[Liberian Observer] More than eight years after leaving office, former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf continues to cast a long shadow over Liberian politics. Her presidency is still measured against the devastation wrought by civil war, the reconstruction that followed, and the democratic institutions she helped build. Yet, increasingly, another question has begun to dominate discussions of her legacy: Did Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s political decisions in 2017 inadvertently — or deliberately — shape one of the country’s most
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