Vol 6 (AAC) No 6 | LIBERIACHINA Missing money 4th April 2013 The political class is up in arms about the local authorities who are responsible for spending development funds from mining companies A Liberian politician has accused a presidential appointee – who secretly recorded him making comments suggestive of corruption – of misappropriating government funds. Representati...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 6 | LIBERIACHINA Ups and downs in palm oil 4th April 2013 China Development Bank is lending a hand to the agricultural investment plans of Golden Veroleum, controlled by Singapore-based Golden Agri-Resources. In March, the CDB extended a ...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 4 | LIBERIAASIA Farmers take on agribusiness 11th February 2013 Asian agribusiness companies face opposition from NGOs and locals who claim that communities have the right to manage their lands Uncertainty over land rights is stirring controversy for palm oil developers in Liberia. Local and international non-governmental organisations have targeted two agribusiness giant...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 4 | LIBERIACHINA China Union angers locals and workers 11th February 2013 China Union is embroiled in land-rights disputes as it struggles to rehabilitate the Bong iron-ore mines and begin exports (China Union under fire in Bong County). In 2009, the pri...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 2 | LIBERIACHINABRIEFING China Union under fire in Bong County 4th December 2012 China Union’s plan to relocate six villages near the Bong iron mine has been met with anger from the people of Lower Bong County, posing yet another threat to the development of th...
Vol 53 No 23 | LIBERIA What price the Unity Party 16th November 2012 The member of parliament and former Speaker Edwin Melvin Snowe has renewed the offensive against Robert Alvin Sirleaf, Chairman of the National Oil Company of Liberia, and Presiden...
Vol 53 No 18 | LIBERIA Not out of the woods 7th September 2012 Solve one problem and another appears, which is why Liberia still needs the UN and its peacekeepers The United Nations Mission in Liberia should serve another year, according to its latest progress report. It is cautiously optimistic in general but is more forthcoming in describi...
Vol 53 No 14 | LIBERIANORWAY Killers united 6th July 2012 The Norwegian court trying Anders Behring Breivik, the self-confessed killer of 77 people in July 2011, has heard evidence on his stay in Liberia. In the 1,500-page manifesto that...
Vol 53 No 13 | CÔTE D'IVOIRELIBERIA Warlords at work 22nd June 2012 Coup plots in Côte d’Ivoire are linked to the murder of United Nations peacekeepers in the west of the country, officials in Abidjan say.
Vol 53 No 12 | LIBERIASIERRA LEONE Warning to future Taylors 8th June 2012 Most people implicated in the warlord president’s crimes have escaped justice but his sentence will still deter others Trial Chamber II of the United Nations-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone on 30 May sentenced Charles Ghankay Taylor to 50 years in prison for his central role in the vicious wa...