Liberia's Nobel peace laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf will be sworn in Monday in a lavish $1.2 million ceremony after her disputed re-election in the nation's second post-war polls.
The 73-year-old grandmother, Africa's first democratically-elected president, managed to appease her opponents on the eve of her inauguration and the opposition Congress for Democratic Change recognised her win Sunday after a rocky election and weeks of negotiations.
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