Liberia: Ellen Says Entrepreneurs Are Emerging Pillars Job Creation

Monrovia — President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has commended Liberian entrepreneurs and described their commitment in making a giant step as significant and critical to youth employment, job-creation and poverty reduction. According to an Executive Mansion release, the Liberian leader was speaking at the official opening of a two-day Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (MSME) Conference, Trade Fair and E-PLUS Program held at the Monrovia City Hall on Tuesday, November 17, 2015.

She said amid 90 percent of Liberia's population mainly youth, the private sector - as an engine of growth - provides the best space, opportunity and option to empower the many young people out there. President Sirleaf paid tribute to young and enterprising Mahmud Johnson who returned home from the United States - where he could have remained in search of better opportunities but selected to come back and give to his country.

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