Timmy Le
English 1109
19 October 2016
Journal Seven: Ellen
Johnson-Sirleaf
Ellen
Johnson-Sirleaf was born in 1938 in Liberia. She was exiled two times in the
1980s for speaking against the Liberian’s government. In 2005, Ellen
Johnson-Sirleaf won the presidential election in 2005 and became the first
female president in Liberia. Later in 2011, Ellen was awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has multiple degrees in accounting, economics, and
a public administration.
When Ellen
won the presidential election, she promises an economic development and to end
the civil war in Liberia. Later on, Ellen was known as the “Iron Lady” because
she became the world’s first black female president and Africa’s first female
president. When Ellen became president, the country was facing over eighty
percent of unemployment. Later on in 2010, Ellen had stop almost all of the
country’s debt and unemployment. Ellen also created a Truth and Reconciliation
Committee or the TRC in 2006 to stop corruptions and protect ethnic tensions.
Ellen also
changed the Liberian’s constitution. Before 2011, Liberian’s presidents were
only allowed to run for one term. The court in Liberia decides to change the
one term condition because they realized that when the constitution was made,
it could not have predicted the future and the state it was in before Ellen was
elected for president. By the end of 2011, Ellen won her reelection.
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Ellen giving a speech for her second term in office. |
I enjoyed reading your post on Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf the first woman to be a president of a country.
ReplyDeleteI liked how in depth you went with her history and the accomplishments she has made.
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