أول امرأة تتولى منصب رئيس الدولة في قارة أفريقيا

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, an economist and veteran politician, has been elected President of Liberia

إيلين جونسون سيرليف رئيسة لدولة ليبريا.


إقتصادية و لها باع في الشئون السياسية, تنتخب كأول إمرة تتولى رئاسة دولة في أفريقيا.

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Way Up




AFRICA

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Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (born 1939) is a Liberian politician and international public servant in Africa. She is the leader of the Unity Party.

Educated at Harvard, Johnson-Sirleaf became involved in government, when she became Finance Minister in President William Tolbert's administration in 1970. While running for Senate in 1985, she spoke out against the military regime, and was sentenced to ten years in prison. Released after a short period, she left in exile and returned in 1997 in the capacity of an economist, working for the World Bank, and the Citibank in Africa.
Initially supporting Charles Taylor's rebellion against General Samuel Doe, she later went on to oppose him, and ran against him in the Presidential elections. She managed only 10% of the votes, as opposed to Taylor's 75%. Taylor charged her with treason. In her efforts to bring justice to her own people in Liberia, she campaigned for the removal of President Taylor from office, playing an active and supportive role in the transitional government, as the country prepares itself for the elections in October, 2005.

Positions
• 1972 - 1973: Secretary of State for Finance of the Government of Liberia
• 1980 - c. 1985: Minister of Finance of the Government of Liberia
• 1982 - 1985: Vice-President of the Africa Regional Office of Citibank, Nairobi
• 1986 - 1992: Vice-President and member of the Executive Board of Equator Bank, Washington
• 1992 - 1997: Director of UN Development Programme Regional Bureau for Africa
• 1997: Standard Bearer of Unity Party
• 2004-2005: Chairperson of the Commission on Good Governance (Liberia)
• 2005: Standard Bearer of Unity Party; Candidate for President

Johnson-Sirleaf was also:
• Founding member of the "International Institute for Women in Political Leadership"
• Member of the Advisory Board of "Modern Africa Growth and Investment Company"
• Member of the Finance Committee of "Modern Africa Fund Managers"
• President of "Liberian Bank for Development and Investment"
• President of "Kormah Development and Investment Corporation"
• Senior Loan Officer of "World Bank"
• Vice President of "Citibank"


Publications
• From Disaster to Development (1991)
• The Outlook for Commercial Bank Lending to Sub-Saharan Africa (1992)

Awards
• Recipient of the 1988 Franklin Delano Roosevelt Freedom of Speech Award;
• Ralph Bunche International Leadership Award;
• Grand Commander Star of Africa Redemption of Liberia; and
• Commandeur de l'Ordre du Togo.


Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ms. Johnson Sirleaf’s peace-building activities include:

investigating the Rwandan genocide in 1999 as one of seven international “Eminent Personalities” selected by the Organization of African Unity—the group later published the report The Preventable Genocide;
co-authoring Women, War and Peace: The Independent Experts’ Assessment on the Impact of Armed Conflict on Women and Women’s Role in Peace-building (2002), a project of UNIFEM (the United Nations Development Fund for Women); and
serving as a board member for the International Crisis Group and the Nelson Mandela Foundation and as initial chair of the board of directors of the Open Society Institute for West Africa, which disburses $10 million per year in grants to organizations working in the areas of human rights (including women’s political and economic empowerment), democracy and governance, media and technology (including information and communications technologies), legal reform and transitional justice, and HIV/AIDS.


source:
The Initiative for Inclusive Security

During the election campaign, the diminutive grandmother figure was often dwarfed by her party officials and bodyguards but over a political career spanning almost 30 years she has earned her steely nickname.

BBC

The Iron Lady

No one can tell us any more that Africa is not ready for a woman president"

Stella Tamale
Dean of law at Makerere University in Uganda

The "Iron Lady" vows to unite and rebuild Liberia

Reuters

مزيدا من الانتصار والتقدم للمرأة الافريقيه ولافريقيا .

Thanks Ya Kostawi for the message... Liberian friends in Philadelphia played a major role in her election among immigrants in the US...

Mohamed Elgadi