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George Weah holds huge pre-election rally in Liberia
(Reuters)
Updated: 2005-10-09 16:16

MONROVIA, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of supporters of Liberian presidential hopeful George Weah brought Monrovia to a standstill on Saturday as the millionaire soccer star held a final campaign rally before Liberia's first post-war elections.

Former international soccer star and presidential hopeful George Weah gestures during a campaign rally for the Congress for Democratic Change at his headquarters in Monrovia October 8, 2005. Tens of thousands of supporters brought Monrovia to a standstill on Saturday as the millionaire soccer star held a final campaign rally before Liberia's first post-war elections.
Former international soccer star and presidential hopeful George Weah gestures during a campaign rally for the Congress for Democratic Change at his headquarters in Monrovia October 8, 2005. Tens of thousands of supporters brought Monrovia to a standstill on Saturday as the millionaire soccer star held a final campaign rally before Liberia's first post-war elections.[Reuters]
The presidential and parliamentary polls on Tuesday are meant to draw a line under a 14-year civil war in Liberia -- one of the most brutal conflicts ever seen in Africa -- which killed a quarter of a million people and ended with a 2003 peace deal.

Wearing white T-shirts and bandanas bearing Weah's name or image, huge crowds of fans of the former AC Milan striker flooded roads on the edge of the capital as they marched from his home in a Monrovia suburb to his party headquarters.

In the crush, a 45-year-old man died from heat exhaustion and four more people were treated in hospital, witnesses said.

"George! George! He play football! He play football!," chanted one group of young men, running in formation.

The only African to have won FIFA's World Player of the Year award, which he obtained in 1995, 39-year-old Weah is one of the favourites to win Tuesday's poll.

His main challenger is considered to be veteran opposition politician Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, a former World Bank economist whose final rally on Thursday drew around 20,000 supporters. She and Weah are among 22 candidates standing for the presidency.
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