Liberia

Mercenaries from Chad and Liberia -- who were once trained and funded by Qaddafi -- are reported to have come to his aid by the hundreds.

Simply because political leadership in Liberia had always been a "boys' club" didn't mean it was right, and I was not deterred.

The fact that educated expatriates like the Moore sisters think of these youngsters in Liberia is a ray of light in this struggle, he adds.

Liberia's five-person delegation was held up in Nigeria for a week before the Polish Embassy there granted visas.

High Court in London has ruled the two Caribbean registered investment funds are entitled to claim payment of a large debt owed by Liberia.

After seven years of peace, Liberia's economy is only slowly getting back on its feet.

We were in the heart of West Point, the slum of Monrovia, Liberia, and arguably the densest slum in all of West Africa.

Currently, there are more than 600 persons incorporated in the army, elements who came out of the forest, elements who came from Liberia.

She says flights to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea will have to be cut by the end of the month because of lack of money.

Lights were restored to Monrovia's street corners just months ago as part of an international effort to help Liberia rebuild.

As an actor in Liberia's history as it has unfolded over the last 40 years, I have seen these characteristics come full circle.

Liberia's president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, portrayed her country as a sick child in need of her care during her campaign five years ago.

Sierra Leone's new president visits neighboring countries of Guinea and Liberia in a goodwill trip to help strengthen relations.

Mr Bush and his wife will visit Benin, Ghana, Liberia, Rwanda and Tanzania.

Liberia is one of the few countries in Africa that have not been colonized by Europe.

It has signed only a memorandum of understanding with Liberia, which potentially stands to gain as much as Guinea from iron ore exports.

Liberia is one of the countries on his itinerary, along with Benin, Tanzania, Rwanda and Ghana.

After decades of mismanagement, corruption and a 14-year-long war, Liberia is in a worse state than it was in the 1970s.

I was born in London before my parent took me back to Liberia when i was a kid.

Liberia showed the most progress , jumping more than 10 points on the index , to move up to 38 th place among the 48 countries surveyed .

For a start, Mr Taylor is being tried not for atrocities that occurred in his homeland, Liberia, but in neighbouring Sierra Leone.

Just as its neighbor Sierra Leone, Liberia was known for its blood diamonds during the civil war.

After many years of war and misrule, Liberia, the west African state founded by freed American slaves, is a shattered nation.

Agriculture Minister Christopher Toe urged other countries to help save Liberia's crops and other vegetation that the caterpillars feed on.

NEXT month Liberia is due to go to the polls, almost exactly eight years after the end of a civil war that wreaked havoc across the country.

The United States supports basic education in Liberia by training teachers and founding the Accelerated Learning Program for young students.

She hopes that words and books will serve these children as they served her and her sisters, when they were in hiding in Liberia.

The head of the election commission in Liberia has rejected claims from opposition parties that Tuesday's presidential poll was fraudulent.

Liberia's recent history is marked by years of conflict and political instability.

Liberia's civil war took a heavy toll on civilians, infrastructure and social services, including health care.

That country was also dragged into Liberia and Sierra Leone's wars as refugees -- and armed fighters -- fled over the border.

Among the countries surveyed, this kind of everyday corruption was most prevalent in Liberia.

Taking into account the specificity of the lot, is the poor quality of large-scale development in Liberia.

Fond African memories of flying helicopters over Liberia, a ship on fire off the coast of Benin, two aborted take-offs in Northern Ethiopia.

The Bank is also working with Nike Foundation and Liberia to empower adolescent girls through a job training and transition-to-work program.

Eight Chinese peacekeepers donated blood for an ectopic pregnant Liberia woman who suffered internal rupture and lost of blood .

The overwhelming response to the cash-for-work project in northeastern Liberia is just one sign that the food crisis is not over.

The United States has refused to send peacekeeping forces to Liberia until President Taylor steps down.

A third worker of the same charity was arrested in Liberia earlier this year and is fighting extradition to the US.

Those with cars and foreign accounts have been popping over the border into Liberia or Ghana to stock up on cash.

Back then, Liberia was a byword for uncontrolled and environmentally devastating logging.

I am from Liberia in West Africa. am the only child of my parents and am studying law in the university before my parents past away.

