LIBERIA

Liberia is the only country in Africa not to have been an European colony. The country has the biggest merchant navy in the world.

Liberia is a small republic in West Africa and has hot, wet costal plain. The hills are covered with forest and grassy highlands. Many areas are uninhabited. The rivers run mostly off this tableland and run through rich vegetation to the coast. Pigmy hippopotamuses and scaled anteaters are to be found in the forest.

The population of 2.3 millions speak 16 different languages but most educated people also speak English. The food crops grown are mostly cassava and rice.

The costal town people are mostly American slaves. In 1822 an American charity founded Liberia as a settlement for freed American slaves. In 1847 it became an independent republic.

Civil war broke out in 1980 and the country is currently in dire straits.

Rubber is produced but the main product is iron ore; some diamonds and gold are also mined.

It offers favourable conditions to ship owners and registration fees earns the country a good income.

The capital is Monrovia which has a good artificial harbour and great houses for officials and businessmen. These houses have a sharp contrast to the surrounding shanty towns.

History
Liberia West African country, established in 1822 by American Colonisation Society for freed slaves. It is the oldest independent republic in Africa.

In 1824 it was named and had its first non-white governor Joseph Jenkins Roberts.

From 1920 the Firestone Rubber Company developed Liberia natural rubber resources and the country prospered.

In 1970 the world rubber prices fell and the economy went down too.

1980 a bloody revolution  broke out under Master-Sergeant Doe and he brought a military government to power. Doe was corrupt and autocratic which brought his rule after 10 years to an end.  In 1990 he was killed by peacekeeping forces from the Economic Community of West Africa.

They had been sent to intervene between the two rebel groups which raged in the country for two years. An uneasy truce was achieved between Charles Taylor and Prince Yortmie Johnson but did not last.

Civil war went on  after 1992 even when Taylor accepted Amos Sawyer as interim president. He himself became vice-president.

LIBERIA'S CIVIL WAR

In 1996 the US was forced to evacuate around 150 aid workers and other foreigners

MONROVIA'S SLUM

Story about the lost children of Liberia

As always the people are getting hurt most and the impact last long if not forever.

A great number of children who lost their family either through civil war or aids sell their body to stay alive. They also sleep in tugged graves amongst the dead. They believe their spirit would protect them.

This is the most shameful result of civil war and bound to have been created by the West and USA.

Every morning the dirty clothed youngsters rise before dawn from the cemetery. These lost children are still haunted by the 14 years of civil war which has ended a decade ago.  TB, Aids and drug run rife amongst them.

A 16-year who slept for five years there said that her parents died and their home was destroyed when she was 10. She had no option, to stay alive, but to sell herself to old men on the street in Monrovia for £1.40 each. She calls herself lucky not to have been pregnant or caught Aids. She prays that God will protect her. She hopes that one day she will be able to leave the grave and go to school.

The police is aware that sex workers are rapidly increasing.

UK charity Street Child trying to help them to get them out and into education.

Another boy of 12 who lost his entire family on Ebola also has no other option. He loves playing football.

These are just two of hundreds and thousands of children who have to fend for themselves by any means they know while the USA and Western 'Elite' are swimming in money. In one way or another they caused the devastating trouble and now they turn their backs on them.

There are all similar stories in Iraq. Afghanistan, Libya, Gaza, West Bank, Syria and many more where the USA and the West had they playground of war. Nobody cares about the civilians during and after the conflict.