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Hopes are high that two of West Africa’s most war-devastated states – Liberia and Sierra Leone – will both see substantial turnarounds in 2008. Both governments have in place impressive teams of technical specialists under Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Sierra Leone’s newly-elected Ernest Bai Koroma with plans for regional development cooperation. Many of the senior officials of both governments know each other and have worked together in the past....

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Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Ernest Bai Koroma, Guinea, Lansana Kouyaté, Lansana Conté, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, German, Angela Merkel, United States, Hillary Clinton, Antoinette Sayeh, Zeinab Bangura, David Carew