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There are few better records of the shifting fortunes of Liberia than the guest register at the Mamba Point Hotel. When Chawki Bsaibes opened up in the old Dutch embassy on Monrovia's bullet-pocked seafront in the dying days of Liberia's first civil war in 1993, his customers were peacekeepers, war correspondents and development workers. When fighting started again in 1999, the reporters returned, followed by mercenaries, and then - with the arrival of a second fragile peace after President Charles Taylor's defeat and exile in 2003 - a wild-eyed group of Western carpetbaggers after a quick buck...
...census - it has a reformist leader, two ports, rich resources and a history of exporting. In the 1950s, rubber powered economic growth of 8%, second only to Japan that decade. Fixing Liberia should still be a relative cinch. "It's everybody's favorite model," says a Western economist in Monrovia. "If it doesn't work here, it doesn't work anywhere...
...Trees, New Growth Head east from Monrovia, past Firestone, the U.S. rubber giant's worker town, past Smell-No-Taste, a town known in years past for the fine cooking aromas that would waft in from a nearby expatriate housing colony, down a 50-mile (80 km) stretch of road whose potholes can swallow a small car, and you'll come to Buchanan. When Joel Strickland, 47, first visited Liberia three years ago to scout for opportunities, he was a partner in a Toronto hedge fund. In Buchanan, Strickland was struck by the number of moribund rubber plantations. Untended during...
...Olympic torch generates much political heat, do you think athletes should take positions on major world issues? E.D. Mathew MONROVIA, LIBERIA...
...Swanee G. Hunt, former ambassador to Austria and director of the Women and Public Policy Program at HKS, called Johnson-Sirleaf “a beacon for progressive leadership across Africa and the world.” After growing up in Liberia’s capital city of Monrovia, Johnson-Sirleaf graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1964, where she was a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the first sorority founded by black women. Following her time at HKS, Johnson-Sirleaf served as Assistant Minister of Finance under President William Tolbert. When Tolbert was overthrown...