Liberians voted on Tuesday to choose whether their first post-war president will be a popular millionaire soccer star who dropped out of high school or a Harvard-trained former finance minister.

A month after a first round election failed to produce an outright winner, former AC Milan striker George Weah and economist Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf faced off in a runoff to decide who will lead Liberia following the end of a 14-year civil war.

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