Thursday, June 28, 2007

War-damaged Liberia starts first census in 23 years

(Reuters) - "For more than 23 years, there has been no accurate data on
the demographic variables of the country," Johnson-Sirleaf said.




The country, founded in 1847 as Africa's first republic by
freed black slaves from the United States, is struggling with
foreign debts of nearly $4 billion and efforts to restore
electricity and other services in the battle-scarred capital
Monrovia have been tortuously slow.


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