Liberians Voting For President Weah and Former Vice President in Re-Rerun Presidential Poll
Liberians are voting in presidential run-off election after the two leading candidates were separated by just over 7,000 votes in the first round a month ago.
They are choosing between incumbent and one-time Football Star George Weah and former Vice-President Joseph Boakai.
Polls opened at 08:00 GMT and will close at 18:00 local time (18:00 GMT), when vote counting will get under way.
The victor will be sworn into office in January next year.
Mr. Weah, 57, who got 43.8% of the vote in the first round, and Mr. Boakai, 78, who got 43.4%, have both been trying to build political alliances with the 18 other candidates who ran in the first round.
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In 2017, Mr. Weah triumphed over Mr. Boakai, gaining 61% of the vote in the second round.
Incumbent Weah has asked voters for more time to make good on his first-term promises to root out corruption and improve livelihoods.
The West African nation is still suffering the fallout from two civil wars between 1989 and 2003, and the 2013-16 Ebola epidemic that killed thousands of people.
Meanwhile Boakai has campaigned on the need to rescue the nation from what he calls mismanagement by Weah’s administration, which has been dogged by graft scandals.
Both Weah and Boakai have received endorsements from candidates who lost in the first round.
A key point will be who the 6% of voters whose ballots were invalidated in the first round favour in the run-off.
Although generally peaceful, the electoral period saw a few clashes between rival factions, and any alleged irregularities in the second round could potentially fuel unrest.
