BARCLAYVILLE, Liberia (Reuters) - Liberia's president, George Weah, has a message for voters ahead of Tuesday's election: he needs more time. After a first term marred by corruption allegations and continued hardship, many still need convincing.
As in 2017, Weah is campaigning on building new roads, a timely subject during elections which come around in the rainy season when much of the country's unpaved routes are cut off from the capital Monrovia by bad weather.Weah, 57, had a storied athletic career, rising from the slums of Liberia to the summit of world soccer playing for top clubs such as Paris Saint-Germain and AC Milan. He will face 19 candidates in the presidential election.
Weah has built hospitals and introduced free education in a country still struggling to emerge from two devastating civil wars between 1989 and 2003, and a 2013-16 Ebola epidemic that killed thousands. "Weah said he was coming for change. But now, everything has got worse ... Everything is hard," said Josephine Musa, a small-business owner in Monrovia.
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