Liberians are voting in their general presidential and parliamentary elections, where former football star George Weah, 57, making a bid for a second term with challenge from 19 other presidential candidates.
Former Vice President Joseph Boakai, 78, is Weah’s main contender.
Mr Boakai has waged his campaign under the slogan “Rescue”, arguing that the West African state went downhill during Mr Weah’s first six years in office.
This will be the first time that a generation of young voters, born in peace-time Liberia, will vote for a president.
A brutal civil war, which killed an estimated 250,000 people, ended two decades ago.
According to reports about 2.4 million people have registered to vote, with polls due to open at 08:00 GMT.
A total of 19 candidates – including two women – are running against Mr Weah, who took over from Africa’s first elected female president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, after she stepped down at the end of her two terms in 2018.
Liberia’s main parties have pledged to uphold peace during the polls, despite clashes between rival camps in the final days of the campaign.
Election-related violence left three people dead in September.
President George Weah won his first term in 2017 after securing 61% of the vote in a run-off, defeating Mr Boakai, who served as Ms Sirleaf’s deputy.
The winner of the presidential election must secure 50 percent of the valid vote cast plus one vote in other to skip run-off.
