How To Use Liberia In A Sentence
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The word burglar is not in the Liberian-English vernacular.
The House at Sugar Beach
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Sierra Leone20 African ethnic groups 90% (Temne 30%, Mende 30%, other 30%), Creole (Krio) 10% (descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area in the late-18th century), refugees from Liberia's recent civil war, small numbers of Europeans, Lebanese, Pakistanis, and Indians
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All such vessels shall produce transires in duplicate, signed and certified to by the customs at the Liberian port of shipment, such transires to detail quantities and values.
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After the war, Taylor rewarded his old friend by granting him logging concessions on the Liberian border with neighbouring Ivory Coast, through which much of his timber is moved.
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In February 2002, a Kenyan diamond dealer based in Liberia was arrested in Belgium on charges of criminal association and using a false passport.
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The Mount Nimba range is a 40 km-long narrow ridge running southwest to northeast, part of a Guinean mountain backbone bordering Sierra Leone and Liberia, of Precambrian basement rock, predominantly granites.
Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire
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Unknown to him, Barbara had written her own reportage of Liberia: Land Benighted (reissued in 1981 as Too Late to Turn Back) is a masterpiece of comic observation and mock-heroic misadventure.
Shades of Greene: One Generation of an English Family by Jeremy Lewis
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Today, Liberians are able to tell their own stories to an international audience by taking advantage of participatory media tools like blogs and photo-sharing sites, writes David Sasaki following a blogging workshop he ran last year at the American Embassy in Monrovia, Liberia.
Global Voices in English » Liberians Are Talking, Are You Listening?
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Human Rights Watch's research in Liberia found that the Liberian Peace Council was responsible for torture, rape, extrajudicial executions, arbitrary detention, and forcible recruitment.
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I spent 1978 in Liberia learning firsthand about the ecumenical church of Jesus Christ.
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The TRC is the key to the reconciliation and achievement of genuine peace in Liberia," stated the commission's president, Jerome Verdier, who led a tour of six northern and eastern provinces where TRC members were able to go and explain their work.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The dispatch of U.N. peacekeepers to Liberia is the first real sign of progress in the search for peace in that war-torn country.
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A rare sight in the streets of Monrovia, Liberians know only too well they've miraculously been pulled back from the edge of the abyss.
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These include the near-endemic white-eyed prinia Prinia leontica (VU), the grey-winged robinchat Cossypha polioptera, lemon dove Columba larvata, Sharp's apalis Apalis sharpei, whitenecked rockfowl Picathartes gymnocephalus (VU) and Nimba flycatcher Melaenornis annamarulae (VU), A detailed account of birds in Liberian Nimba is given in Coston & Curry-Lindahl (1986).
Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire
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In Liberia, the major health issue is infectious diseases, including yellow fever, cholera, typhoid, polio and malaria.
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“persuasion” and indigenous origin: so Reynard the Fox has its analogue amongst the Kafirs and the Vái tribe of Mandengan negroes in Liberia235 amongst whom one Doalu invented or rather borrowed a syllabarium.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The many orphans of the war-torn African country of Liberia might have no stronger wish than simply to be remembered.
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Firstly, it has already been reported that at least 14,000 Ivorians have crossed the border into Liberia, seeking refuge, as they fear the resumption of a full fledge civil war.
Charles Walker Brumskine: Resolving the Ivorian Election Crisis
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Take Liberia for example, wracked by a 14-year civil war, sparked by political misrule and economic collapse.
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Australia has resettled refugees from conflicts in Burundi, Congo, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Sudan.
Immigrant Leaders Call for Talks After Violence in Australian City
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And to put this story in perspective, Charles Taylor is the first elected Liberian president to end his term alive since World War II.
CNN Transcript Aug 11, 2003
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Who is in Liberia right now stopping this slaughter that befell that country after Charles Taylor's escape?
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There are currently about 500,000 displaced people in Liberia, most of whom live in crowded insanitary conditions in temporary shelters or the ruins of abandoned buildings in and around the capital Monrovia.
