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Liberia battles crippling shortage in health workers
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.
Unicef: Liberian customs raise child mortality
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…
Liberia’s ex-fighters learn peace
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…
UN gets second chance to disarm Liberia
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…