She took over as president after years of civil wear had left Liberia in ruins.

In Liberia's presidential run-off Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the incumbent, was poised to be declared the winner.

He is attending the trial as part of a BBC project to provide daily radio reports to audiences in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

But projects have also been hampered by lack of skilled personnel willing to come to Liberia to work, Palsson says.

But worst affected country so far is Liberia, which ended its own civil war only in 2003.

The second would be a new railway to carry iron ore through Liberia to Didia.

The Ministry of Health, Liberia has reported one additional confirmed case of Yellow fever.

This year, Botswana, Burundi, Chad, Eritrea, Gabon, Liberia, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Togo will also have training programs.

World Vision administered a programme funded by the US Agency for International Development to deliver surplus wheat and oil to Liberia.

Once again my name is Miss Marisa Johnson, My Nationality is Liberia in West Africa But I'm a British Citizen.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts , liberia yous energy and inspires your hopes.

Many orphans also are adopted from South Korea, Vietnam, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, India, Liberia, Colombia, the Philippines, Haiti and Taiwan.

Rapid needs assessments have been completed for Burkina Faso, Burundi, Liberia, Mali, Sierra Leone, and Togo.

Subsidising the price of rice would only promote corruption and smuggling, says Yuri Sobolev, the IMF's Liberia country representative.

In Liberia, Sheik Ousman Konneh said he was very happy that President Obama is rebuilding ties with Islam.

By wearing Afrocentric clothes, she appeals to many of Liberia's ethnic groups and embraces elements of a common regional heritage.

Liberia, "land of the free, " was founded by free African Americans and freed slaves from the United States in the 1800s.

Regardless of intentions, Liberia's government is too scrapped for cash to provide students with the necessary resources.

Back in Liberia, Lewis C. Dogar ponders life during his country's civil war.

Liberia is eager to profit from its diamond mines, but faces sanctions for failing to halt illegal trading.

Senegal in the African zone qualifiers in the middle of the sixth group, the rival group including Algeria , Gambia and Liberia.

The president and Mrs. Bush visited Benin, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana, and Liberia last week.

Today, thanks in part to these courageous women, Liberia is a young democracy that has elected the first female head of state in Africa.

Liberia and Sierra Leone have been pulled back from the brink of utter chaos in recent years, and both are now at peace.

Post-conflict security assistance, as seen recently in Comoros, the Central African Republic and Liberia, also has potential.

She notes more than 90 percent of Liberia's population lives on less than $2 a day. This makes health care unaffordable.

Recent visitors to courts in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New Orleans have included delegations from Liberia, Brazil, and Albania.

Diamonds from Liberia have been carefully investigated by the KPCS.

Still a country today, Liberia deals with conflict between descendants of African Americans and indigenous tribes.

In 1980 the president of Liberia was overthrown and a period of instability and civil war followed.

"Fighters have their own unpredictable agendas and retribution in Liberia is a danger, " says, an analyst in Monrovia, Liberia's capital.

Most African nations, including Ethiopia, Liberia, Mali and Uganda, will benefit from voting share increases.

After Tanzania, the president visits Rwanda, Ghana, and Liberia.

By 1847, Joseph Jenkins Roberts had become a leader in the colony and felt Liberia was ready for independence.

The prosecution says that Mr Taylor controlled everything throughout the conflict, even after becoming Liberia's president in 1997.

But it has had some successes too: in Angola, Mozambique, Namibia and more recently in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Less than 10 years ago, a generation of children was born to subsistence farmers in Liberia, a country torn by civil war and conflict.

He expanded VOA's broadcasting ability by setting up transmitter devices in countries including Liberia and the Philippines.

When Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf became president of Liberia in 2006, the country was ravaged by 15 years of civil war.

Taylor was a warlord in neighbouring Liberia when the civil conflicts began in Sierra Leone.

The kit was tested in Chad, Liberia, Congo Brazzaville, Jamaica, Guyana, Maldives and Iraq before being launched.

Liberia and Haiti are two important places to begin to make good on the Bush administration's pledge to spread democracy.

China will continue to resolutely support Liberia's peace process and economic reconstruction.

