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December 28 , 2004 -The Perspective

Since the dawn of creation, there has always been interaction between human beings and the environment. This was in certain circumstances a one-way action (man effecting the environment) while in other cases it was an interaction (such as our parentage whose interaction with the earth’s “fullness” resulted in their living on the earth as stewards and gather food for both man and domesticated animals to eat)
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My intension in this dialogue is to broach a new and vibrant page in the area of Liberian foreign policy that has long been sequestered and neglected by both past and present Liberian foreign policy makers at the helm of respective Liberian governments over decades.
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We bring you greetings from the Association of Liberian Women in Pennsylvania, ALWP. Just in case you are wondering what ALWP is and what it does, this medium is engaged to briefly introduce the organization and give its brief history.
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Having worked in Liberia and concluded its assessment between August and November 2004, the Panel has finally presented its findings to the UNSC for debate and decision.
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The December 2004 reports of the UN Panel of Experts report has revealed that it has evidence that former Liberian president Charles Taylor is still receiving money from Liberia.
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At the same time, the Nimbaians have demanded that they should be given unrestrained access to their county's natural resources through direct and unhindered participation in all negotiations between the Government of Liberia and investors for the exploitation of the county's natural resources, among other things.
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Citizens of Nimba County under the banner of the United Nimba Citizens Council (UNICCO) have called for the ratification of all concession agreements signed by companies operating in the county and past governments.
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Heavily-armed police constables whisked Bennie off to the Central Police Headquarters on Capitol Bypass yesterday moments after he was dismissed for “rampant administrative indiscipline” following his alleged attempt to defy finance authorities to suspend him.
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The Belgium-based International Crisis Group (ICG) has called on the international community to consider the possibility of immediately assuming responsibility for revenue collection as part of efforts to prevent Liberia from sliding back into a failed state.
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NTLA Speaker George Dweh was rescued in a dramatic turn of events by UNMIL from an hour-long siege of his convoy by angry students and returned to his home under close security escort, missing a day’s work at the Capitol.
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With more than half of the people of Liberia estimated to be living on less than 50 cents a day, a United Nations-appointed expert panel says the West African country is suffering from "widespread financial improprieties by government officials, extremely low economic growth, a high foreign and domestic debt burden" and about 80 per cent unemployment.
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The people of Nimba continue to pursue peace at all cost. During the regime of former President Charles Taylor, citizens of the county fought hard to bridge the gap created by war and inter-tribal feuds, but little that achieved.
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The National Port Authority remains the only dependable and vibrant government institution upon which the strength of the economy lies but from all indications, occurrences there continue to paint different picture, something that seems to anger NTGL Chairman Gyude Bryant. Ellis Togba reports
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If Liberia must stay on course to attract investors, it must discourage corruption by punishing corrupt officials, says the ambassador of the United States of America accredited to Liberia, John William Blaney
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Basing my analysis on the Liberian constitution and the provision that all Liberians have the equal chance of vying for the presidency provided they meet the requisite requirements and current electoral laws and rules, I find it a kind of non sequitur for any Liberian at this time to pass out a judgment for or against any Liberian wishing to pose his candidature for the Liberian presidency.
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MONROVIA, 3 Dec 2004 (IRIN) - The United States on Friday threatened to cut its aid for Liberia's post-war reconstruction if the country's transitional parliament delayed elections scheduled for October 2005 by insisting on a new census.
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Normalcy continued to elude the General Services Agency (GSA), the government’s bulk purchasing agency, for the second day yesterday after a convulsive hubbub between Director Edward Farley and his Principal Deputy, Emmanuel Lomax, over the appointment of a key Financial Manager.
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Carpetbaggers have always promised Liberians Utopia in their search for selfish financial gains. From the alleged bloodless overthrow of William Tolbert in 1980 to the savage slaughter of Samuel Doe in 1990 to the dishonorable removal of Charles Taylor in 2003, insurgents have promised to provide the much-needed bread and butter for the suffering millions of Liberians.
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African Leaders and World Bank Connived: $43 Billion Interest Paid for $5 Billion Loan

