As Liberia prepares to head to the polls to elect a new president and legislators next Tuesday, October 10, the women of Liberia have begun a religious undertaking involving weeks of fasting and prayers for peaceful elections.
They started this process from the 23rd of September camping across the country and are expected to conclude on the eve of the elections, Monday, October 9, 2017.
The women have also mounted placards outside their camps read as follows: ‘Don’t touch our peace,’ ‘Say no to violence’ etc.
The current president, who also is the first female president in Africa Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, whose term mandate runs out, has appealed for peace.
Speaking in an interview with the BBC, she said, “It took a lot of managing, tolerance, compromises, and everything that kept the peace because, without the peace, we would not have done what we have.
“But today I’m so pleased that now, our first generation of children can say they do not know anything about a gun, they never have to run,” she said.
