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2005-10-18 Africa: Subsaharan

Former international soccer star George Weah will face Liberia's ex-finance minister in a presidential election run-off Nov. 8, an electoral official said Monday. With 90 percent of the count tallied from the Oct. 11 poll, Weah's 257,027 votes put him ahead of his closest rival, former Finance Minister Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, who got 175,520 votes. The latest results were based on a count from 2,781 of the 3,000 polling stations, National Electoral Commission Chairman Frances Morris said. A run-off is necessary because none of the 22 candidates in the Oct. 11 polls won at least 51 percent of the vote.

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