The news report that the World Bank is siphoning billion of dollars from poor countries is alarming. It is disquieting politically and economically, especially for Liberia, because come 2005, voters might end up selecting a president who wishes to be or has been a business partner to the agents of the World Bank.
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The story of the Presidential mandate theory has never been scribed and it did not begin with Liberians or Liberian political foundation but with, according to an adept writer on political subjects, Robert A. Dahl (Political Science Quarterly, vol.105, 1990), an American President, Andrew Jackson.
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Unlike past Thanksgiving celebrations where good food, merrymaking, and memories of meeting family members, relatives, friends of old time, and loved ones excited nostalgia, we were greeted with a shocking and unexpected news of the sudden death of Dr. Harry F. Moniba, former Vice President of the Republic of Liberia, in an automobile accident on U.S. Highway 127 in Lenawee County in the state of Michigan
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On Thursday, November 24, 2004, The Perspective learned with regrets the death of Liberia’s former Vice President Harry Moniba. According to family sources, Dr. Moniba had traveled to Michigan on the eve of the Thanksgiving Day for a political meeting.
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The Liberian political scene could be running amok? This is a discursive and cursory view that is held by many Liberians that I have met and talked to as regards the Liberian Presidential elections.
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After 80 days of heated debate over the National Electoral Reform Bill for the conduct of the ensuing general and presidential elections, the National Transitional Legislative Assembly (NTLA) has finally passed the Bill into law but with certain modifications.
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The National Transitional Government of Liberia, in conjunction with the international community, civil society organizations, and NGOs operating in Liberia, designed a reconstruction agenda of post-war Liberia named result-focused Transitional Framework or RFTF for the Reconstruction of Liberia.
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Some 5,000 extra troops have started to arrive in the Democratic Republic of Congo to reinforce a severely stretched United Nations peacekeeping force
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ISome of the 19,000 people who have fled renewed fighting in Ivory Coast have received their first food aid
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Weah Finally Lets The Cat Out

At long last, following months of speculations that soccer legend and Sports Ambassador, George Manneh Weah, may have interest in the presidency of the country, he has finally taken up the gauntlets for the highest office of the land.
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Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo has accused France of supporting rebels in the renewed civil war.
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The purpose of this piece is two-fold. First, I want to share my observations and comments about Dr. Emmanual T. Dolo’s response to Honorable Bai Gbala’s “Assertions about African Intellectuals in the Diaspora” (Bai Gbala)
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Liberians from Mineral-Rich Counties Need a Fair Share of their Natural Resources – A Popular Demand of 21st Century Liberia

Who authorized the sale of the iron ore in Buchanan? Who’s benefiting from the proceeds of the sale? Of the total sale, how much went to the citizens of Nimba and Grand Bassa counties? Were the former employees paid? Will the local people in mineral rich counties in Liberia EVER benefit directly from their natural resources?
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Thousands Of Ivorians Seek Shelter In Liberia

Electricity, water and telephones, cut off in rebel-held northern Ivory Coast before an army offensive nine days ago, have been restored.
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African leaders have expressed their sadness at the death of the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat.
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Amenities restored in Ivory Coast

BUTUO, Liberia, Nov 12 (AFP) - Panicked Ivory Coast nationals from its western border region are flooding into Liberia to escape mounting tensions in a country which was once the anchor of stability for troubled west Africa.
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COTE D IVOIRE-LIBERIA: Influx of Ivorian refugees puts strain on war-scarred neighbour

MONROVIA, 11 Nov 2004 (IRIN) - Around 5,000 frightened Ivorians have raced across the border into eastern Liberia since the crisis in their homeland erupted last week, putting pressure on a country that is already struggling to recover from its own civil war and threatening regional stability, UN officials said.
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Refugees head home from Guinea

DAKAR, 10 Nov 2004 (IRIN) - The first of around 150,000 Liberians who are to be repatriated from Guinea, where some spent more than a decade in camps, headed home on Wednesday, a UNHCR spokeswoman said.
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UNICCO Receives 50,000 Books ...expects to Construct Learning Center

The United Nimba Citizens Council (UNICCO)-Liberia, has received a 20ft container of books for use by schools in Nimba County. The books were donated by the International Book Bank Inc. based in Baltimore the USA to Nimba citizens residing in that country under the banner of the United Nimba Citizens Council (UNICCO)-USA.
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MALI: Cote d’Ivoire’s crisis paralyses Malian border town

