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| | Liberia News |
 | | A consortium of five human rights organizations has called on the Liberian Senate not to confirm former Justice Minister, Cllr. | | | Monrovia, Mar 01, 2006 --The President of Liberia, Mrs. | | | One positive outcome of the civil war that ravaged Liberia may be the fact that the conflict gave birth to a new literary outburst. |
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http://www.topix.net/world/liberia
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| | allAfrica.com: Liberia: Liberia: A Casualty of the Cold War's End |
| | One of those urging higher-level U.S. diplomatic activity in Liberia was Republican Senator Nancy Kassebaum, now chairman of the Subcommittee on Africa Affairs of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee."We have a responsibility to help fix some of the problems we helped create," she said in a 1992 interview. | | | When Liberia claimed its independence with Washington's assent, the country had to wait 15 years for formal diplomatic recognition, finally extended by the Lincoln administration in 1862, (when, according to Liebenow, "the civil war had removed the principal objectors to the presence of a black envoy in Washington, D.C."). | | | Liberia's civil war, which began with a cross-border raid by a tiny rebel band in late 1989, has claimed the lives of one out of every 17 people in the country, uprooted most of the rest, and destroyed a once-viable economic infrastructure. |
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http://allafrica.com/stories/200101090216.html
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| | Stories from Liberia: Field Officer Reflects on Election Prep in a War-Torn Land |
| | As in the United States, Liberia's Senate represents the country's subdivisions equally, but a county earns seats in the lower chamber according to its proportion of registered voters, a proxy for population in a country that hasn't done a census in more than 20 years. | | | Liberia's destroyed infrastructure, pervasive poverty, 85 percent illiteracy rate, and bitter electoral history are compounding the challenges of providing civic education and making technical arrangements for the election process. | | | The electoral reform law passed in December mandated each county have at least two seats in the House of Representatives, but left vague whether a county would receive those up front, or only if it otherwise wouldn't have earned them by virtue of population. |
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| | Stories from Liberia: Field Officer Reflects on Election Prep in a War-Torn Land |
| | As in the United States, Liberia's Senate represents the country's subdivisions equally, but a county earns seats in the lower chamber according to its proportion of registered voters, a proxy for population in a country that hasn't done a census in more than 20 years. | | | Liberia's destroyed infrastructure, pervasive poverty, 85 percent illiteracy rate, and bitter electoral history are compounding the challenges of providing civic education and making technical arrangements for the election process. | | | This request was in line with a first-time-ever voluntary Code of Conduct signed by all registered political parties in Liberia this year. |
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http://www.cartercenter.org/doc2140.htm
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| | All Liberia Coalition Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The party won 3 of 64 seats in the House of Representatives and 2 of 26 in the Senate. | | | The party won one seat in the Senate and two in the House of Representatives. | | | The All Liberia Coalition Party (ALCOP) is a political party in Liberia. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Liberia_Coalition_Party
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| | UGA African American Studies |
| | In 1988 she became the first African American to hold high office in Cook County when she was elected Cook County Recorder of Deeds, an important stepping stone to her Senate race. | | | Born in Baltimore County, Maryland, Banneker was the child of a free black father. | | | Self taught in the fields of astronomy and surveying, he assisted in the survey of the Federal Territory of 1791 and calculated ephemerides and made eclipse projections for Benjamin Banneker's Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia Almanack and Epheremis, published during the years 1792-1797. |
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| | July 1997 |
| | Taylor's National Patriotic Party wins 21 of 26 seats in the Senate and 49 of 64 seats in the House of Representatives. | | | Mexico: In parliamentary elections, the Institutional Revolutionary Party wins 38.9% of the vote (239 seats), the National Action Party 27% (121), the Party of the Democratic Revolution 25.6% (125), the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico 3.9% (8), and the Workers Party 2.6% (7). | | | Johnson-Sirleaf's Unity Party wins 3 seats in the Senate and 7 in the House. |
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http://www.rulers.org/1997-07.html
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| | Articles - United States |
| | The ultimate power of Congress over the President is that of impeachment or removal of the elected President through a House vote, a Senate trial, and a Senate vote (by two-thirds majority in favor). | | | The members of the President's Cabinet are responsible for administering the various departments of state, including the Department of Defense, the Justice Department, and the State Department. | | | The federal government is comprised of a Legislative Branch (led by Congress), an Executive Branch (led by the President), and a Judicial Branch (led by the Supreme Court). |
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| | Liberia |
| | There were 16 opposition parties, most of which had little popular support outside of the capital, and opposition legislators, who held only one-quarter of the seats in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, generally were more passive than members of the ruling NPP. | | | The 1997 legislative and presidential elections were held under a special election law in accordance with the terms of the Abuja Peace Process. | | | Liberia, with a population of approximately 3,164,000, is a very poor country with a market-based economy that has yet to recover from the ravages of the civil war. |
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http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/af/8388.htm