They were first reported in Bong County in northern Liberia on January fifteenth.

Violence in Liberia before the run-off exposed the weakness of the country's security forces and their lack of discipline.

Sexual violence was a characterizing feature of the 14-year long civil war in Liberia.

The head of Liberia's election commission has said that the run-off vote will go ahead as planned.

Eventually, opposing forces in Liberia were pushed to hold peace talks in Ghana.

Eventually, opposing forces in Liberia were pushed to hold peace talks in Ghana.

Laura Bush visited Rwanda, Tanzania, Sou th Africa, Liberia, Ghana and Nigeria on two previous African trips.

Sierra Leone is located in Western Africa bordering the North Atlantic Ocean between Guinea and Liberia .

The capital and largest city of Liberia, in the northwest part of the country on the Atlantic Ocean.

while Greece prefers the Mediterranean islands of Malta and Cyprus; Liberia's flag flies on many German vessels.

AFRICOM is supposed to set up shop on the continent by Oct. 1, but some countries resist hosting it (Liberia, though, is willing).

That could help stabilize a region still recovering from conflict in Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, and Liberia.

A young entrepreneur in Liberia who builds a new warehouse must wait on average 586 days to connect it to the power grid.

Benin, Liberia and Sierra Leone are the latest 3 of the 13[1] highest risk African countries to carry out preventive campaigns.

Graham Greene once wrote that during travels in Liberia's troubled hinterland he "learnt to love life again" .

A stable Liberia is a critical factor affecting the stability of the entire region.

In countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia and Burundi, the percentage of population connected is around 0. 5%.

Instead, Liberia was founded and colonized by the slaves who escaped from America.

State-owned companies are bargain-hunting for copper and iron ore in more stable places like Zambia and Liberia.

Liberia had been torn apart by civil strife for decades.

When Liberia was liberated; when Congress passed the emergency fund for AIDS relief; when the Syrian forces left Lebanon.

As my first term as the president of Liberia comes to an end, I will be standing for re-election.

He will be the first Chinese leader to visit Liberia since the two countries reestablished diplomatic relations in 2003.

A child soldier asks a boy to open his suitcase on April 14, 1996, at a checkpoint in Monrovia, Liberia.

Take Liberia, for instance, which in 2010 ranked 162 out of 169 countries on the United Nations Human Development Index.

Ms Johnson-Sirleaf became president of Liberia in 2005, and is Africa's first and only elected female leader.

Secretary Clinton addressed Liberia's National Assembly in Monrovia.

On the same day, Wen Jiabao also met with Foreign Minister of Liberia Nimley. The two sides exchanged views on China-Liberia relations.

The World Bank remains committed to assist Liberia in reviving its economy and advancing human and social development.

People have been pushed off land in countries like Ethiopia, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia and Zambia.

Leymah Gbowee has worked to mobilize women across ethnic and religious dividing lines to bring end to the long war in Liberia.

Both Liberia and Haiti lack electricity service, even in their capital cities.

In a recent post in Global Voices Ndesanjo Macha highlighted some more bloggers from Liberia.

Li said that the inauguration of Liberia's new President today has opened a new chapter in the Liberian history.

Liberia's Lebanese are unable to buy property and are banned from 26 industries, but simultaneous patronage by officials is common.

Liberia's Lebanese are unable to buy property and are banned from 26 industries, but simultaneous patronage by officials is common.

A child belonging to the United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy takes a smoke break on Oct. 30, 1992, in Monrovia.

WHEN Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was elected president of Liberia in 2005, she promised to step down as head of state after one six-year term.

Earlier numbers were estimated purely on the rolls in Africa in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Liberia gave birth to many children, but every child born on a Kronos been eaten.

Kosovo, Sierra Leone and Liberia all showed that outsiders can in fact help avert catastrophes.

In another development, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has met with Liberia's main rebel leader.

He says such peace-keeping efforts benefit not only Liberia, but help keep the peace throughout the region.

In the past year, he has spent about 25 per cent of his time travelling, as far afield as Indonesia, Ghana and Liberia.

Rwanda, Liberia, South Africa, Gabon, Nigeria and many others have already pleged financial aid.

