Current Liberian President George Manneh Weah has sent a message of congratulations to his predecessor, former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in a Tweet to her as she celebrates her 81st birth anniversary today, October 29, 2019.
Weah took office on January 22, 2018 from Sirleaf who she ended her second six-year term, after he defeated the then ruling Unity Party (UP) presidential candidate, Joseph Boakai, Sirleaf’s former Vice President.
According to her Biography, former President Sirleaf was born October 29, 1938, Monrovia, Liberia), Liberian politician and economist who was president of Liberia (2006–18). She was the first woman to be elected head of state of an African country. Johnson Sirleaf was one of three recipients, along with Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karmān, of the 2011 Nobel Prize for Peace for their efforts to further women’s rights.