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Commerce Minister Miatta Beysolow, however, says the call to reduce the price of rice is unjustified because Liberian rice is the cheapest in the West Africa subregion.
Liberian Opposition urges Rice Price Cut
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These freed slaves formed an elite group in Liberian society, and, in 1847, formed a government based on that of the United States, naming their capital city after James Monroe, the fifth president of the United States .
Clinton in Liberia for meeting with president
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LEYMAH GBOWEE, LIBERIAN PEACE ACTIVIST: So (inaudible) today is to send out a signal to the world that we, the Liberian women in Ghana, at this conference, we are fed up with the war, and we are doing this to tell the world we are tired of fighting, the killing of our people.
CNN Transcript Dec 31, 2009
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On July 5, civil servants in Liberia started a go-slow to support their demand for the government to pay their salary arrears.
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Ethnic Liberian languages usually contain two or three distinct tones, based on pitch, which indicate semantic or grammatical differences.
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The Gullah, who are also known as the Geechee in some parts of the South, are descended from slaves specifically brought from West Africa (now Liberia, Sierra Leone and Senegal) because of their familiarity with farming rice and cotton.
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Over 100,000 have already crossed the border into Liberia and to an uncertain fate.
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Ben Donnie, an environmental activist, said the Liberian food supply is sure to suffer.
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The greenback also has parity with the Bermudan, Bahamian, and Liberian dollars, taking it into Africa, plus the Panamanian balboa.
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Sapo National Park is Liberia's only national park and one of the last rainforest refuges for bongo antelopes and forest elephants
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The rebel leaders, as a result, have sent their embarrassing child-soldiers back across the border into Liberia.
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Another staple of Liberian cuisine is cassava, a tropical plant with starchy roots from which tapioca is obtained.
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FALL: Well, Sierra Leone's issue is both an internal one and a sub - regional one because it implicates also the manner of the union countries, namely Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.
CNN Transcript Dec 29, 2001
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In spite of what he called a frustrating "lack of political will" by Liberian faction leaders for a peaceful civil war settlement, "there now appears to be reasonable grounds for optimism," Boutros-Ghali said.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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At least one person has been shot dead and several injured in the Liberian capital Monrovia at an opposition rally on the eve of a disputed presidential election run-off.
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During her visit to the camp, President McAleese laid a wreath in honour of Sergeant Derek Mooney, the army ranger who died in a car crash in Liberia last year.
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Instead, it is a similar brownish "noctuid" caterpillar / moth that has never before been reported as a widespread pest in Liberia but annually plagues parts of nearby Benin (see map).
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The organization's work in Liberia has made a considerable contribution to political party empowerment.
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Under a deal, Saif al-Islam would be taken to The Hague where the ICC shares a detention unit with the UN Yugoslavia war crimes tribunal and the Special Court for Sierra Leone, which is trying the former Liberian president Charles Taylor.
Gaddafi's son says he is innocent
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EmbassadorAmbassador Rice set cited Liberia as an example of the importance of U.
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In terms of tonnage, about 30 per cent of the world's merchant fleet is registered in Panama or Liberia.
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The extent to which the continent of Africa has been spoliated and delimitated by Europeans is shown in the fact that of 11,360,000 square miles of territory, all of it has been absorbed or is claimed except the 9,700 square miles controlled by Liberia on the west coast.
Africa and the American Negro...Addresses and Proceedings of the Congress on Africa Held Under the Auspices of the Stewart Missionary Foundation for Africa of Gammon Theological Seminary in Connection with the Cotton States and International Exposition De
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The American Church is the wealthiest of all 38 Anglican provinces, and dioceses such as Liberia are almost entirely dependent on its support.
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Last December, the Liberians battled more than a sandy field to get to it in neighbouring Sierra Leone.
Craig and Marc Kielburger: Championship Team Helps Rebuild Liberia
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Beyan says she is willing to work with other parties, but only if such collaboration does not compromise what she calls the interests of Liberians.
