What Joseph Boakai's presidential win means for Liberia | DW News

Liberia's next president is calling for national unity. Joseph Boakai was declared the winner of the run-off poll by the narrowest of margins. The country's election commission said the 78-year-old Boakai took 50.64 percent of the vote, only 20,000 votes more than his rival, incumbent George Weah. The outgoing president conceded defeat last Friday, a move that won him praise for promoting a non-violent transition in a region marred by coups.

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