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Liberia: Footballer-turned-president George Weah faces test over planned constitutional changes

Former World Player of the Year George Weah. [Photo courtesy]

Liberians vote Tuesday in a referendum on shortening presidential terms, a change some members of the opposition fear President George Weah will exploit to extend his stay in office.

Ballot papers will also ask voters whether to lift a ban on holding dual nationality, a divisive issue in the poor West African nation founded as a haven for freed American slaves in the 19th century.

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