(FILES) This file photograph taken on November 5, 2011, shows former Liberian footballer and then current vice presidential candidate George Weah of the opposition Congress for Democratic Change party as he waves to supporters at party headquarters in Monrovia. Former star footballer George Weah was named winner of Liberia's presidential election on December 28, 2017, easily beating his challenger in the country's first democratic transfer of power in seven decades scarred by civil wars, political assassinations and an Ebola crisis. / AFP PHOTO / GLENNA GORDON