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...ZHAOXING Liberia In Monrovia in January, Li won a promise that Liberia would support Beijing's "one China" policy regarding Taiwan. Meanwhile, China offered $25 million for Liberian reconstruction and a $5 million interest-free loan
...only good Doe is a dead Doe' ... Few soldiers or rebels have died in battle, but thousands of civilians have perished ... Last week, in an effort to halt the tribal carnage, 3,000 troops of a five-nation West African peacekeeping force began to fan out in besieged Monrovia. Taylor, challenging their legitimacy, vowed to kill them all ... Taylor is unimpressed by outside efforts to calm the civil strife. 'I am not going to roll over and play dead,' he told TIME. 'This is an attempt to rescue Doe. A peacekeeping force means all sides agree. We have not agreed...
...past few weeks Monrovia had turned relatively quiet, as ECOMOG troops set up checkpoints to keep the Johnson and Taylor factions apart. But death hovers over the city. Virtually no food shipments have arrived since rebel forces first entered Monrovia in July, and hunger is taking lives every day. The starving look as if they are sleeping, curled up on the sidewalks, but their eyes are open; they simply lack the strength to stand. Sam, 8, who approached me with his brother John, 11, pleaded, "Missy, we haven't eaten in three days." I took them to the flat where...
Even if the war were to end tomorrow, recovery would take years. Monrovia's power plant has been severely damaged. The iron-ore mining industry, which earned Liberia more than $200 million a year in peacetime, will never recover; the cost of processing low-quality ore with out-of-date equipment is prohibitive. The rubber industry, Liberia's other main money earner, can be revived, but because of growing competition from Southeast Asia, it will never be as profitable...
...psychological damage to Liberia's population of 2 million cannot be fathomed. What does it do to people to walk along Monrovia's sandy beaches and have to step around skulls and rib cages that are only half submerged in the sand? Taking stock of the toll, a Monrovia cleric said simply, "I weep for this country." If only tears could start the healing...