Liberia's Finance Minister Antoinette Sayeh faces
a huge problem as she steers the country into qualifiying for
the World Bank's and International Monetary Fund's debt reduction
programme by the end of next year: some US$1.5 billion of commercial
debt...
President Johnson-Sirleaf's enemies have come out in the open with a raft of allegations and threats of military action
The technocratic President is battling to keep her reforms
on track and to outplay the kleptocrats and nationalists
Liberia's troubles affect its whole region. During the civil
war, Liberian mercenaries joined the fight in Sierra Leone
and Côte d'Ivoire. President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
is now warning ex-fighters not to enter Guinea, for fear
that the unrest t...
Edwin Melvin Snowe's battle to keep his position as
Speaker of the House of Representatives is becoming an embarrassing
cause célèbre as he claims the plot against
him was orchestrated from President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's
office. Snowe...
The post-war economy is easier to manage than Monrovia's politicians
In its last days, Charles Gyude Bryant’s National Transitional Government of Liberia (NTGL) signed a US$900 million, 25-year deal with the world’s largest steel company, British-registered, Indian-owned and managed Mittal Steel. That was in August 2005. O...
Dutch police are investigating Mittal Steel's US$900
million deal to mine iron ore in Liberia following a slew of allegations
by politicians and trades unionists about the contract award.The 25-year concession agreed would give Mittal control of a huge ...
The coming trial will set a world precedent and embarrass politicians
in Africa and the West
The new government blends technocrats, dodgy names and good
intentions
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