Liberia ruling party expels President Johnson Sirleaf

MONROVIA — Liberia’s ruling Unity Party has expelled the country’s outgoing president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who is accused by party leaders of meddling in last year’s presidential elections in which its candidate suffered a bruising defeat.

Johnson Sirleaf, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who has been in power for 12 years, denies the party’s allegations that she held inappropriate private meetings with election magistrates before the October 10 vote.

Four other party officials were also expelled, the party said in a statement distributed on Sunday.

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