Liberia, AfricaEsther Ba looks through a window of the abandoned building where she lives with her daughter and more than a dozen other people in Monrovia, Liberia, on Nov. 9. A disputed election underscores recent political tension. Critics of incumbent and recent Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Africa’s first freely elected female head of state, say progress in her first term was too slow and that much of the population lives in poverty.Finbarr O’Reilly / Reuters
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Liberia, Africa

Esther Ba looks through a window of the abandoned building where she lives with her daughter and more than a dozen other people in Monrovia, Liberia, on Nov. 9. A disputed election underscores recent political tension. Critics of incumbent and recent Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Africa’s first freely elected female head of state, say progress in her first term was too slow and that much of the population lives in poverty.

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