Liberian Presidential Candidate Beyan's Party is Certified
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Sunderland in his "Liberian Colonization," _Liberian Bulletin_, No. 16, 18, says this meeting was virtually a failure.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917
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More than 250 soldiers from Senegal will join the West African peacekeeping force in Liberia.
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The fact Liberia has no oil seems to explain foreign disinterest in its internal affairs.
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Provide yourself at once with maps, etc., master the chorography of Africa in general, and the topography of Liberia in particular, that is to say, the whole range of the Kong mountains, including its eastern slope on to the Niger, our natural boundary! for the next thirty years! after that, onward!
Henry Ossian Flipper The Colored Cadet at West Point
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The natural remedy for the permanent decrease of the native fever, is the clearing up and cultivation of the land, which will be for some time yet to come, tardy; as emigration to Liberia is very slow, and the natives very unlike those of Yoruba -- cultivate little or nothing but rice, cassaba, and yams, and these in comparative small patches, so that there is very little need for clearing off the forest.
Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party
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I began pacing, worried that its owner might wander by in the midst of what he thought was a casual late-afternoon walk with his ‘Liberian Rusky’ and seeing us, accuse us of dognapping.
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West African leaders agreed to send their peacekeeping troops to Liberia by next week.
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The council also says that because the 20 homes rented by the Liberians are all in areas of low demand, they are not queue-jumping.
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persuasion" and indigenous origin: so Reynard the Fox has its analogue amongst the Kafirs and the Vái tribe of Mandengan negroes in Liberia [FN#235] amongst whom one Doalu invented or rather borrowed a syllabarium.
Arabian nights. English
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Historically, mining - especially for precious gems such as diamonds - played a large role in Liberia's economy.
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Mason says, if elected, he would do a better job in fighting corruption, which he describes as the albatross that has been hanging around the neck of Liberia.
Liberian Presidential Hopeful Vows New Economic Policy
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The companies are Tanker Pacific Management Singapore Pte Ltd., which managed the sale of the tanker Raffles Park; the Societe Anonyme Monegasque d'Administration Maritime et Aerienne, or SAMAMA, a Monaco-based company; and Allvale Maritime Inc. of Liberia, the owner of the tanker.
U.S. Erred in Israeli Sanctions
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Bestsellers from the Guardian shop Liberia presidential election is thrown into chaos by opposition's boycott call Liberian president eyes second term after former warlord's election backing
The Guardian World News
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This mission will be difficult since Liberia lacks everything, there are medical precautions to be taken (Yellow Fever vaccination compulsory, malaria treatment, cholera precautions are needed, no easily available safe drinking water, ...), accommodation is spartan and most of you will be camping out under tents in military camps under heavy rainfall (rainy season), transport is hazardous on almost inexistant roads.
Tatsutahime Diary Entry
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Nigerian presidential aides said at midday yesterday that Obasanjo had departed for Liberia.
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She has helped Liberia emerge from years of civil war and make great strides toward reconstruction and a democracy that values the contributions of all Liberians, including its women.
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Figure 5: Conflict logs: abandoned roundwood logs as a result of the imposition of a timber exporting embargo on Liberia, May 2005.
Opportunities for development in Africa
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The Liberian capital of Monrovia cradles the north Atlantic Ocean and aptly looks west towards the United States of America.
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Ethnic groups: 20 African ethnic groups 90% (Temne 30%, Mende 30%, other 30%), Creole (Krio) 10% (descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area in the late-18th century), refugees from Liberia's recent civil war, small numbers of Europeans, Lebanese, Pakistanis, and Indians
Sierra Leone
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Believing that Liberia's future lay in agriculture, he purchased a sugar plantation with earnings from his photography.
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Liberia was a major supplier of natural rubber to the United States until the 1970s, when prices plummeted due to competition from synthetics.
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Liberian ship owners
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This weekend, Liberia observes its 156th independence anniversary, but there is little to celebrate.
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The last defendant before the Special Court is former Liberian leader Charles Taylor.
