A girl takes down laundry hung on lines between homes partially  washed away in August, in a densely populated beachfront community suffering from coastal erosion, in the Sinkor neighborhood, Monrovia, Liberia Friday, Oct. 14, 2011. Liberia&#039;s electoral commission announced Friday that incumbent Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was ahead with 265,883 votes, or 45.5 percent of the ballots counted so far. But she had fallen short of the majority needed to win the election outright. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)