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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dj gamaya" data-source="post: 8859127" data-attributes="member: 61857">05. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf,  President of Liberia<img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_iTGXYFIkfkA/TO0clic1WZI/AAAAAAAAdpk/G61VGfKcsdA/s1600/06+Ellen-Johnson-Sirleaf.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Educated at the University of Wisconsin and at Harvard, Africa’s first  female President served as Liberia’s Minister of Finance in the late  1970s. But when Samuel Doe seized power in a military coup in 1980 and  executed the President and several Cabinet members, Johnson Sirleaf fled  to Kenya, where she became a director at Citibank. She returned to  contest the 1996 presidential election and lost to Charles Taylor. In  2005, she ran again and won, promising to bring motherly sensitivity and  emotion to the presidency — a tall order in a country still reeling  from years of civil war.</blockquote>

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