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| | Politics of Liberia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | National Democratic Party of Liberia (NDPL) was declared winner. | | | Legislative branch: bicameral National Assembly consists of the Senate (26 seats; members elected by popular vote to serve nine-year terms) and the House of Representatives (64 seats; members elected by popular vote to serve six-year terms) | | | Liberia is still trying to recover from the ravages of war. |
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| | NEC announces final results of Liberian poll |
| | COTOL won seven seats in the upper house or senate, three each went to the CDC and Unity Party and other seats in the 30 member house were won by smaller parties. | | | The four-party coalition for the Transformation of Liberia led by Varney Sherman won eight, and eight went to Sirleaf-Johnson's Unity Party. | | | Monrovia- The head of Liberia's national election commission, Frances Johnson Morris, Wednesday announced final results of the October 11 presidential polls at a ceremony in Monrovia. |
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http://news.monstersandcritics.com/africa/printer_1057689.php
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| | The parliament to be elected will be bicameral, with a House of Assembly of 64 members and a Senate of 26 members, and elections will be conducted on the basis of proportional representation under a single constituency. | | | Under the Special Electoral Law for the 1997 Liberian democratic elections, from which the Independent Elections Commission (IECOM) derives its mandate and authority, IECOM is granted the power and responsibility for administering and conducting the elections, as well as formulating and enforcing guidelines which control the conduct of the electoral process. | | | To observe and verify the election process, in consultation with the Organization of African Unity and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), including the legislative and presidential elections to be held in accordance with provisions of the peace agreements. |
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| | United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) |
| | On 11 October 2005, nation-wide elections will be held in Liberia for the offices of the President and the Vice-President, the Senate, and the House of Representatives. | | | The parties to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed in Accra in August 2003 were motivated by concerns about the years of civil war and the suffering of the population, and by the desire of the Liberian people for genuine lasting peace, national unity and reconciliation. | | | The NEC was inaugurated on 29 April 2004 and is the exclusive electoral authority responsible for the organization and conduct of the elections. |
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| | Liberia 4 |
| | Charles Taylor was elected President and his National Patriotic Party (NPP) gained 21 of the 26 seats in the Senate and 49 of the 64 in the House of Representatives. | | | Liberia was founded by freed black slaves from the southern states of the US who were settled on the Grain Coast under the auspices of the American Colonization Society in the early part of the nineteenth century. | | | The Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) are believed to have been responsible for the massacre of over 1,000 civilians in two separate instances: St Peter's Lutheran Church in Monrovia in July 1990 and Harbel Plantation in June 1993. |
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http://www.asylumlaw.org/docs/liberia/ind99b_liberia_ca.htm
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| | UNOMIL |
| | Under the Special Electoral Law for the 1997 Liberian democratic elections, from which the Independent Elections Commission (IECOM) derives its mandate and authority, IECOM is granted the power and responsibility for administering and conducting the elections, as well as formulating and enforcing guidelines which control the conduct of the electoral process. | | | The parliament to be elected will be bicameral, with a House of Assembly of 64 members and a Senate of 26 members, and elections will be conducted on the basis of proportional representation under a single constituency. | | | In addition to its existing mandate to observe and verify the electoral process, UNOMIL is also providing support to Liberia's Independent Elections Commission in the logistical planning stages and continues to coordinate closely with ECOWAS and the major donors in assisting in the harmonization of electoral preparations. |
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| | Charles Taylor was elected President and his National Patriotic Party (NPP) gained 21 of the 26 seats in the Senate and 49 of the 64 in the House of Representatives. | | | Liberia was founded by freed black slaves from the southern states of the US who were settled on the Grain Coast under the auspices of the American Colonization Society in the early part of the nineteenth century. | | | The Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) are believed to have been responsible for the massacre of over 1,000 civilians in two separate instances: St Peter's Lutheran Church in Monrovia in July 1990 and Harbel Plantation in June 1993. |
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http://www.asylumlaw.org/docs/liberia/ind99b_liberia_ca.htm
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| | Liberia Profile: Government |
| | Senate - percent of vote by party - NA%; seats by party - NPP 21, UP 3, ALCOP 2; House of Representatives- percent of vote by party - NA%; seats by party - NPP 49, UP 7, ALCOP 3, Alliance of Political Parties 2, UPP 2, LPP 1 | | | Senate - last held 19 July 1997 (next to be held NA 2006); House of Representatives- last held 19 July 1997 (next to be held 14 October 2003) |
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| | The Dominion: Recent History of Liberia |
| | One of those urging higher-level U.S. diplomatic activity in Liberia was Republican Senator Nancy Kassebaum, now chairman of the Subcommittee on Africa Affairs of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee." We have a responsibility to help fix some of the problems we helped create," she said in a 1992 interview. | | | "We could not understand how the U.S. government with its long-standing relationship with Liberia could remain so aloof," said Ambassador Joseph Iroha, a career Nigerian diplomat who represented Ecowas in Monrovia for several years during the war. | | | Taylor returned to Liberia on Christmas Eve in 1989, at the head of a guerilla force of 100 to 500 men called the National Patriotic Front of Liberia [NPFL]. |
