Liberia votes for president

WAR-RAVAGED Liberia voted yesterday to choose its first post-war president in a heated run-off pitting an international soccer star who dropped out of school against the country’s Harvard-educated top female politician.

With UN helicopters buzzing over the bombed-out capital Monrovia, many prayed the vote would herald an era of peace after decades of conflict.

One-time FIFA player of the year George Weah and former Finance Minister Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf finished first and second in the October 11 first round, which weeded out 20 other candidates.

Initial results will be known within days.