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AfricaFocus Bulletin
Country-focused Bulletins
March 28, 2017 Liberia: Mining, Displacement, and the World Bank
"The roots of the New Liberty Gold project stretch back before 1995,
when a resource extraction license was issued by former warlord
turned president Charles Taylor to a mysterious company called
KAFCO. The permit changed hands a few times and, today, Avesoro holds its
permit via a wholly-owned subsidiary, Bea Mountain Mining Corp – a
company created in 1996 by Keikurah B. Kpoto, one of Taylor's
closest associates. In 1998, foreign interests bought Bea Mountain
Mining. The beneficiaries of the sale were well hidden. According to
a document IRIN procured, three quarters of its capital belonged to
a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands. The rest was
held by owners of bearer shares." - IRIN investigative report, March
21, 2017
Jun 2, 2016 Liberia/Global: Financial Secrecy at Work
"Finance Uncovered, working with an anonymous Liberian journalist,
has exposed a little-known offshore business registry that has
created tens of thousands of anonymous companies and registered them
to a non-existent address in Monrovia, Liberia's capital city.
Although these companies are technically a creation of Liberian law,
management of the registry is based in the United States and appears
to have the support of the US government. ... Our investigation has
discovered over half a billion pounds of high-value London property
registered to Liberian offshore companies."
September 10, 2014 West Africa: Ebola Response Scale-Up Urgent, Uncertain
"The best way to help Africa stem the tide of the current Ebola
epidemic is by rapidly investing in and deploying basic
infectious control measures like gowns, gloves, water, and
sterilization tools, coupled with health worker and community
health trainings in how to properly use them." - Adam C. Levine,
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Brown Medical School
Jan 17, 2008 Liberia: Firestone Challenge Advances
Aug 1, 2007 USA/Africa: Questioning AFRICOM, 1
Feb 9, 2007 Liberia: Debt Cancellation Overdue
Mar 19, 2006 Liberia: Johnson Sirleaf in New York, Washington
Oct 10, 2005 Liberia: Elections Necessary, Not Enough
Dec 12, 2004 Liberia-Sierra Leone: Consolidating Peace?
Nov 12, 2003 Liberia: Peace Process Implementation
Recent Bulletins on Continent-Wide Issues
January 23, 2023 Update from Editor on Future Plans
November 15, 2022 Africa/Global: "Daughter of Africa" Steps Up to Lead on Global Crises
October 25, 2022 Africa/Global: Remembering Valeriano Ferrão and Charles Sherrod
October 10, 2022 AfricaFocus 3.0: Not ´A Nation of Immigrants´
July 20, 2022 Africa/Global: Oligarchs of All Nations
June 9, 2022 Africa/Global: Ukraine, Africa, and Our Planet
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Africa Policy E-Journal (1995-2003)
2003-09-28 Liberia: UN Peacekeeping
2003-07-29 Liberia: Peacekeepers Still Awaited
2003-07-03 Liberia: Waiting for Washington
2003-06-26 Liberia: War Escalates, White House Indifferent to Crisis
2003-06-01 Liberia: Churches call for Peace Support
2002-02-05 Liberia: Elections and Human Rights
1997-12-11 Liberia: Human Rights Report
1997-08-16 Liberia: Election Commentary
1997-06-29 Liberia: FOL Testimony
1996-12-23 Liberia: FOL Report, 2
1996-12-23 Liberia: FOL Report, 1
1996-10-02 Liberia: JPC Update
1996-07-29 Liberia: WOA Update/Alert
1996-05-27 Liberia: Recent Documents, 2
1996-05-27 Liberia: Recent Documents, 1
1996-04-29 Liberia: WOA Letter to Clinton
1996-04-11 Liberia: Action/B'ground Docs,2
1996-04-11 Liberia: Action/B'ground Docs,1
1996-01-29 Liberia: UN Report (excerpts)
1995-10-22 Liberia: More U.S. Support Needed
1995-09-16 Liberia: U.S. Policy (part 2)
1995-09-16 Liberia: U.S. Policy (part 1)
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