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 MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) - Liberia voted Tuesday to choose its first postwar president in a heated runoff pitting a soccer star who dropped out of high school against the country's Harvard-educated top female politician.
With U.N. helicopters buzzing over the bombed-out capital, many hoped the vote would herald an era of peace after decades of conflict that displaced a third of the West African nation's 3 million people and left up to 200,000 dead.
"We've been killing each other too much. There's gonna be a change in Liberia this time around," 27-year-old university student Saviour Dixon said after voting at a bullet-splattered warehouse.
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