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Guardian: Nobel peace prize could not have come at a better time for Liberia
[The Guardian (blog)] - Liberia's joint Nobel peace prize winners: Leymah Gbowee and President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Photograph: Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and peace activist Leymah Gbowee, also from Liberia
Cameroon elections: incumbent Paul Biya set for fourth decade in power
www.telegraph.co.uk
[Telegraph.co.uk] - Recent elections in Zambia brought about a rare peaceful transition of power on the continent and Tuesday's polls in Liberia could return Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, freshly crowned by the Nobel Peace Prize. Mr Biya however looked in no danger of failing to
American growth theorists top contenders for Nobel
www.ctv.ca
[CTV.ca] - Acclaimed Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer won the literature prize and Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen shared the Nobel Peace Prize "for their nonviolent struggle for the safety of
The Reading List: Nobel Prize winners
www.independent.co.uk
[The Independent] - In 2005, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a co-winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, was elected the first, and so far only, female president in Africa. Her memoirs follow her incredible journey from a humble upbringing and young marriage
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