Timeline Monday 16 January 2006

Events on Monday 16 January 2006 1

• 2006 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf inaugurated as Liberia's president First elected female head of state in Africa Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was sworn in as President of Liberia after winning the 2005 election. She became the first woman elected as a head of state anywhere in Africa. Her presidency focused on postwar reconstruction after Liberia's civil wars.