Liberia’s election: Supreme Court dismisses Boakai petition
The election, slated for Dec 26, to replace the nation’s first female president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, will go ahead as planned.
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Liberians will go to the polls on Tuesday in a runoff to choose the next president.
It follows weeks of uncertainty about whether the vote would actually happen – until it was reaffirmed by a Supreme Court hearing.
Ex-international footballer George Weah is taking on the country’s vice president, Joseph Boakai.
Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Adow reports from the capital, Monrovia.
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Published On 24 Dec 2017