ZEGOUA, 10 Nov 2004 (IRIN) - As Cote’d’Ivoire’s crisis spills over into neighbouring countries, the tiny town of Zegoua on the Malian border has seen its economy grind to a halt in just a matter of days, and fears are spreading
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France has begun evacuating its nationals from Ivory Coast after days of anti-French demonstrations
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Women and Small Business Development in Post-Conflict Liberia

Presentation by Mrs. Quipu Mai Yuan at the just ended LIHEDE Symposium in North Carolina

If the affliction of poverty, Civil War, hunger and environmental problems are to be alleviated in Post-Conflict Liberia. Liberians must find viable ways to involve people in a process of economic growth that can raise both the standard of living and quality of life of our people.
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COTE D IVOIRE: Fresh violence erupts even as Mbeki tries to push peace

ABIDJAN, 9 Nov 2004 (IRIN) - Just hours after South African President Thabo Mbeki visited Cote d'Ivoire to try to revive its battered peace process, French troops fired to disperse protesters on the streets of Abidjan killing at least four people, the Ivorian government said on Tuesday.
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Liberian Fighters Enter Ivory Coast, Refugees Say

MONROVIA (Reuters) - Former fighters from Liberia are crossing into Ivory Coast to work as guns for hire after hostilities resumed in their West African neighbor, civilians fleeing the violence said on Tuesday.
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A Response To Gbai Gbala’s Assertions about African Intellectuals in the Diaspora

Mr. Bai Gbala has written that African scholars living in exile have no right to criticize leaders of their homeland while living abroad. As an exiled journalist and academic who sternly criticized the Doe and Taylor regimes, I take issue with Mr. Gbala’s perspective.
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Exiled African Intellectuals Have the Right to Criticize Misrule in Africa

read with disbelief Bai Gbala’s article, Those Intellectuals… posted on the November 5, 2004 edition of The Perspective Magazine in which he accused African intellectuals and professionals of abandoning the African continent, therefore foreclosing their rights to criticize the misrule in Africa.
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Those Intellectuals …

Recent BBC Focus On Africa program requested Africans on the continent as well as elsewhere in foreign countries to respond to the question of whether or not Africans living abroad, particularly those who posses social, economic, and political knowledge or expertise –
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KIDNAPPERS IN TOWN!

A woman, in her early thirties, was kidnapped Thursday night by a group of men driving under the guise of running commercial transport. In the end, they demanded a ransom for US$500.00 in order to release her.
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UN Will Not Credit Elections Without Bill

Even though the National Elections Commission had submitted the electoral reform bill to the National Transitional Legislative Assembly (NTLA) for passing, the continuous delay in passing the draft legislation appears to be causing uproars among some Liberians as well as the UN
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Mandingo Caucus Raises Peace Torch

In the wake of the weekend violence that left 16 dead and several mosques and churches burnt, the National Mandingo Caucus of Liberia has stressed the need for national co-existence of all tribes in the country
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Wizards, Witches Arrested In Nimba

Our Nimba County correspondent, who witnessed some of the arrests and confession ceremony, said more than half of the approximately 50,000 members have been nabbed across the county.
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Americo-Liberians Rule or Indigenous Rule:
-Which one has significantly benefited Liberia

There are many times when I am made to wonder as to why Liberia, a country of only 3.3 million people, have had to go through terrible times in its 157 years of existence. Liberia is known as a country of freed slaves but one gets confuse when he or she looks at what has transpired in that country since its formation.
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MONROVIA, 1 Nov 2004 (IRIN) - Aid workers have been forced to suspend plans to bring Liberian refugees back home after riots in the capital Monrovia killed at least 16 people in the worst outbreak of violence the West African country has witnessed since its civil war ended a year ago.
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Kwesi Addae from Ghana is part of a team sent to the United States by a group campaigning for social justice, Global Exchange, to observe the conduct of the elections. But as he tells BBC News from Columbus, Ohio, Americans can respond badly to being advised on their system by Africans.
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United Nations peacekeepers in the Liberian capital have arrested up to 250 people following days of unrest in which at least 14 people died.
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Liberia's President Gyude Bryant has imposed an immediate curfew in the capital Monrovia, after heavy fighting spread through the city overnight
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MONROVIA, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Liberia slapped an immediate curfew on the capital Monrovia on Friday after stick-wielding youths rampaged through the costal city, burning buildings, petrol stations and vehicles.
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33 Public Schools Under Renovation in the Southeast

The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) in Harper, Maryland County has commenced rehabilitation works on about 33 public schools in the Southeast of the Country.
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DDRR MEETS HASTY END?

