(FILES) This file photo taken on September 25, 2017 shows former football player and candidate in Liberia's presidential elections, George Weah posing during a photo session in Paris. AFP / JOEL SAGET
Monrovia: Former international football star George Weah was sworn in as Liberia's new president on Monday, in the country's first transition between democratically-elected leaders since 1944.
Weah, 51, took over from Nobel laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who spent 12 years at the helm, steering the West African nation away from the trauma of a civil war.
