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Liberia
Population: 4.3 mn.
GDP: 1.0 bn.
Debt: 2.0 bn.
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After fractious elections in November President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf risks alienating her Union Party loyalists by giving jobs to opposition politicians, especially the CDC's Winston Tubman, in an attempt at reconciliation. 

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  • Vol 47 No 2
  •  20th January 2006

Hope at last

The new government blends technocrats, dodgy names and good intentions

  • Vol 47 No 2
  •  20th January 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
  •  18th November 2005

Madam President

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

  • Vol 46 No 23
  •  18th November 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 under t...

  • Vol 46 No 21
  •  21st October 2005

Penalty shoot out

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

  • Vol 46 No 19
  •  23rd September 2005

The soccer vote

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

  • Vol 46 No 19
  •  23rd September 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 Bryant...

  • Vol 46 No 17
  •  26th August 2005

Stuck in the Mittal

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

  • Vol 46 No 9
  •  29th April 2005

Double Wamco

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

  • Vol 46 No 9
  •  29th April 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 Presid...

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