Currently Liberia has the largest United Nations peacekeeping mission in the world. UN authorized the deployment of some 15,000 troops in Liberia to restore order to a country that has known no peace for 14 years.
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Conneh Wants Ja’neh Out

The National chairman of the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD), Sekou Damate Conneh, Jr. has called for the removal of the Cllr. Kabinah Ja’neh as Justice Minister and Attorney General of Liberia
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Roosevelt Johnson Is Dead

Gen. David Roosevelt Johnson, who was head of the Liberian splinter warring group, "United Liberation Movement for Democracy in Liberia (ULIMO-J), is dead
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Scowls On Influence Over Mining Deal

Controversy has arisen over two companies competing to take over mining at the Nimba Range, formerly operated by the LAMCO J. V. Company in Yekepa, Nimba County.
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Chinese Embassy Outlines Top Priority for Liberia

The Chinese Ambassador accredited here, Ambassador Lin songtain says he will exert every effort to assist Liberia become self-sufficient in rice production and turn Liberia into a rice export nation.
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Minister Frowns On Influence Over Mining Deal

The Assistant Labor Minister for Trade Union Affairs has accused some unnamed officials of circumventing the normal procedure for selection of companies that should operate the Liberian mining industry
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NTGL Flexes Muscle

Since an Amnesty International report revealed that certain officials of the defunct Taylor regime were aiding and abetting the former president to maintain his grip on the then teething peace process in Liberia, the identification of the officials and what to do with them has been the obsession of he international community led by the United Nations
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Arrest Warrant Issued Against Journalis

RSF has expressed concern over legal action taken against the independent weekly "The Vanguard Newspaper" and objected to the arrest warrant issued against one of its journalists, after he exposed questionable dealings of influential local businessman and African Development Agency (ADA) director Wendell Macintosh.
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150 More Persons Confirmed HIV/Aids Positive in Liberia

The deadly disease HIV/AIDS is said to be rapidly spreading across the country with many more persons being confirmed positive and registered in just a few months in Monrovia.
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Gov't Orders Urey, Shaw's Assets Frozen

The Government of Liberia through the Ministry of Justice has directed the Lone Star Communication Corporation to freeze with immediate effect any and all shares and assets owned by former Maritime Commissioner Benoni Urey and Mr. Emmanuel Shaw, directly or indirectly or by those acting on their behalf.
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Warning!- IMC Wrath To Fall On Sabotage

Since the seating of the government, things have not been that pleasant, especially among those who carved the peace plan and brought the government into being.
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No More 'Rice Politics'

Democracy, its proponents say, is the rule of the majority. But the question advocates of good governance in Africa have been asking is, "Which majority: the enlightened or illiterate?
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Brumskine Finally Quits LUP

Reports reaching our news desk says Charles Brumskin has resigned as the standard-bearer of the Liberia Unification Party LUP).
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LPP Predicts Security Lapses After UNMIL's Departure

The National Chairman of the Liberia People's Party, Dusty Wolokollie, predicts security lapses after the departure of the United Nations Mission in Liberia unless Liberians themselves are made involved in the arrangement provided for by the Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA) for Liberia.
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US$500 Million Investment Seeks Liberia

The world's second largest steel production company has expressed interest in investing more than US$500 million in Liberia's mining industry.
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Liberia: Government Freezes Assets of Charles Taylor Relatives And Cronies

Liberia's transitional government has finally frozen the assets of former president Charles Taylor and several of his relatives and associates, seven months after such sanctions were ordered by the UN Security Council.
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LURD's National Chairman on Transitional Govt's First Year

Lurd's National Chairman Sekou Damate Conneh raps On the NTGL's one year in office
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Info. Minister Assesses NTGL's One Year

Information Minister Dr. C. William Allen has been explaining the achievements and problems of the National Transitional Government of Liberia as it turns one year today.
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After One Yr. in Office - NTGL's Successes, Failures

On October 14, last year, the National Transitional Government of Liberia (NTGL) took over the reins of leadership of this country in keeping with the peace deal signed by parties to the Liberian conflict at the end of a marathon peace talks in Accra, Ghana.
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14 Arrested for Sunday's Violence