Rwanda, Liberia, South Africa, Gabon, Nigeria and many others have already pleged financial aid.

In the past few months, women have been elected the leaders of Germany, Liberia and Chile.

Among this year's notable results are Liberia and Sierra Leone, which improved the most.

In 2005, the women of Liberia strapped their babies to their backs and moved en masse to elect Africa's first ever elected female President.

Liberia ranks 138 on the 180-nation corruption index established by the good-governance group Transparency International.

Ms Gbowee is an activist responsible for organising the peace movement that brought an end to the second Liberia civil war in 2003.

Just three months ago, in March 2010, Ms. Ezekwesili visited Liberia and announced additional financial and technical support.

He had also produced films and news reports from Darfur and Liberia.

Mr Bush will also travel to Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana, and Liberia .

The relationship between Harvard and Liberia is thus secured and in good hands!

A teddy-bear-backpack-toting child soldier points his gun at a photographer in Monrovia, Liberia on June 27, 2003.

Diamonds from Liberia are mostly conflict-free.

Elections in Liberia are an ideological vacuum.

The trial is being followed closely in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Liberia is the oldest independent country in Africa (established 847).

Ivorian English teacher Yves Beh Bah came to Liberia through Guinea.

All mainstream offshore banking centres have committed themselves to the OECD rules, as have exotic upstarts such as Liberia and Brunei.

Only a decade ago countries such as Sierra Leone and Liberia were bywords for anarchy and bloodshed.

Eight thousand UN troops are stationed in Liberia.

The first cycle of six books is dedicated to Liberia and their father.

My name is Mrs Blessing Kabana a nationality of Liberia .

In countries like Liberia and Nigeria the numbers have hardly budged since 1999.

So where does the fascination for Liberia come from?

Regional forces have previously intervened in west Africa to prop up governments under threat, such as those in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

As the 3rd poorest country in the world, Liberia has an unemployment rate of 85%.

Young rebel fighters from the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy militant group patrol Sept. 15, 2002, in Voinjama, Liberia.

Gadhafi also supplied arms, training and finance to rebels in Liberia and Gambia, and invaded Chad from 1980-1989.

Just west of Ivory Coast lies Liberia and its roughly 3. 5 million inhabitants.

It was 1964, and my parents and I had moved to Beirut from Liberia. I was starting to learn English in school.

The Jiechu band comes from West Africa - Liberia in 2003. firstly it consist of Yima , Maria , Oliver and Denny.

Liberia's Poverty Reduction Strategy was approved in March 2008.

Charles Taylor invaded Liberia in 1989 with 150 men armed primarily with Soviet AK-47s, allegedly purchased through arms dealer Viktor Bout.

Wars employing child soldiers, such as those in Angola, Liberia, and Nepal, have ended; the numbers have surely shrunk to match.

Such workers may view Liberia as too risky, he adds.

The people of Liberia, for example, show that even after years of war, great progress can be achieved.

Her Women For Peace movement is credited with helping end Liberia's war in 2003.

After 2 months of civil war, Liberia has been plunged into civil conflict stalemate.

The conflict, which finally ended in 2003, left more than 200, 000 people dead and Liberia's finances and infrastructure in ruins.

The hapless states, like Liberia, want help, and sometimes they can be helped.

A Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy rebel child soldier walks past two U. S. Marines in Monrovia, Liberia on Aug.

Indeed, Liberia is open for business with America and the world.

The wreck itself is a boat from Guinea or Liberia that hit a sandbank here at some time in the 1970s.

Because of government action, he continues, rice in Liberia is cheaper than in neighboring countries.

Others lost their lives in sedan, C? te d'Ivoire, Liberia and Timor-Leste.

Countries such as Eritrea, Niger, Comoros, Haiti and Liberia are particularly affected.

Founded in 1817, Liberia is Africa's oldest republic.

They'd send us to Liberia. Down the salt mines.

He says one prime example is Liberia, which is recovering from a long civil war.

An estimated 79, 000 Ivorian refugees still live in Liberia and up to 24, 000 Liberian refugees in Ivory Coast.

In preparation for this Address, I was pleasantly surprised to learn how far back Liberia's connection to Harvard goes.

