MONROVIA (Reuters) - Former soccer star George Weah has won Liberia's presidential run-off election and will succeed incumbent Ellen Johnson Sirleaf next month, the country's first democratic transition in over 70 years. "When you feel sick for some time and you receive proper medication - that is how I feel now. He won the first round then but lost the second round to Johnson Sirleaf, whom he will now succeed. "My fellow Liberians, I deeply feel the emotion of all the nation," Weah wrote on Twitter after the results were announced. (Additional reporting by Alphonso Toweh and James Giahyue; Writing by Aaron Ross; Editing by Andrew Heavens, Larry King)

Source: The Star December 28, 2017 18:36 UTC