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Huge Employment for Grand Gedians Underway

One of the world�s leading iron ore mining company, the Severstal Putu Iron Ore Mining Company, has been given green light by the Government of Liberia (GOL) to operate in the country. Speaking recently to this writer in Tiama Town, Grand Gedeh County, the newly appointed Country Manager of the company, Mr. Christian Masurenko, disclosed that about 500 Liberians, most of whom are Grand Gedians, are now employed with the company.

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Rights Group: Liberia Fails to Stop Cross-Border Attacks

Human Rights Watch says mercenaries in eastern Liberia are running deadly cross-border raids into Ivory Coast and recruiting child soldiers. The international rights group reports Liberia has failed to investigate and prosecute Liberian and Ivorian fighters who set up camp in Liberia after committing atrocities during the 2011 post-election crisis in Ivory Coast.

As former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo awaits his first hearing on charges of crimes against humanity this month at the Hague, Human Rights Watch says pro-Gbagbo mercenaries continue to run deadly raids into western Ivory Coast.

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Liberia's Charles Taylor, guilty of war crimes, to be sentenced May 30

Liberian ex-president Charles Taylor will be sentenced on May 30 for war crimes for arming Sierra Leone's rebels in return for blood diamonds during the 1991-2001 civil war.

"The sentence will be pronounced on May 30th at 11:00 a.m. (local time)," presiding judge Richard Lussick told the Special Court for Sierra Leone shortly after delivering the guilty verdict.

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VIDEO: President Sirleaf, I will never sign Anti-Gay law in my office.

VIDEO: President Sirleaf, I will never sign Anti-Gay law in my office. Never

Who'll emulate Liberia's George Weah?

Football fans who are familiar with the career of George Weah will always remember a story of the former world footballer of the year.

That he coached and single-handedly financed the Liberian national team, The Lone Star, in its unsuccessful bid to qualify for the 2002 Fifa World Cup.

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Liberia land deals with foreign firms 'could sow seeds of conflict'

Pa Sando, the town chief of Konja, in Grand Cape Mount county in Liberia, looks out across the farmland. "I used to pick cocoa on this farm for more than 30 years. My grandfather planted it for us," he says. "All this area here was mine, and now it's all gone.

The land has been leased by Sime Darby Plantation (Liberia) Inc, owned by the Malaysian-based multinational Sime Darby, to grow trees for palm oil. Sando said he was never asked whether he wanted to give up his land â�� only that he saw the bulldozers in the bush and then his land was taken.

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VIDEO: President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Timeline in office

Watch President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Timeline in office

Charles Taylor had US spy agency ties

WASHINGTON - When Charles G. Taylor tied bed sheets together to escape from a second-floor window at the Plymouth House of Correction on Sept. 15, 1985, he was more than a fugitive trying to avoid extradition. He was a sought-after source for American intelligence.

After a quarter-century of silence, the US government has confirmed what has long been rumored: Taylor, who would become president of Liberia and the first African leader tried for war crimes, worked with US spy agencies during his rise as one of the worldâ��s most notorious dictators.

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Liberia Elections: Boy shot in the eye as opposition clash with police

WARNING GRAPHIC VIDEO: Liberia Elections: Boy shot in the eye as opposition clash with police

NEC chief James Fromayan resigns ahead of run-off

MONROVIA â�� Liberia's election chief resigned on Sunday after the opposition, citing fraud in the October 11 presidential first round, threatened to boycott the run-off if he did not step down.

I am resigning to give way to peace. I do not want to be the obstacle to the holding of the run-off election" on November 8, James Fromayan of the National Election Commission said in his resignation letter.

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