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MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) - Liberians paraded in the streets of their capital Monday holding giant pictures of a soccer star, a former rebel and other candidates at the official start of campaigning for their nation's first postwar presidential election.
Twenty-two candidates were cleared to stand in the Oct. 11 vote citizens hope will lead the war-battered west African nation of 3 million people to long-term peace and development.
One of the candidates was African soccer legend George Weah. Another was Sekou Conneh, leader of the rebel group whose deadly mid-2003 siege of Monrovia helped drive former President Charles Taylor into exile.
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