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Liberia opposition leader eyes presidency in 2023

Joseph Boakai says he will run in the 2023 presidential elections to follow his 'desire to serve' the people of Liberia. In 2017, he lost the election to the incumbent President George Weah, but he thinks the current leader of Liberia 'is not doing what people want'. He's been speaking to Focus on Africa's Esau Williams on the line from Maryland in the United States,

(Photo: Joseph Boakai. Credit: Bruce Bisping/Star Tribune via Getty Images)

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