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In one Liberian version of the Lord's Prayer, the phrase "lead us not into temptation" was rendered "Do not catch us when we sin.
Spreading the Word in Hundreds of Tongues
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ACCRA - West African heads of state gathered in Ghana's capital Accra for a fresh push to put Liberia's derailed peace process back on track.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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President Sirleaf says strengthening Liberia's General Auditing Commission and complying with the Norwegian-based Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative has reduced corruption.
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Sierra Leone20 African ethnic groups 90% (Temne 30%, Mende 30%, other 30%), Creole (Krio) 10% (descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area in the late-18th century), refugees from Liberia's recent civil war, small numbers of Europeans, Lebanese, Pakistanis, and Indians
Ethnic groups
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The apology for slavery is important in symbolic terms only, especially given the crisis in Liberia.
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They examined the role of literacy among the Vai people of Liberia, where they could compare orality with the effect of literacy in the indigenous Vai script and the effect of Western literacy schooling.
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Global Voices in English » Liberians Are Talking, Are You Listening?
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The document called the Liberian catalogue of popes puts the beginning of his pontificate in the year 223 and its close in the year 230.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
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At one stop in Monrovia, we were immediately approached by a group of young boys asking for day-jobs as they stood under a sign reading, "Make Liberia gun-free.
Craig and Marc Kielburger: Championship Team Helps Rebuild Liberia
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Ethnic groups: 20 African ethnic groups 90% (Temne 30%, Mende 30%, other 30%), Creole (Krio) 10% (descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area in the late-18th century), refugees from Liberia's recent civil war, small numbers of Europeans, Lebanese, Pakistanis, and Indians
Sierra Leone
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The government believed the deportees were a security threat because they were 'ex-combatants' from the war in Liberia.
AllAfrica News: Latest
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If you ask Liberians if they voted, they will proudly show you their thumb painted with indelible ink, the mark of the voter.
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Liberia has a representative system of gov- ernment, Negro jurymen, Negro magistrates, and Negro priests; churches have been built, newspapers established, and, by a singular turn in the vicissitudes of the world, white men are prohibited from establishing themselves within the settlement.49
Jena as de Tocqueville's "democracy" where Black Americans are a "threat" to Whites
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In this manner air service to Liberia's north-west began, non-scheduled at first and later scheduled.
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The Liberian government says a three-month investigation found high levels of orthophosphate being released into the water.
Undefined
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A strong central government that can produce jobs, while turning on water and electrical systems is seen as crucial for long-term Liberian peace.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Of particular note are four members of the Liberian national men's track and field 100-meter relay team.
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Perhaps more importantly, Ms Johnson Sirleaf has not been able to dispel the sense of disenfranchisement felt by many indigenous Liberians.
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Nor does this consideration just apply to extreme cases, such as the trial referred to earlier involving the Liberian fishermen.
PLACEBO: The Belief Effect
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He comes from Liberia where he was forced to become a child soldier and fight in a rebel militia.
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The Bank is also working with Nike Foundation and Liberia to empower adolescent girls through a job training and transition-to-work program.
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News of horrendous mortality rates awaiting Liberian colonists contributed mightily to this declining interest.
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Liberia was founded as a result of freed slaves who were granted repatriation from the U.S. to Africa.
Clinton in Liberia for meeting with president
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Instead, it is a similar brownish "noctuid" caterpillar / moth that has never before been reported as a widespread pest in Liberia but annually plagues parts of nearby Benin.
Signs of the Times
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TIONAL, LIBERIA INCORPORATED based in Monrovia, was intended to train teachers who will teach illiterate people how to read and write.
Global Voices in English » Liberians Are Talking, Are You Listening?
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THE LIBERIAN PEOPLE HAVE DECIDED, NOT ONCE, BUT TWICE; the TRC's Final Report cannot set aside the Liberian people's verdict.
AllAfrica News: Latest
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A one-time student activist in Liberia now makes his home in the United States.
