Liberia's President George Weah on Monday told parliament he would run for reelection this year after a first term marred with graft allegations and economic downturn.
Weah, 56, took office in 2018 in the West African country's first peaceful change of power in seven decades and is constitutionally eligible to run again in the Oct. 10 poll.
He promised to end endemic corruption his predecessor, Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, was widely accused of failing to address.
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