Bookended by appearances from Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first woman president of any African country, and Vice President Kamala Harris, the GBEF summit kicked off with a message of empowering women.

AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh-Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf waves at her home in the city of Monrovia, Liberia, Friday, Oct 7, 2011. Africa’s first democratically elected female president, a ...

Former Liberian President Ellen Sirleaf has urged public service bodies to absorb more young people. Sirleaf said that is the only way the younger generation can get the voice and space serve. She was ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has been honoured with the Zambia’s highest award, the Order of the Eagle, by President Hakainde Hichilema in Lusaka, the country’s capital. Also, former Presidents ...

Nobel winner Ellen Sirleaf faces challenge in today's election. Oct. 11, 2011 — -- The opposition party in Liberia, where elections are being held today, said it would welcome back former warlord ...

User-Created Clip June 11, 2018 2017-09-10T10:19:39-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/acd/20170910101954002_hd.jpgHelene Cooper describing Ellen Sirleaf Johnson ...

Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has been honoured with the Zambia highest award of the Order of the Eagle by the President, Mr. Hakainde Hichilema on Thursday, in Lusaka, the country’s ...

Africa has never seen anything like Ellen Sirleaf-Johnson, said Austin Ejiet in the Kampala Monitor. The Harvard-trained Liberian president has been in office an entire year and has yet to establish a ...

Accra, March 18, GNA – Global leaders seek to inspire the next generation of changemakers through candid conversations about their lives and careers through the Mastercard Foundation new podcast. It ...

The 72-year-old Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, nicknamed NNN, was sworn in on Friday as the first woman president of the southern African nation of Namibia. Her SWAPO party, which has ruled the country of ...