{"id":77681,"date":"2014-12-28T09:50:09","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T09:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=77681"},"modified":"2014-12-28T09:50:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T09:50:09","slug":"george-weah-earns-landslide-win-liberia-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=77681","title":{"rendered":"George Weah earns landslide win in Liberia senate race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\" class=\"introduction\">The former football star George Weah has won a landslide victory in Liberia&#8217;s senate elections, in polls disrupted by the Ebola outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Weah got 78% of the vote for the Montserrado county seat, which includes the capital Monrovia.<\/p>\n<p>He beat Robert Sirleaf, the son of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who took nearly 11%.<\/p>\n<p>Low turnout in the poll, which was first planned for October, was blamed on concerns about Ebola.<\/p>\n<p>Strict health controls were in place to try to prevent the spread of the disease.<\/p>\n<div class=\"caption full-width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/79954000\/jpg\/_79954752_79954751.jpg\" alt=\"A Liberian red cross official takes the temperature of a man before casting his vote in senate elections\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" \/><strong>Health workers took the temperatures of voters as a precaution against Ebola<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption full-width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/79954000\/jpg\/_79954828_79954827.jpg\" alt=\"A Liberian woman casts her vote in senate elections\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" \/><strong>Turnout was low, despite safety measures<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>Those who came to polling stations had their temperature taken, were told to stand a metre (3ft) apart and wash their hands before and after voting.<\/p>\n<p>Liberia has been one of the countries worst affected by Ebola, with almost 3,400 deaths, the UN says.<\/p>\n<p>Other winners in the senate elections include Jewel Howard-Taylor, the ex-wife of the jailed former president Charles Taylor, and the former rebel leader Prince Johnson. Both retained their seats.<\/p>\n<p>The National Elections Commission chairman, Jerome Korkoya, called the conclusion of the vote &#8220;the end of a crucial journey&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Weah won the first round of the 2005 presidential election, losing the runoff to Ms Johnson-Sirleaf.<\/p>\n<p>He is the only African to be named Fifa&#8217;s world player of the year, winning in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former football star George Weah has won a landslide victory in Liberia&#8217;s senate elections, in polls disrupted by the Ebola outbreak. Mr Weah got 78% of the vote for the Montserrado county seat, which includes the capital Monrovia. He beat Robert Sirleaf, the son of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who took nearly 11%. Low [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":77682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-77681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}