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Former soccer star George Weah hopes to succeed President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who is stepping down after two terms in office.

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FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014 file photo, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, center, has her temperature taken by a Chinese soldier, left, before the opening of a new Ebola virus clinic sponsored by China, in Monrovia, Liberia. Liberia’s president says the country must and will get to zero Ebola cases. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf made the comment Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015, while appearing at an Armed Forces Day celebration. (AP Photo/ Abbas Dulleh, File)

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Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, left, walks with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Monrovia, Liberia Monday, Jan.16, 2012. Clinton was in Liberia to attend the second presidential inauguration of Sirleaf, Africa's first woman president, later in the day. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)

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The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winners — (from left) Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Yemeni activist Tawakkol Karman — take the stage at City Hall in Oslo on Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011. (AP Photo/John McConnico)

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Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (front), with Prince Johnson (right), arrives for a rally at the Stephen Tubman Estates in Monrovia, Liberia, on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011, the last day of campaigning before Tuesday's runoff election. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)