here are 18 other presidential candidates including Alex Cummings, a former Coca-Cola executive, and MacDella Cooper, a former model and ex-girlfriend of Mr Weah.

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for helping bring peace after a 14-year civil war all but destroyed her country.

Ms Sirleaf has urged people to vote peacefully.

“Your vote is about you and your family – not party, ethnicity,” she said in an address to to the nation.

The head of the electoral commission, Jerome Kokoya, told the BBC’s Newsday programme that polls would close at 18:00 GMT and that he expects early results to be announced by 23:00 GMT.

Ms Sirleaf took office in 2006, after her predecessor, Charles Taylor, was forced out of office by rebels in 2003, ending the long civil war.

Taylor is currently serving a 50-year prison sentence in the UK for war crimes related to the conflict in neighbouring Sierra Leone.
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