Liberia is recovering from a brutal 14-year civil war which ended in 2003.

Over two decades after they left Liberia, the Moore sisters now lead successful lives in America.

Now, FAO is attempting to assist 60, 000 IDRs in Ivory Coast and some other refugees from Ivory Coast who have fled to Liberia.

I did the bulk of my business in Liberia.

Wars in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Liberia have become especially infamous for their use of child soldiers.

What is your vision for the relationship between Liberia and the U. S. ? Andy Ohiri, HOUSTON.

ABritish citizen who lived in New York, he hadcovered conflicts with sensitivity in Liberia, Afghanistan, Darfur and, inrecent weeks, Libya.

Inside Liberia there is asphalt from the border all the way to Monrovia.

In Liberia, monthly school feeding has been provided to 60, 000 children since October 2008.

Liberia: 703 cases including 29 deaths (CFR 4. 1%) have been reported for the period from 1 to 21 August, including Sinoe County.

The study measured trees in 79 areas of intact forest across 10 African countries from Liberia to Tanzania.

At that time, Liberia was a colony owned by a group of people in the United States.

In 2008, Peace Corps volunteers are returning to Rwanda after a 15-year absence and to Liberia to work in education.

In Liberia last week, I heard how people have stopped purchasing imported rice by the bag.

Last year Delta Air Lines added Monrovia, Liberia's capital, as a destination, as did Air France.

The United States is Liberia's largest bilateral donor, providing almost $230m last year.

I am proud that Liberia became a beacon of hope in Africa.

Freedom House, a Washington-based advocacy group, last year ranked Singapore 151st in the world in press freedom, behind Liberia and Iraq.

With cautious optimism, it is my hope that I will continue to lead Liberia to consolidate and realize the dividends of peace.

Have you heard of Liberia before?

Gbarnga, Liberia: A young mother waits for her son to be checked at a health centre

Mrs Johnson-Sirleaf said Mr Kouwenhoven, known in Liberia as "Mr Guus" , "did great harm to our country" .

Pavarotti & Friends For The Children Of Liberia

Xiamen University Cultural Performance Troupe Holds Performances at the "Confucius Institute Grand Spring Festival Gala" in Liberia

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Intergovernmental Group for the Liberia Conference;

Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Liberia;

Inter-Agency Programme for Community Reintegration and Peace-building for Liberia;

Chinese peacekeepers in Liberia awarded International Peace Medal

Chinese peacekeepers set out to Liberia

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Mechanism for Returning Liberia to the Abuja Agreement; Accra Mechanism;

Occupational prevention of AIDS of medical staff of UN peace-keeping army's grade two hospital in Liberia

Snapshots of Chinese peacekeeping transport group to Liberia in training

Introspection on ECOWAS'Peacekeeping Mission to Liberia

United Nations Consolidated Inter-Agency Appeal for Liberia;

Liberia Water and Sewage Corporation;

National Insurance Corporation of Liberia;

Triumphant news about Chinese peacekeepers in Liberia

Clausewitz and African War: Politics and Strategy in Liberia and Somalia

An Investigation on AIDS Knowledge of Chinese Peacekeepers in Liberia and Effects of Relevant Health Education

A Survey of Sexual Psychology and Attitude of Chinese Peace-keepers in Liberia

In countries like Liberia and Nigeria the numbers have hardly budged since

I am David Tonkin , 33 years old with to kids of 7 and 5 yrs a citizen of Liberia .

Batch of PLA peacekeeping troops to Liberia returns with honor

Ad Hoc Special Conference to Support the Peace Process in Liberia;

Agreement on interim governance of Liberia;

Liberia has recovered from its long nightmare but still has a long way to go

The sleeping status of Chinese Peace-Keeping Force in Liberia

International Air Services of Liberia

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National Council of Elders for Peace and Unity for Liberia;

People Democratic Party of Liberia,

IECOM; International Contact Group on Liberia;

their work on women's rights and peace-building in Liberia;

Ad Hoc Elections Commission of Liberia;

Union of Former Legislators of Liberia;

MEND; Ad Hoc Special Conference on Liberia;

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Inside Liberia's new garment district

Liberia Titanic's Coal Silver Coin, Proof

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