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CENTRAL AND EASTERN AFRICA: IRIN weekly humanitarian round-up 631 18 May 2012
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Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the west coast of Africa, bordered by Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Côte d'Ivoire. Liberia, which means "Land of the Free," was founded as an independent nation for free-born and formerly enslaved African Americans. Recently it has witnessed two civil wars, the First Liberian Civil War... Full Article At Wikipedia.org
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