MONROVIA, Liberia ? Preliminary partial results from Liberia's presidential election show Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf failing to reach the majority needed to avoid a runoff.
While Africa's first democratically elected leader led in early results, she had only about 42 percent of the vote in the tallies released Thursday.
Her main challenger ? a ticket that includes soccer star George Weah ? trailed with nearly 25 percent.
The race's kingmaker appears to be senator Prince Johnson, a former warlord who videotaped himself in 1990 drinking beer as he ordered his men to cut off the ears of this nation's former president, who later died.
He's received nearly 13 percent of votes counted thus far, and hasn't said officially whom he will endorse in a second round.
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