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/ 14 January 2009
Liberia has just 122 doctors to treat its 3,5 million people, who desperately need at least 1 000 physicians, or almost 10 times that number.
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/ 24 January 2008
The top United Nations Children’s Fund official for West and Central Africa, Esther Guluma, has been touring Liberia this week to urge its adults to abandon practices that raise the child mortality rate. ”Malnutrition is the underlined cause for child deaths,” Guluma said in the central town of Gbarnga.
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/ 15 November 2006
Eighteen-year-old Alfred Kamara likes learning to be a carpenter, but he also liked the power his gun used to give him. A former child soldier in Liberia’s 14 years of on-off civil war, he is one of more than 100 000 ex-combatants disarmed and offered education or practical training.
The United Nations tried for a second time on Thursday to disarm Liberia’s estimated 45 000 combatants, hoping that a five-month public awareness campaign — including a travelling song-and-dance revue — will pay off and help the West African state take a giant step towards lasting peace.