Liberia, Americas Stepchild

Title: Liberia, Americas Stepchild
Category: Literature / English | Words: 3237 | Pages: 13.8 (approximately 235 words/page)

Liberia, Americas Stepchild

Liberia, Americas Stepchild LAND AND PEOPLE: Liberia, about the size of Tennessee, occupies 43,000 square miles with an estimated population of between two million and three million. Descendants of freed American slaves make up about 5 percent of the population. The indigenous people belong to four main ethnic groups comprising 16 major tribes. The country's religions are Christianity (10 percent), Islam (20 percent) and animism (70 percent). ECONOMY: Liberia's exports were iron ore, rubber and timber and, to a lesser extent, …showed first 75 words of 3237 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 3237 total…observers say, and its execution by the African peaceÄ keepers is an example of how the UN can more effectively carry out its mandate without becoming too involved, as it has in Somalia. "We will stay here until elections," said Kenyan Maj.ÄGen. Daniel Opande, the chief UN military observer in Liberia. "But come elections, the day after the installation of the government, I don't think we will stay here even one day longer that."

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