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Liberia

Liberia

Population: 5.56m
GDP: $4.75bn
Debt: 56.5% of GDP (2024)

news from Liberia

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Shooting in the mansion

After fighting up country, the warlords bring their battles to the government offices

The personal vendettas in Monrovia are only part of the real battle for control of Liberia that is being fought out in the hinterland. All the signs are that Charles Taylor is once...


Asylum? No, thanks

The Economic Community of West African States' Accra 'Summit' on 6-8 May has bitten the dust (AC Vol 37 No 10). If things are not settled, we hear the Ecowas Chairman, Ghana's Pres...


Out of control

After the latest shoot out in Monrovia, West Africans want their peacekeepers to get tough or get out

Without a sustained commitment from Washington and the United Nations to help West African peacekeeping efforts and without an enforceable timetable for the disarmament of Liberia'...


Monrovia muggings

Tension is rising in Monrovia. National Patriotic Front of Liberia leader Charles Taylor and United Liberation Movement -Krahn (Ulimo-K) leader Alhaji G.V.Kromah have banded togeth...


Keeping what peace?

The warlords behind the six-year conflict want to take control of the peacekeeping operation from the ECOMOG troops

Who rules Liberia? At present, nobody. Since 1990, the nearest thing to a national authority has been the peacekeeping force of the Economic Community of West African States. Forma...


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