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Liberia

Population: 3.4 million
GNI: $470 million
Debt: $1100 million
Overview: Political logjams have slowed post-conflict reconstruction, signalling the end of a honeymoon as government finances struggle while waiting for debt relief.

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  • Vol 49 No 7
  • 28/03/2008

Nightmare on Broad Street

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...

  • Vol 48 No 16
  • 03/08/2007

Rumours and plots

President Johnson-Sirleaf's enemies have come out in the open with a raft of allegations and threats of military action

  • Vol 48 No 6
  • 16/03/2007

Referee in a tug-of-war

The technocratic President is battling to keep her reforms on track and to outplay the kleptocrats and nationalists

  • Vol 48 No 6
  • 16/03/2007

The neighbours are unstable

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...

  • Vol 48 No 3
  • 02/02/2007

Snowe white-out

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...

  • Vol 47 No 25
  • 15/12/2006

Economy up, politics down

The post-war economy is easier to manage than Monrovia's politicians

  • Vol 47 No 25
  • 15/12/2006

Testing Mittal's steel

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...

  • Vol 47 No 13
  • 23/06/2006

Dutch probe

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 ...

  • Vol 47 No 8
  • 14/04/2006

Taylor's trajectories

The coming trial will set a world precedent and embarrass politicians in Africa and the West

  • Vol 47 No 2
  • 20/01/2006

Hope at last

The new government blends technocrats, dodgy names and good intentions

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