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...Coyah, a town in Guinea blessed with springs of the purest water, Ibrahim and Marie ignored the tradition. Not defiantly but without thought, because Aisha was their first child and they were distracted by worries. No one was buying the beds Ibrahim built, and refugees from Liberia and Sierra Leone were spilling into the country, carrying with them tales of brutality...
...American suburb. Children disappear, sometimes kidnapped like Aisha by traders who sell them into slavery, sometimes split accidentally from their parents at refugee camps or nabbed by passing soldiers to join the fight. Thousands of children have been separated from their families by the civil war that started in Liberia in 1989, spread to Sierra Leone in 1991 and has now infected Guinea. Children with no parents and no protection roam the streets of Conakry...
...most just recently is the OECD's "harmful tax competition" review, which demands more transparency, greater exchange of tax information and an end to ring-fencing, under which nonresidents enjoy preferential tax treatment. In June it produced a provisional black list of 35 jurisdictions that included Nauru, Barbados and Liberia - and the Isle of Man. This triggered much indignant huffing and puffing from the island, which maintained it had no reason to be on the list and that other inquiries had put it in the top division for good practices. Says Gregory Jones, tax partner at accountants KPMG: "We genuinely...
...outlawed all music, but they’re not bothered if I play the jazz program on the BBC, because, as a Westerner, I’m past all punishment, I can’t be saved, I’m going to hell.” In Liberia, citizens have the utmost reverence for the United States and wait eagerly for the aid they expect. “Liberians don’t know that most Americans couldn’t guess on which of the seven continents they actually reside, that images of their war have rarely been...
...last chapter, Johnson goes back to Liberia at the request of Esquire magazine. This section is simultaneously an unfiltered report of events and an absurd hallucination, with Johnson portraying the Africa of Liberia not so much as the Dark Continent as another planet. Menacingly titled “The Small Boys’ Unit,” Johnson writes of trying to reach and interview Charles Taylor, one of Liberia’s leaders. He gets stuck on buses that sometimes decide not to go anywhere. He gets his passport only mistakenly stamped, and nearly sends his guide to jail...