(FILES) This file photograph taken on November 5, 2011 shows Liberian opposition presidential candidate Winston Tubman (R) and his running mate former footballer George Weah as they attend a press conference at the Congress for Democratic Change 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 / Issouf SANOGO