The United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) has arrested 14 persons in connection with the riot that occurred last Sunday at the Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports (SKD) complex in Paynesville, outside of Monrovia.
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Liberia: Rebels Are Slow to Disarm in Southeast, UN Says

Rebel fighters are proving slow to come forward for disarmament in the far southeast of Liberia because they hope to get more money by handing their weapons in over the border in nearby Cote d'Ivoire, Major General Joseph Owonibi, the deputy commander of UN peacekeeping forces in Liberia, said on Wednesday.
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Former Lamco to Reawaken

A British/Indian Company has successfully won the right to manage the facilities of the Liberia Mining Company(LIMINCO), and has since began cleaning the facilities to begin full scale operations at the institution.
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About Libya Paying Sierra Leone!

Bishop Joseph Christian Humper's TRC Report has singled out Libya of having to pay reparation to Sierra Leone for training top rebel commanders who played key roles in Sierra Leone's brutal civil conflict.
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Neufville Chides NTLA for Corruption, Tyranny

Even though he is suspended, bereft of immunities and barred from entering the Parliament Building where he has been working for almost a year, it appears that Mr. Rufus Neufville is by and large invigorated and strengthened to advocate for the youth.
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Kenyan ecologist wins Nobel prize

Kenyan environmentalist and human rights campaigner Wangari Maathai has won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Decentralization of Political And Administrative Power in Liberia

This is a revision and expansion of my Paper delivered at "Conference Vision 2024" on the future of Liberia, held at the Unity Conference Center, Virginia, Liberia, in July 1998. Sponsored by the Government of Liberia, the Conference brought together members of the Diplomatic Corps, friendly foreign and Liberian businesspeople,
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Shad Tubman Joins the Race

The race for the presidency continues to gain momentum with the announcement of yet another presidential hopeful making a debut. Shad Tubman, the 71-year old man whose father William V.S. Tubman ruled the country for 27 years consecutively and whose father-in-father, William R. Tolbert, Jr.,
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Governance Reform Commission Presents Second Report

The Governance Reform Commission (GRC) has presented its Second Quarterly Report to the National Transitional Legislative Assembly (NTLA), in which it pointed out that national priorities have been placed up side down..
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Lawmaker On Three-Month Suspension

The Youth Representative Rufus Neufville is facing the wrath of National Transitional Legislative Assembly (NTLA) with a three-month suspension from the plenary of that body, while Bong County Representative Joseph Cornormia and John Gbellie of Bomi back out from the protest for 26 public buses and apologize to escape anger of that body.
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Presidency Freaks Must 'Hang Heads' (Editorial)

THERE IS GENERAL agreement amongst Liberians and friends of Liberia that the nation's socio-political problems will only be solved by Liberians themselves through the election of a responsible government.
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Mano, Gio Destroying Mandingos' Property

It seems that the hubbub between Mandingoes and the Gios and Manos in Nimba is far from ending if information from the county is anything to go back.
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Iron Ore Saga Deepens As NTGL Comes Under Fire

The long standing controversy over the sale of the residual of iron ore at the Port of Buchanan is gradually deepening as six human rights and pro-democracy institutions have accused the Transitional Government of undermining the rule of law by its failure to adequately inform the public about government's operations reference to the iron deal
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U.S. Presents $200M AFL Reform Package

The United States Army has presented a $200 million budget to the Liberian government for the restructuring of its army, transitional government chair Gyude Bryant told the nation yesterday.
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Liberia, S/Leone Exchange Mercenaries

Liberia’s controversial ex-president, Charles Ghankay Taylor, is currently facing criminal charges for his role in the spate of random killings, rape, and maiming that characterized the Sierra Leonean decade-long civil war led by Corporal Foday Sankoh of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF).
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Security Council Says Conditions Still Not Right for Lifting Liberia Sanctions

While Liberia has made progress in conforming to international regimes for its diamond and timber trade, the conditions are still not ripe for lifting sanctions against those industries in the West African nation, the President of the United Nations Security Council said today.
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Lots of Money Disappear From Freeport

In the wake of widespread allegations that corruption is much alive in the National Transitional Government, Chairman Charles Gyude Bryant has disclosed that a "lot of money? has disappeared from the Freeport of Monrovia in recent times.
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Brumskine Prepares to Quit LUP

