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• Living in Emergency (Les plages d’Agnès): Trailer

  
  Tvbot.se — Authority: 167
  The trailer for Living in Emergency . In the war-zones of Liberia and Congo, four volunteers with Doctors Without Borders struggle to provide emergency medical care under extreme conditions. Read the original:  Living in Emergency (Les plages d’Agnès): Trailer
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• Liberia: The New War is Rape.

  
  World News Journal — Authority: 139
  IRIN 21 November 2009 In Liberia rape survivors are increasingly speaking up and seeking help as awareness of rights increases, but social taboos persist and seeking justice does not always mean that justice is served. Sexual violence consistently comes first or second (after armed robbery) in monthly police crime ...
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• Liberian Laws Are A Secret Due To Copyright; Even The Govt Does...

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 167
  Weve seen a few ridiculous cases whereby local governments claim copyright on a law, but its still stunning to see whats going on in Liberia. read more
  2 days ago

• LIBERIA: "The new war is rape"

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 728
  Source: IRIN In Liberia rape survivors are increasingly speaking up and seeking help as awareness of rights increases, but social taboos persist and seeking justice does not always mean that justice is served.
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• Liberia: Former Liberian president Charles Taylor says foreign journalists were trying to assassinate him

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 489
  Former Liberian president Charles Taylor says he jailed foreign journalists because they were trying to assassinate him, not because they were investigating his alleged involvement with diamond smuggling in Sierra Leone. Mr. Taylor is facing an 11-count indictment of crimes against humanity before a U.N. special ...
  3 days ago

• JUNTA OPPOSITION IN OUAGADOUGOU, PRESENCE OF FOREIGN FORCES CONFIRMED.

  
  World News Journal — Authority: 139
  MISNA 19 November 2009 For the first time since the beginning of the mediation of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), delegations of the ruling military junta and the Live Forces (opposition) will meet directly today in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou in the presence of the mediator, ...
  3 days ago

• Wisdom of Heart Quilt

  
  Love in Liberia — Authority: 113
  Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work. Exodus 35:35 This is the ...
  3 days ago

• Colbert takes on child labor

  
  Labor is Not a Commodity — Authority: 417
  Tim Newman, Campaigns Director, International Labor Rights Forum Last week, I wrote about how big businesses in the US are lobbying against bans on the importation of products made using forced and child labor and linked to a clip from the Rachel Maddow Show .  Sadly, this is not the first time companies like ...
  3 days ago

• Obama in Seoul: My Problem with Foreign News

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 151
  I used to be the foreign editor of In These Times in Chicago. I didn’t particularly enjoy the job, because I have never been fascinated with the world outside of the United States. I am not sure whether I could find Honduras or Liberia on a map, and I have never mastered the current spelling of Chinese names. ...
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• Ghana Energy Minister visits oil vessel construction site

  
  Oil and Gas News — Authority: 137
  A delegation led by the Minister of Energy, Dr. Joseph Oteng-Adjei, has visited three of the yards involved with the construction of the Jubilee Field Offshore Floating Production, Storage and Offloading vessel (FPSO) in Singapore, according to a statement released in Accra on Wednesday by Tullow Ghana Limited.The ...
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• Former LURD Leader Returns to Liberia

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 453
  The former leader of the disbanded rebel movement Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD), Sekou Damante Conneh, returned to Liberia Tuesday following a prolonged absence from the country. Conneh reportedly arrived in Monrovia Tuesday afternoon from neighboring Sierra Leone, where he sought refuge ...
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• Religions Role in the Climate Solution

  
  Interfaith Voices Podcast (hour-long version) — Authority: 107
  Becoming a Steward of the Earth From ending slavery to launching civil rights, religion has long been a powerhouse behind major social change.  This week, a Jew, a Muslim and a Christian explain why faith is the missing link in solving the climate crisis. Imam Johari Abdul-Malik , consulting Imam for DC Green ...
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• Liberian Government Signs $1.6b Investment Agreement with Indonesia-based Golden Agri-Resources

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 453
  The Liberian government has announced that it signed a $1.6 billion investment agreement with the Indonesia-based agribusiness and food company, Golden Agri-Resources. The chairman of the National Investment Commission, Dr. Richard Tolbert, who made the disclosure to reporters in Monrovia Tuesday, said consistent ...
  4 days ago

• Liberian President Urges People to Vote in By-election

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 453
  Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who is apparently taken aback by the low turn-out of voters in the first round of the senatorial by-election, has urged registered voters who did not vote in the first round to go to the polls on Tuesday 24 November to cast their ballots. According to the National Elections ...
  5 days ago

• Prosecution Reads Statements By The International Community Condemning The Actions Of Charles Taylor’s Rebel Group In Liberia

  
  The Trial of Charles Taylor — Authority: 467
  Prosecutors spent much of today’s cross-examination of former Liberian president, Charles Taylor, reading out statements by other West African leaders condemning Mr. Taylor Liberian rebel group for crimes committed against Liberians and members of international humanitarian agencies, including American Catholic nuns ...
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• Pygmy hippo shot and killed in…Australia

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Hunters going after pigs in Australias Northwest Territories got a big surprise when they shot an animal they mistook for a pig, only to find out it was a pygmy hippopotamus, reports the Northwest Territory News.
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• Largest-ever vaccination drive to be launched in African countries

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 716
  New York, Nov 17 (DPA) Close to 12 million people in Benin, Liberia and Sierra Leone will be vaccinated against yellow fever in the largest-ever health campaign in Africa, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Tuesday.“High vaccination coverage will prevent outbreaks of yellow fever, a disease that is very ...
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• Mass vaccinations to fight yellow fever in Africa

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 728
  Source: Reuters * Vaccination campaign targets three countries * Mosquito-borne virus can cause devastating urban epidemics GENEVA, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Nearly 12 million Africans deemed at highest risk from ...
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• Africa: Allah is not obliged

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 726
  Sokari reviews Ahmadou Kouroumas novel, Allah is not obliged: “There are three sets of interwoven stories. The story of Birahima and his many wanderings with different militias across the region which makes a mockery of the artificial boundaries created by colonial rulers – only tribes not countries have meaning ...
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• European Commission Provides €165.9 Million Grant to Liberia

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 453
  The National Authorizing Office (NAO) of the European Commission (EC) has announced strategic assistance worth €165.9 million to the Liberian Government for its post-war reconstruction program. Media reports in Monrovia on Monday quoted the NAO deputy national officer at the Planning Ministry, Alvin Attah, as ...
  6 days ago

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