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Broken Links: Liberia’s Natural Resource Equation

26th
Apr. × ’10

Raise your hands if you think Liberia will benefit from a jump in the price of its chief exports? Friday’s Wall Street Journal led the “Money & Investing” section with a piece titled “High Cost of Raw Materials” which noted a surge this year in the price of things like timber (up 74%) and rubber [...]

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Broken news: An assassination in Liberia

2nd
Nov. × ’09

This is not good. Keith Jubah, chairman of the Liberian government’s procurement and concessions body, as well as, head of a rubber planters consortium was shot to death at his farm near Kakata, Margibi County, Liberia. A brief official bio reads: Mr. Keith K. Jubah, a career chemical engineer with 25 years experience in natural [...]

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