Liberia has a new president.
Liberia has a new president. George Weah, Liberia’s new president, has packed football (or to Americans, soccer) stadiums before. As a professional player, he was named the 1995 FIFA World Player of the Year. But on Jan. 22, he packed Monrovia’s Samuel Kanyon Doe Stadium to be sworn in as Liberia’s 24 th president — the first time since 1944 that the nation saw a peaceful transfer of power between two democratically elected presidents. The 2017 vote that brought him to power also marked the first time the Liberian government ran its own election without U.N. support. Liberia’s new president, George Weah, speaks during his inauguration ceremony in Monrovia, Liberia, on Jan. 22. (Abbas Dulleh/AP)