Ballon D'Or Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/ballon-dor/ The low down on African affairs Sun, 15 Oct 2017 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Ballon D'Or Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/ballon-dor/ 32 32 Liberia heads of presidential election run off https://jjcornish.com/2017/10/liberia-heads-presidential-election-run-off/ Sun, 15 Oct 2017 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2017/10/liberia-heads-presidential-election-run-off/ Liberia’s set for a run-off after the presidential election six days ago. With less than five percent of the votes left to tally, former football star George Weah and Vice President  Joseph Boakai has secured a lead over the 18 other candidates – but not enough for an outright win. They’ve both scored world firsts […]

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]]> Liberia’s set for a run-off after the presidential election six days ago.

With less than five percent of the votes left to tally, former football star George Weah and Vice President  Joseph Boakai has secured a lead over the 18 other candidates – but not enough for an outright win.

They’ve both scored world firsts for Liberia.

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is standing down as Africa’s first elected woman president.

George Weah, fighting to succeed her, was the first African to win football Ballon D’Or award.

Weah has 39 percent of the vote in the first round last Tuesday.

Vice President Joseph Boakai is ten points behind him.

They’ll be the contestants in next month’s run-off.

At least one of the beaten candidates Charles Brumskine is alleging electoral fraud.

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