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*Ezekiel Pajibo, "[http://www.fpif.org/outside/commentary/2003/0307liberia.html Liberia: Ending the Horror]", ''Foreign Policy in Focus'', July 15, 2003. | *Ezekiel Pajibo, "[http://www.fpif.org/outside/commentary/2003/0307liberia.html Liberia: Ending the Horror]", ''Foreign Policy in Focus'', July 15, 2003. | ||
*Robin Philpot, "[http://www.counterpunch.org/philpot07192003.html History Doesn't Repeat Itself, It Stutters! The US and Liberia]", ''Counterpunch'', July 19, 2003. | *Robin Philpot, "[http://www.counterpunch.org/philpot07192003.html History Doesn't Repeat Itself, It Stutters! The US and Liberia]", ''Counterpunch'', July 19, 2003. | ||
| + | *Annon, "[http://www.globalwitness.org/media_library_get.php/237/TimberTaylorSoldierSpy.pdf Timber, Taylor, Soldier, Spy]", ''[[Global Witness]]'', June 15, 2005. | ||
| + | *Max Blumenthal, "[http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050919/blumenthal Pat Robertson's Katrina Cash]", ''The Nation'', September 7, 2005. | ||
*[[Ezekiel Pajibo]] and [[Emira Woods]], "[http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4427 AFRICOM: Wrong for Liberia, Disastrous for Africa]", ''Foreign Policy in Focus'', July 26, 2007. | *[[Ezekiel Pajibo]] and [[Emira Woods]], "[http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4427 AFRICOM: Wrong for Liberia, Disastrous for Africa]", ''Foreign Policy in Focus'', July 26, 2007. | ||
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/country_profiles/1043567.stm Timeline: Liberia], ''BBC'', accessed February 2008. | *[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/country_profiles/1043567.stm Timeline: Liberia], ''BBC'', accessed February 2008. | ||
*[http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/places/countries/country_liberia.html Liberia], ''National Geographic'', accessed February 2008. | *[http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/places/countries/country_liberia.html Liberia], ''National Geographic'', accessed February 2008. | ||
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Revision as of 06:56, 6 October 2008
Liberia is a country on the west coast of Africa with a population of 3.8 million and capital city of Monrovia. Fighting in the country has gone on since 1980 with around 250,000 dead, leaving the country in poverty and overrun with weapons. The United Nations now has 15,000 peacekeeping troops in the country and former leader Charles Taylor is being tried for war crimes in The Hague. [1]
Contents
Media
The BBC says of the country's media:
- Years of civil war left Liberia's broadcasters and publishers with the task of repairing damage caused by fighting and looting and the need to find resources to pay staff. The state-run broadcaster has no television service and operates a single radio service. The station does not have national coverage.
- Community radio stations are on the air, some of them supported by international agencies.[1]
Leaders
- Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President, Africa's first elected woman head of state
US Ambassadors
- Linda Thomas-Greenfield
- Donald E. Booth
- John Blaney who departed Liberia on July 13, 2005
Resources
Related SourceWatch articles
- Association of Liberian Journalists
- Conflict Diamonds
- Failed state
- Gus Kouwenhoven
- Justice and Peace Commission
- Kleptocracy
- Liberia National Law Enforcement Association
- Liberia Watch for Human Rights
- Liberian Institute of Journalism
- Press Union of Liberia
- Talking Drum Studio
- Transitional Justice Working Group
- American-Liberian United Minerals
- Freedom Gold
- Mano Rivers Resources
References
- ↑ Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 Country profile: Liberia, BBC, accessed February 2008.
External articles
- Ledgerhood Rennie, "Liberia: A year of slow progress", BBC, January 16, 2007.
External resources
- Kenneth R. Shakedown, "Exposing the Real Jesse Jackson" (Washington DC: Regnery Publishing, 2002). (Critical information on Jesse Jackson)
- Ezekiel Pajibo, "Liberia: Ending the Horror", Foreign Policy in Focus, July 15, 2003.
- Robin Philpot, "History Doesn't Repeat Itself, It Stutters! The US and Liberia", Counterpunch, July 19, 2003.
- Annon, "Timber, Taylor, Soldier, Spy", Global Witness, June 15, 2005.
- Max Blumenthal, "Pat Robertson's Katrina Cash", The Nation, September 7, 2005.
- Ezekiel Pajibo and Emira Woods, "AFRICOM: Wrong for Liberia, Disastrous for Africa", Foreign Policy in Focus, July 26, 2007.
- Timeline: Liberia, BBC, accessed February 2008.
- Liberia, National Geographic, accessed February 2008.