One of Liberia's several presidential aspirants, Cllr. Charles Walker Brumskine, is said to preparing to resign from the Liberian Unification Party in the wake of political maneuvering within the party's hierarchy to dampen his chances in next year's elections.
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FOB Accuses Bryant, Sherman

The Friends of Brumskine (FOB) has pointed accusing fingers at NTGL Chairman C. Gyude Bryant and the Liberia Action Party's presidential hopeful, Cllr. H. Varney Sherman, of being behind the rift within the Liberia Unification Party (LUP).
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Ul Faculty Threatens Boycott of Classes Today

The University of Liberia Faculty Association (ULFA), says it will not permit National Transitional Government of Liberia's Chairman Charles Gyude Bryant to induct Dr. Al-Hassan Conteh as president of the university as he had vowed.
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UNICCO Digest

Nimba Supt. Forms Economic Advisory C'ttee

Liberia is at a Brink of Irreversible Environmental/Ecological Impotency

POST CONFLICT LIBERIAN FOREIGN POLICY-A BALANCING ACT

Women! Wake up! Control your destiny! Act now! - (Press Release)

New UN Panel Report Out

Taylor's Money Trail Raises Eyebrows

Nimbaians Want Say in Negotiations

UNICCO Wants Previous Pacts Ratified

Charles Bennie Chased Out Of Office

Tough Choices Await Liberia Financial Trusteeship, or Slide into Failed State?

Speaker Dweh Tastes Backlash of ‘Callous Rule’ Trapped in Human Waves, Vehicle Tyres Deflated

Liberia Suffers From Dysfunctional Economy, UN Panel Says

Bryant Goes To Sanniquelle

Inefficiency At Freeport

Deal With Corrupt Officials

THE CANDIDATURE OF GEORGE WEAH FOR THE LIBERIAN PRESIDENCY: A BALANCED VIEW.

LIBERIA: United States threatens to cut aid if elections are delayed

GSA In Turmoil Again

A Sad History of Liberian Carpetbaggers

African Leaders and World Bank Connived: $43 Billion Interest Paid for $5 Billion Loan

THE MYSTIQUE OF THE LIBERIAN PRESIDENTIAL MANDATE

Dr. Harry F. Moniba, Liberia’s former Vice President: Seen from afar yet familiar and honorable

Liberia’s Former Vice President Harry Moniba Is Dead

WHY CAUSAL POLITICS AFFECTS A NIMBA PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATURE IN LIBERIAN PRESIDENTIAL RACE

NTLA Finally Enacts Electoral Bill

NTGL SPENDS US$2M ON SECURITY

Boost for DR Congo peace force

Food aid reaches Ivorian refugees

Weah Finally Lets The Cat Out

Ivorian leader hits out at France

IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO BE RIGHT-Observations and Comments on Dr. Emmanuel T. Dolo’s Response to Bai Gbala’s Article on African Intellectuals in the Diaspora

Liberians from Mineral-Rich Counties Need a Fair Share of their Natural Resources – A Popular Demand of 21st Century Liberia

Thousands Of Ivorians Seek Shelter In Liberia

Africans salute Yasser Arafat

Amenities restored in Ivory Coast

COTE D IVOIRE-LIBERIA: Influx of Ivorian refugees puts strain on war-scarred neighbour

LIBERIA:

Refugees head home from Guinea

UNICCO Receives 50,000 Books ...expects to Construct Learning Center

MALI: Cote d’Ivoire’s crisis paralyses Malian border town

French flown out of Ivory Coast

Women and Small Business Development in Post-Conflict Liberia

COTE D IVOIRE: Fresh violence erupts even as Mbeki tries to push peace

Liberian Fighters Enter Ivory Coast, Refugees Say

A Response To Gbai Gbala’s Assertions about African Intellectuals in the Diaspora

Exiled African Intellectuals Have the Right to Criticize Misrule in Africa

Those Intellectuals …

KIDNAPPERS IN TOWN!

UN Will Not Credit Elections Without Bill

Mandingo Caucus Raises Peace Torch

Wizards, Witches Arrested In Nimba

Americo-Liberians Rule or Indigenous Rule: -Which one has significantly benefited Liberia

LIBERIA: Riots kill 16, delay repatriation of refugees

An African observer's view of the US polls

Mass arrests after Liberia riots

City curfew after Liberian riots

Liberia slaps curfew on capital after riot