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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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