African military veterans are in Liberia for a program to help the government meet the needs of former fighters from the country's long civil war. Liberia's government hopes to benefit from the experience of other African nations that have successfu

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Ebola Claims Another Victim: Economic Growth 埃博拉蔓延另一受害者经济发展 The Ebola crisis may have begun in Guinea, but Liberia is among the hardest hit with more than 13 hundred cases reported. Fear of the disease is spreading. The pl

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Liberia Burials Key in Ebola Fight 利比里亚进入消灭埃博拉战斗关键期 The World Health Organization is set to declare Liberia Ebola free. It will make that declaration on May 9th if no new cases are reported. In a sign of how the situat

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Liberian Leader Thanks US for Ebola Support 利比里亚感谢美国对抗击埃博拉的支持 Seven months after the Ebola outbreak turned Liberia upside down, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf came to Washington on Thursday to say thanks to a countr

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Hi, I'm Carl Azuz. This is CNN Student News. Thank you for giving us 10 minutes to get you updated on current events. The center for disease control and prevention says when Tomas Eric D. started his trip from Liberia to the US, he showed no signs of

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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (born 1938) became President of Liberia in 2005. She was Africa's first ever elected female head of state. She has the nickname Iron Lady because of her iron will and determination. She also actively campaigns for womens rights.

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AS IT IS 2013-05-21 Good Economic News, but Poverty Continues. Why? Hello again, and welcome to As It Is, VOAs daily magazine show for people learning American English. Im Christopher Cruise. Today on the program, we report on the fight against illeg

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Flooding in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, has affected thousands and left hundreds displaced. The Liberian Minister of Information has placed the blame on global warming and poor construction planning. Brent Latham has more from our West Africa bu

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Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf attends the New World, New Capitalism conference in Paris, 9 Jan 2009 (file photo) Liberian President, Ellen Sirleaf Johnson is urging countries to make free health care available to the poor. The Liberian pre

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VOA标准英语2011--Incumbent Liberian President Leading in Early Returns First results from Liberia's presidential election show incumbent President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf leading her 15 rivals. Reporting results from just over 16 percent of more th

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West African Economies Hard-Hit by Ebola 埃博拉重创西非经济 In 2013, the World Bank ranked Sierra Leone and Liberia as second and sixth respectively among the top 10 countries with the fastest-growing GDPs. But the ongoing Ebola outbreak is

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ActionAid: Many Unknown Ebola Cases 行动援助:许多未知的埃博拉病例 While the West Africa Ebola outbreak did not start in Liberia, the country has been the hardest hit with the most cases and deaths. The group ActionAid says its not clear

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Shifting Focus in Ebola Countries An organization providing medical assistance to Ebola-affected countries is expanding its operations to include other health needs. Direct Relief is taking the action as fewer new Ebola cases are reported. From the e

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By Nico Colombant Monrovia 22 February 2008 Teachers and students in Liberia say they want more than textbooks and desks to improve their war-ravaged education system, following new aid pledges by President Bush at the end of his Africa tour this wee

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By Scott Stearns Monrovia 21 February 2008 President Bush has announced new American funds to help Liberia rebuild its education system. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports the president visited this civil-war scarred country on the l

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By Nico Colombant Bokoni 08 February 2008 While former Liberian president, Charles Taylor, is being tried in The Hague for alleged war crimes in Sierra Leone, his imprint is still being felt in the neighboring country of Guinea as well. Some of his f

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By Carolyn Weaver Washington, DC 04 August 2006 watch World Bank Aid Malaria and HIV/AIDS still afflict Africans disproportionately When he became World Bank president 14 months ago, Paul Wolfowitz said it was clear that Africa had to be at the top

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By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 10 December 2007 Liberia's former transitional leader, Gyude Bryant, has appeared in court, after being arrested for missing earlier appearances in his continuing embezzlement trial. The court has given him until Friday to find

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By Scott Stearns Dakar 14 October 2009 Convicted drug dealers in Liberia now face longer prison terms. It is part of a campaign to battle both foreign drug traffickers and domestic producers, some of whom enjoy the support of local villagers in a co

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Topics: Famous Americans: Thomas Edison; Liberia; symposium versus workshop versus seminar; to account for; Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. Words: inventor prodigious practical phonograph patent entrepreneur te

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