Vol 2 (AAC) No 6 | LIBERIACHINA Deal or no deal 16th April 2009 The Minerals Development Agreement between China Union and the Liberian government, which Africa-Asia Confidential has seen, offers China Union royalty payments and tax exemptions that are far more generous than the...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 4 | LIBERIACHINA A more perfect union 20th February 2009 Beijing’s special relationship with Monrovia defies market conditions and is expanding into Guinea and Sierra Leone The US$2.68 billion agreement signed by China Union's Chief Executive Yin Fuyou and Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on 19 January to restart iron ore production at the old...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 4 | LIBERIACHINA The born-again Bong mines 20th February 2009 The US$2.68 billion Bong Mines deal hands the Chinese consortium led by Yin Fuyou and China Union a 25-year concession for the formerly German-owned Bong Mines in Bong Country, north-east of...
Vol 49 No 20 | LIBERIA Graft never really went away 3rd October 2008 Revelations of grand corruption in mining and shipping contracts embarrass the government Liberia's government, foreign diplomats and United Nations officials say that Liberia is a nation reborn. War is over, corruption is being rooted out and under the two-and-half year...
Vol 49 No 20 | LIBERIA All my friends in New York 3rd October 2008 Madam President addresses the UN General Assembly Life in Liberia is gradually improving, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf told the United Nations' General Assembly to some applause on 23 September. The economy has been getting...
Vol 49 No 7 | LIBERIA Nightmare on Broad Street 28th March 2008 Liberia's Finance Minister Antoinette Sayeh faces a huge problem as she steers the country into qualifiying for the World Bank's and International Monetary Fund's debt reduction programme by...
Vol 48 No 16 | LIBERIA Rumours and plots 3rd August 2007 President Johnson-Sirleaf's enemies have come out in the open with a raft of allegations and threats of military action Murky reports of coup plots and corruption are tarnishing President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf’s government. Local political scheming undermines her high international credibility and that of her Finance Minister, Antoinette...
Vol 48 No 6 | LIBERIA Referee in a tug-of-war 16th March 2007 The technocratic President is battling to keep her reforms on track and to outplay the kleptocrats and nationalists Monrovia's political tug-of-war is getting tougher and President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is in the middle as reluctant arbiter and sole referee. At one end of the rope, Liberia's political...
Vol 48 No 6 | LIBERIA The neighbours are unstable 16th March 2007 Liberia's troubles affect its whole region. During the civil war, Liberian mercenaries joined the fight in Sierra Leone and Côte d'Ivoire. President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is now warning ex-fighters...
Vol 48 No 3 | LIBERIA Snowe white-out 2nd February 2007 Edwin Melvin Snowe's battle to keep his position as Speaker of the House of Representatives is becoming an embarrassing cause célèbre as he claims the plot against him...