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| | Liberia was founded by freed black slaves from the southern states of the US who were settled on the Grain Coast under the auspices of the American Colonization Society in the early part of the nineteenth century. | | | Charles Taylor was elected President and his National Patriotic Party (NPP) gained 21 of the 26 seats in the Senate and 49 of the 64 in the House of Representatives. | | | The Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) are believed to have been responsible for the massacre of over 1,000 civilians in two separate instances: St Peter's Lutheran Church in Monrovia in July 1990 and Harbel Plantation in June 1993. |
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| | OTAL - Liberia |
| | Charles Taylor was born in Liberia in 1948 to a Liberian mother and an American father. | | | The Senate has 26 members, elected for a nine year term in two-seat constituencies. | | | The House of Representatives has 64 members, elected for a six year term in single seat constituencies. |
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| | TLC Africa.Com |
| | BY JEREMIAH J. The inauguration of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in January as Liberia's 23rd President was a momentous event within the spectrum of the historical sequence of our nation, Africa's oldest independent Republic. | | | The United States Senate may vote as early as Tuesday on a budget amendment proposed by Republican Senator Lincoln Chaffee that would provide $80 million in immediate assistance to the new democratic government in Liberia. | | | When Ellen Johnson Sirleaf took office as Liberia's post-war president on January 16, she outlined a number of initiatives aimed at producing tangible "deliverables" for the country's war-ravaged population during the first five months of her administration. |
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| | UNOMIL |
| | The parliament to be elected will be bicameral, with a House of Assembly of 64 members and a Senate of 26 members, and elections will be conducted on the basis of proportional representation under a single constituency. | | | Under the Special Electoral Law for the 1997 Liberian democratic elections, from which the Independent Elections Commission (IECOM) derives its mandate and authority, IECOM is granted the power and responsibility for administering and conducting the elections, as well as formulating and enforcing guidelines which control the conduct of the electoral process. | | | Attached is a list of the presidential candidates and their parties, released by the Independent Elections Commission, in the order they will appear on the ballot. |
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| | Politics of Liberia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Liberia has a bicameral National Assembly that consists of the Senate (30 seats; members elected by popular vote to serve nine-year terms) and the House of Representatives (64 seats; members elected by popular vote to serve six-year terms) | | | Politics of Liberia takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President is the head of state and head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system. | | | From 1980 to 2003, Liberia was governed by a series of military and transitional governments. |
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| | Liberian Center |
| | they are Grand Cape Mount Count County; Bomi County; Montserrado County; Lofa County; Margibi County; Bong County; Grand Bassa County; Nimba County; Grand Gedeh County; River Cess County; Grand Kru County; Sinoe County; and Maryland County.The Liberian Senate is currently considering legislation to create the 14th county in Liberia. | | | This is the Map of Liberia, showing the political | | | Liberia was one of the countries hit the hardest, by the slavers, during the second quarter of the nineteenth century. |
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| | CIA - The World Factbook -- Liberia |
| | elections: Senate - last held 19 July 1997 (next to be held 11 October 2005); House of Representatives - last held 19 July 1997 (next to be held 11 October 2005) | | | The United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), which maintains a strong presence throughout the country, completed a disarmament program for former combatants in late 2004, but the security situation is still volatile and the process of rebuilding the social and economic structure of this war-torn country remains sluggish. | | | Civil war and government mismanagement have destroyed much of Liberia's economy, especially the infrastructure in and around Monrovia, while continued international sanctions on diamonds and timber exports will limit growth prospects for the foreseeable future. |
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| | BBC NEWS Africa Liberia footballer set for poll |
| | In concurrent legislative elections 206 candidates are fighting for 30 Senate seats, and the 64 lower house seats are being contested by 503 hopefuls. | | | Among the others running for president are Ellen Sirleaf of the Unity Party, who opposed former Liberian strongman Charles Taylor in the 1997 vote, and Sekou Conneh, the head of the Lurd rebels who invaded Monrovia, leading Mr Taylor to flee into exile in August 2003. | | | Liberia is still suffering the after effects of a 14-year civil war |
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| | POLITICS-LIBERIA: New President Faces Enormous Challenges |
| | "She resigned her position as finance minister to protest excessive government spending and has also refused to take a seat in Liberia's Senate to protest fraud in the 1985 general elections," she said | | | Liberia's new president declared Nov. 24 will take office in January. | | | A Harvard trained economist, she worked at the United Nations as Director of the Africa Bureau of the UN Development Programme (UNDP), as a World Bank official, and as vice president for the Equator Bank in Washington, D.C. Johnson-Sirleaf once also served as vice president for Africa of Citibank, one of America's leading financial institutions. |
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| | liberia, peacekeeping, congress - FCNL |
| | Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That Congress-- | | | Whereas in 1926 the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company opened a rubber plantation on 400,000 hectares (1,000,000 acres) of land granted by the Liberian Government allowing rubber production to become the mainstay of the Liberian economy and in 1936 the new government of former slaves succeeded in abolishing forced-labor practices on the Firestone plantations; | | | Expressing the sense of Congress with respect to the urgency of providing support for the `Agreement on Ceasefire and Cessation of Hostilities Between the Government of the Republic of Liberia and Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy and the Movement for Democracy of Liberia', and for other purposes. |
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