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Return to Conflict? Upcoming Elections Threaten Post-War Liberia’s Security

MONROVIA, Liberia — On a rainy August evening three days before a national referendum, white United Nations tanks rolled down Tubman Boulevard, the Liberian capital’s main road, and took up positions in front of the president’s house and the national legislature. It was a signal Liberia’s security forces and the U.N. force feared poll violence….

Mae Azango and Emily Schmall
FrontPage Africa

‘I Do It To Survive’: Women Caught Up In Liberia’s Drug Trade

Dealing heroin is a risky business, she says, but she would rather do it than sell her body.  “I do this just to survive and not be on the street. To sell your body cheap for money on the street, that is not fine, so I rather help people to sell their drugs,” she says….

Mae Azango
FrontPage Africa

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