so glad and happy that we now have our president who will bring a change,” said one supporter, Love Norrision, as honking vehicles lined up outside the elections commission headquarters. “We are young people and have suffered in this country for so long.”

The commission said 56 percent of the country’s 2.2 million registered voters cast ballots in the runoff, which was contested twice in court amid claims of irregularities, with its original Nov. 7 date delayed. Weah led the ticket for a coalition party, the Congress for Democratic Change, with Jewel Howard-Taylor as his vice presidential running mate. She is the ex-wife of imprisoned former warlord and President Charles Taylor, which raised concerns among some Liberians.

Weah ran in the country’s last two elections, winning the first round of the 2005 vote that eventually went to Sirleaf.

The Washington-based National Democratic Institute, which observed Tuesday’s runoff, called it peaceful and commended the elections commission for “notable improvements since the Oct. 10 polls.”

“I am proud of Liberians, who have come from crisis to democracy and have shown themselves to be a model of peace and stability in the region,” said election observer and Nigeria’s former President Goodluck Jonathan.

This was Liberia’s first independently run election since the end of its civil wars. The United Nations has helped to oversee past votes.

Former football legend George Weah was announced the winner on Thursday of Liberia’s presidential run-off, beating Vice President Joseph Boakai in the first democratic transfer of power in decades following two devastating civil wars.

George Weah is set to replace incumbent Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who took over at the helm of Africa’s oldest republic in 2006.

The National Election Commission (NEC)…