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Here’s how the U.S. aid cuts are leaving Liberia’s health system and women in crisis
When 32-year-old Roseline Phay began searching for contraceptives five months ago, she couldn’t have known her efforts were already doomed. With two young daughters and barely enough to survive as a ...
Four crew dead, at least two wounded in latest Red Sea attack on Greek ship
By Jonathan Saul and Renee Maltezou LONDON/ATHENS (Reuters) -Four seafarers on the Liberian-flagged, Greek-operated bulk carrier Eternity C were killed in a drone and speedboat attack off Yemen, an ...
Three crew dead, at least two wounded in latest Red Sea attack on Greek ship
Three seafarers on the Liberian-flagged, Greek-operated bulk carrier Eternity C were killed in a drone and speedboat attack off Yemen, an official with the EU naval mission Aspides said on Tuesday, ...
As US abruptly ends support, Liberia faces empty health clinics and unplanned pregnancies
Roseline Phay is a farmer in the West African nation of Liberia. She is pregnant after she could no longer find ...
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Red Sea: Two Dead, Two Wounded in Latest Houthi Attack on Greek Bulk Carrier
Two seafarers on the Liberian-flagged, Greek-operated bulk carrier Eternity C were killed in a drone and speedboat attack off ...
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Liberia's Push for Peace: A President's Apology and Calls for Justice
President Joseph Boakai of Liberia initiates a historic reconciliation campaign by apologizing to war victims and holding ...
Liberia's Boakai apologises to war victims, honours slain presidents
Liberian President Joseph Boakai has launched what his office describes as an unprecedented reconciliation campaign, ...
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Liberia’s Ambassador-Designate to Nigeria Vows to Pursue Oil & Gas Opportunities for Liberia’s Benefit
The Ambassador-Designate to Nigeria, John Ballout, has pledged to prioritize economic diplomacy to attract investment and partnerships for Liberia’s oil and gas sector and other key industries across ...
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How Coffee Helped the Union Caffeinate Their Way to Victory in the Civil War - Smithsonian Magazine
The end of the war and Benson’s much-mourned death in 1865—an Ohio newspaper noted his passing as a “great loss”—did not put a damper on Liberian coffee exports to the U.S., where, after ...
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Post-civil war Liberia at a crossroads - SFGATE
The public-service billboards along Liberia's roadways only begin to hint at the magnitude of challenges facing a nation trying to right itself after 14 years of civil war that ended in 2003.
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From war-torn Liberia to Patriots rookie camp: The amazing journey of D3 star Hector Johnson - MassLive
She took in many children who’d lost their parents in the war. At times, the number of orphans swelled to as many as 150 children, and across Liberia, there were 340,000 children orphaned ...
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How the effort to resettle formerly enslaved Black Americans created Liberia - ABC News
Decades later, during the brutal Liberian Civil War, a portion of the family chose to flee the violence by returning to America. We meet 93-year-old Genevieve Coleman-Garnett and her son, James.