Stories about Liberia from July, 2007
Liberia: crappy Time Magazine coverage
Liberia Ledger finds Time Magazine coverage of Liberia crappy: “This story is annoying. It's supposed to be a scary warning about the West African country of Guinea-Bissau as the newest narco-state. Interesting premise, but even as it mentions Liberia only once in a list of countries, somehow more than half...
Liberia: Charles Taylor in court
Read the latest post from Charles Taylor's trial in the Hague: Taylor entered the courtroom in a dark blue suit with a bright yellow tie, nodded to the judges and sat, flanked by two uniformed guards. After being informed that the delay was due to the fact that the route...
Liberia: this is swamp fishing
You might not know what swamp fishing is. Look at beautiful photos of swamp fishing in Liberia posted by Liberian Ledger.
Voices from Ghana: It's Not All About the Energy Crisis; Stanbic Takes Over Ghana's ADB?; New Currency Arrives
Ghana might be going through an energy crisis, but, somehow, that has not deterred both expatriate and Ghanaian bloggers from making surprisingly positive comments about the country in which they live in. We open this week’s reviews with two of such entries. The first is by a Ghanaian blogger Got...
Liberia: we gave you power, give us education
Liberia Stories writes about the protest by the students of the University of Liberia: “I was there in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs today, when hundreds of University of Liberia students took to the streets. They did it in support of their professors who are on strike until...