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• Liberia Remembers William Tubman

  
  Holidays Around The World - Holidays Around The World — Authority: 476
  Liberia President’s Tubman’s Day: November 29, 2009President’s Tubman’s Day is a Public Holiday in Liberia.William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman was born in Harper, Maryland County, Liberia, on November 29, 1895. He was President of Liberia from 1944 until his death in a London clinic on July 23, 1971. With 27 ...
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• Liberia: Poor Sanitation Killing Country’s Young

  
  Turning Left — Authority: 136
  From AllAfrica.com : Nineteen-year-old Beauty Phillips clutches her emaciated baby tightly to her chest. At seven months, Inga suffers from malnutrition. On this chaotic Friday morning in the Slipway Clinic registration room, over one hundred mothers, their crying infants wrapped in traditional lappa cloth, wait ...
  18 hours ago

• Liberia Sued in London Court for US $20M Debt

  
  Turning Left — Authority: 136
  From the Liberian Daily Observer : Two Caribbean-registered funds have launched a legal case in London, the UK, against Liberia over a debt that dates back to 1978. Hamsah Investment and Wall Capital Limited sued Liberia at a British High Court Wednesday for a summary judgment to enforce a 2002 New York judgment ...
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• "its a long way from West Africa"

  
  LIBERIA — Authority: 107
  Listen out for that quote in this tearjerker Folgers Christmas commercial playing on a TV somewhere in your house this season! After a long and beautiful journey through West Africa, I am thankful be home for the holidays!
  23 hours ago

• Liberia ordered to pay 1978 debt to vultures Hamsah Investments and Wall Capital

  
  propaganda press! freedom now — Authority: 136
  A British court ruled yesterday that Liberia has to pay over 20 million US dollars to two Caribbean-registered investment funds for debts that are more than 30 years old. The figure corresponds to around five per cent of Liberia’s total budget for 2009, according to the BBC. Details of the case have not been ...
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• Opposition Candidate Wins Senatorial Run Off Election in Liberia

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 451
  Liberia’s National Electoral Commission (NCE), has declared the candidate of the opposition Congress for Democratic Change(CDC), Geraldine Doe-Sheriff, winner of the 24 November senatorial run-off election. Announcing the final results of the run-off by-election Thursday evening, National Election Commission ...
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• Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Takes Executive Mansion ‘On the Road’

  
  Turning Left — Authority: 136
  I’ve decided to pay more attention to President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia. I am just finishing This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa’s First Woman President . Johnson Sirleaf’s story is amazing, and her memoir offers an incredible history of Liberia. It is not my intention now ...
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• International Labor Organization Holds Ten-day Intensive Development Seminar for Youth Coordinators Across Liberia

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 451
  The International Labor Organization (ILO) Thursday began a ten-day intensive development seminar for youth coordinators across Liberia. Thirty young people from the Youth and Sports Ministry and the Federation of Liberian Youth are attending the seminar which is a joint employment program of the ILO, United Nations ...
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• Two Vulture Funds Taking Liberia to Court

  
  By The Fault — Authority: 118
  Two offshore investment funds are taking the poverty-stricken African state of Liberia to London’s High Court, over an unpaid debt that dates back to the 1970s. The Caribbean-based companies, described as “vulture funds” want more than $20m. But Liberia says it can’t afford to pay the debt, and accuses the ...
  2 days ago

• Christmas in Liberia

  
  Love in Liberia — Authority: 113
  
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• The Environmental Issues – Appropriate conservation and sustainable development strategies attempt to recognize this as being integral to any approach.

  
  WERI CHANNEL — Authority: 123
  Nature and Animal Conservation        Preserving species and their habitats is important for ecosystems to self-sustain themselves. Yet, the pressures to destroy habitat for logging, illegal hunting, and other challenges are making conservation a struggle. Visit : http://www.globalissues.org/article/1… ...
  3 days ago

• You Give Me Fever [Snap Judgment]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 813
  [Monrovia, Liberia; November 23. Image via Getty ] A young girl gets a yellow fever vaccine , on November 23, 2009 in Monrovia. The largest ever round of yellow fever vaccinations, for about 12 million people, was launched today in Liberia, Benin and Sierra Leone. Three million Liberians will be vacinated in the ...
  4 days ago

• Liberian orphanages

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Many children in orphanages throughout the developing world have at least one parent who is alive, according to research by Save the Children . Photographer Rachel Palmer took these images during a visit to ophanages in Liberia, where the charity estimates 80% of the children are not truly orphans.
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• Pray the Devil Back to Hell (Review)

  
  Kenya Imagine — Authority: 121
  The rebels fought for resources. Charles Taylor fought to stay in power. Young boys were recruited to fight in a war they barely understood. And the women of Liberia, they fought for survival, theirs and Liberia’s. Pray the Devil Back to Hell is a gripping, tear-jerking, yet empowering story of the resilience of ...
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• Will Amazon’s Global Kindle Work in YOUR Country?

  
  Dedicated Elementary Teacher Overseas — Authority: 110
  Amazons Global Kindle Reader I heard that Amazon now has a global version of Kindle. I was disappointed to find this morning that the new version still will not work in my country. Since I’ve wanted one for some time, but have been waiting until they got a version that would work in my country, I checked out ...
  5 days ago

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

  
  Tvbot.se — Authority: 168
  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
  6 days ago

• Liberia: The New War is Rape.

  
  World News Journal — Authority: 141
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• 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
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• LIBERIA: "The new war is rape"

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 720
  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: 443
  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 ...
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