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Liberia's President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf: A Nobel Laureate’s Problem at Home Could Be Planning Seeds Of Future Conflict In Liberia
By SILAS KPANAN'AYOUNG SIAKOR and RACHAEL S. KNIGHT: Published: January 20, 2012 (New York Times)
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Ngafuan Accused Of Transferring $400,000 To The US
Shortly prior to his appointment Thursday as Foreign Minister designate, Mr. Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan, while acting as Finance Minister, refuted as "untrue" allegations that he transferred US$400,000 to a Liberian .. read more
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Violent Elections Underscore Rights Concerns
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Elections held throughout sub-Saharan Africa in 2011 signaled a growing formal commitment to democratic rule, but Africa's leaders deployed violence and curtailed rights during election periods and beyond to hold on to power, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2012. read more
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ON Monday, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was inaugurated for a second term. She is often depicted in the press as a postwar leader successfully rebuilding a country destroyed by decades of conflict. For her many admirable accomplishments, she recently shared the Nobel Peace Prize. However, unbeknown to many outside Liberia, Mrs. Johnson Sirleaf’s government may now be sowing the seeds of future conflict by handing over huge tracts of land to foreign investors and dispossessing rural Liberians. Between 2006 and 2011, Mrs. Johnson Sirleaf granted more than a third of Liberia’s land to private investors to use for logging, mining and agro-industrial enterprises. Today, more than seven million acres have become forestry and agricultural concessions. In 2009 and 2010, Mrs. Johnson Sirleaf’s government awarded more than 1.6 million acres for palm oil production. 
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