Pepole play near flags on the beach in the township of West Point, in Monrovia, Liberia, October 18, 2017. REUTERS/Thierry Gouegnon
MONROVIA (Reuters) - Crammed into tumble-down shacks on a sandspit that the Atlantic Ocean is steadily devouring, the residents of Liberia's most notorious slum have one common desire: an end to their daily struggle with dire poverty.
Next month, when the 75,000 inhabitants of the capital Monrovia's West Point neighbourhood decide who should be the next leader of Africa's oldest republic, an ex-soccer star or the current vice president, they will not be nostalgic.
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