Liberia’s first woman head of state, Madam Ruth Sando Fahnbulleh Perry has been laid to rest following a lengthy illness in Reynoldsburg, Ohio, the United States on Saturday, January 28, 2017 AT AGE 77. Fahnbulleh-Perry first entered the national spotlight when she was appointed to head a six-member Council of State of the Liberia National Transitional Government amid a yearlong civil war in 1996. But Fahnbulleh-Perry, the only woman serving on the council, was able to bring peace among rival factions in the West African nation. “She was a great leader,” said Henry Momo Fahnbulleh, a nephew who worked as Fahnbulleh-Perry’s special assistant when she was president. Fahnbulleh-Perry was laid to rest in a green head wrap and the bright colors she was known for wearing.

Source: GNN Liberia January 31, 2017 10:45 UTC