Liberia

Liberia

Population: 4.0 million
GDP: $900 million
Debt: $290% of GDP
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Delays to mining and agriculture projects, corruption concerns and the conclusions of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission threaten President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s bid for a second term in 2011 elections.

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  • Vol 47 No 2
  • 20/01/2006

In cabinet

Antoinette Sayeh, Minister of Finance: economist, ran World Bank programme in Benin, securing debt relief under Heavily Indebted Poor Countries scheme. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf hopes to do the same for Liberia, with external debt at US$3.5 billion. Western...

  • Vol 46 No 23
  • 18/11/2005

Madam President

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has the political support and economic experience to succeed

  • Vol 46 No 23
  • 18/11/2005

Off-road rage

Members of parliament are angry because the Chairman of the National Transitional Government of Liberia, Gyude Bryant, has refused to sign a bill allowing them to keep their government cars. One of the first acts of the all-party government formed und...

  • Vol 46 No 21
  • 21/10/2005

Penalty shoot out

Soccer star George Weah kept his election lead and the dealmakers are hard at work

  • Vol 46 No 19
  • 23/09/2005

The soccer vote

After 14 years of war, Liberians mistake a footballer for a politician

  • Vol 46 No 19
  • 23/09/2005

Welcome to the world

Liberia re-entered the international system on 16 September after two decades of lawlessness. At a grand signing ceremony in the United Nations Headquarters in New York, the Chairman of the National Transitional Government of Liberia, Charles Gyude Br...

  • Vol 46 No 17
  • 26/08/2005

Stuck in the Mittal

A race between two brothers for a mammoth ore contract stirs political interest

  • Vol 46 No 9
  • 29/04/2005

Double Wamco

Six months before elections, ministers have signed a deal on a trade in banned diamonds

  • Vol 46 No 9
  • 29/04/2005

Warlord on the loose

Charles Taylor, Liberia's exiled warlord, stands accused of crimes across the region. A 30-page confidential report to the internationally financed Special Court in Sierra Leone alleges that he masterminded an assassination attempt against Guinea's Pr...

  • Vol 45 No 21
  • 22/10/2004

New model army

Africa Confidential has learned that California-based private military contractor DynCorp is about to be awarded a contract to restructure the Liberian national army. Industry sources say the company is still awaiting its funding.

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