Posted 1/23/2024, 11:50:00 AM
Liberian President Boakai Suffers Heat Exhaustion During Inauguration Speech But Quickly Recovers
- Liberian President Boakai, 79, suffered heat exhaustion 30 minutes into his inauguration speech and had to be helped off stage
- Doctors declared him "perfectly fine" afterwards and he resumed normal activities
- Boakai narrowly defeated former footballer George Weah, 57, in November's presidential runoff
- He pledged to improve the economy, address corruption, and upgrade basic services in his abbreviated speech
- Boakai was vice president under Nobel winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf before running for president in 2017 and 2018