This Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) examines Liberia’s development trajectory through the lens of the country’s vulnerability to climate change. It identifies Liberia’s development risks and opportunities, models various scenarios of climate impact and intervention, and proposes ways to strengthen resilience and finance climate actions that support Liberia’s development …
Aims to produce 10 million tonne of iron ore per annum in the first phase Vedanta group firm Sesa Goa will finalise the capital expenditure plan for first phase of its Liberia iron ore mining project by January, a top company official said. The company is aiming to produce 10 …
There is a bad news: India may not be able to meet Millennium Development Goals for Women and Children’s health by the target year of 2015. In fact, the first report of the UN Secretary General’s independent expert review group has revealed that unless causes are urgently addressed — most …
Liberia's forestry department has given a quarter of the nation's land to logging firms over the past two years in a flurry of shady deals now under investigation by the government, advocacy group Global Witness said on Tuesday. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, fending off accusations of graft and nepotism within …
One quarter of Liberian land has been sold to logging companies in just two years, threatening the country with widespread devastation, according to a report. A new spate of logging contracts in Liberia – the most heavily forested country in west Africa – means that 40% of its forests are …
A quarter of Liberia’s total landmass has been granted to logging companies in just two years, following an explosion in the use of secretive and often illegal logging permits, an investigation by Global Witness, Save My Future Foundation (SAMFU) and Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) shows. Unless this crisis is tackled …
The government of Liberia and the World Bank have signed an agreement to finance the Liberian section of the West Africa Power Pool (WAPP), which also involves three other countries in the region. According to a statement reaching Xinhua on Tuesday, the agreement was signed at the World Bank Headquarters …
Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia and Liberia's President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf will lead a global panel to set international targets on sustainable development, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday. The panel will start work after a major summit next month in Rio de Janeiro. The …
Sesa Goa, a Vedanta Group Company, is close to acquiring development rights to mine iron ore in Liberia, West Africa . The mineral potential of the Western Cluster is divided among three deposits – Bomi Hills, Bea Mountain and Mano River. $600-m investment The company is expected to get the …
Forested nations used to fear tough rules on logging would hurt their valuable timber industries, but for Liberia they could be a way of reviving its sector -- by giving it privileged access to European markets. From 2012, any country that wants to export wood to the European Union will …
“It was a major shock when I got here,” says Tom Krueger. “You can’t describe the sweat down your back, the smell of the pus that hits your nose.” Krueger is a doctor with the Medecins Sans Frontieres (msf). He is speaking of the pain of working at Mamba Point …
One night, in a country torn by a long and harrowing armed conflict, Liberian social worker Leymah Gbowee dreamt she gathered women together to pray for peace. Her dream was realized in 2003 at St Peters Lutheran Church in the country
Since the end of the war that raged from 1989 to 2003, Liberia has suffered from chronic food insecurity, due to the destruction of its agricultural sector and basic socio-economic infrastructure. Urban agriculture provides a strategy to help reduce urban poverty, improve food security and enhance urban waste management in …
Two years after the un Security Council lifted sanctions on timber exports from Liberia, the government has resumed logging saying that it has fulfilled all measures asked by the un. The council banned exports of Liberian timber in 2003 after determining that proceeds from the industry were being used to …
The former Liberian President Charles Taylor ordered militias to eat the flesh of their enemies, a former death squad leader has told during his war crimes trial. Joseph "Zigzag' Marzah said Taylor had instructed his fighters in Liberia to eat un peacekeepers to "set an example for the people to …
WHO's 60th anniversary celebrations have left Africa in the cold. Across the continent countries face high mortality rates and deep misery, and the regional office of the UN's specialised health organisation
Despite two civil wars, illegal logging and poaching, the elusive and endangered pygmy hippos are alive and well in the forests of Liberia. A team of British conservationists, led by scientists from the Zoological Society of London, has spotted some of the rare animals at the Sapo National Park in …
The World Diamond Council has expressed concerns over reports that rough diamonds from Zimbabwe are being smuggled into South Africa for sale into the world market under fraudulent
The Liberian government has implemented new legislation on logging, after the un Security Council lifted its three-year-long ban on the country's timber exports in October 2006. The council had imposed the ban in July 2003, describing Liberia's logging industry as a threat to peace and security. The country's former president …
liberian timber: Dutch timber merchant Guus van Kouwenhoven has been sentenced to eight years in prison for breaking a UN arms embargo on Liberia. The International Court Of Justice in Hague found him guilty of selling weapons to former Liberian president Charles Taylor in return for timber rights (see
The head of the un Security Council sanctions committee has praised the Liberian government for its efforts to regulate diamond and timber trades in line with a ban imposed on them by the world body. This could lead to the lifting of the ban. A news website, however, reported that …
