Liberia

Liberia

Population: 4.0 mn.
GDP: 1.8 bn.
Debt: 0.2 bn.
Overview:

The record of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf's government on economic policy and attracting investment will continue to win international praise but domestic doubts will grow. Liberian voters are looking beyond reconstruction and consolidation. Gripes about vested interests in the legislature and accusations of nepotism are likely to increase.
 

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  • Vol 53 No 23
  •  16th November 2012

What price the Unity Party

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 President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf’s claimed nepotism.

  • Vol 53 No 18
  •  7th September 2012

Not out of the woods

Solve one problem and another appears, which is why Liberia still needs the UN and its peacekeepers

  • Vol 53 No 14
  •  6th July 2012

Killers united

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 he posted on the internet before his deadly attacks, Breivik mentioned a v...

  • Vol 53 No 13
  •  22nd June 2012

Warlords at work

Coup plots in Côte d’Ivoire are linked to the murder of United Nations peacekeepers in the east of the country, officials in Abidjan say.

  • Vol 53 No 12
  •  8th June 2012

Warning to future Taylors

Most people implicated in the warlord president’s crimes have escaped justice but his sentence will still deter others

  • Vol 53 No 8
  •  13th April 2012

Keeping it in the family

The President rejects charges of nepotism after appointing her eldest son to head the state oil company

  • Vol 53 No 5
  •  2nd March 2012

Timis drills deep

Controversial British-based mining entrepreneur Frank Timis’s African Petroleum Corporation announced a ‘significant’ oil find off the Liberian coast on 21 February.

  • Vol 53 No 4
  •  17th February 2012

Ellen's green cred

President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is taking action on her green credentials after featuring in a New York Times piece headlined ‘A Nobel Laureate’s Problem at Home’. The op-ed accused her of being soft on incoming multinationals and hard on the communities ...

  • Vol 53 No 3
  •  3rd February 2012

A low-key second term

The President promises an inclusive government to foster national unity and prevent unrest

  • Vol 52 No 23
  •  18th November 2011

New challenges after messy elections

The President won easily but the damage to her authority and to political stability will need careful repair

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