Radio is the main news source and there is a lively commercial sector. There is real media freedom, says watchdog Reporters Without Borders. Some key events in Liberia's history:. Up to , are killed, while thousands more are mutilated and raped, often by armies of drugged child soldiers led by ruthless warlords. Government of Liberia. UN news about Liberia.
Republic of Liberia Capital: Monrovia. Image source, Getty Images. Labor force: 1. Industries: rubber processing, palm oil processing, timber, diamonds. Natural resources: iron ore, timber, diamonds, gold, hydropower. Communications: Telephones: main lines in use: 3, ; mobile cellular: 2. Broadcast media: 3 private TV stations; satellite TV service available; 1 state-owned radio station; about 15 independent radio stations broadcasting in Monrovia, with another 25 local stations operating in other areas; transmissions of 2 international broadcasters are available Internet users: 20, Transportation: Railways: total: km; note: most sections of the railways were inoperable because of damage suffered during the civil wars from to , but many are being rebuilt Highways: total: 10, km; paved: km; unpaved: 9, km est.
Ports and harbors: Buchanan, Monrovia. Airports: 28 International disputes: although civil unrest continues to abate with the assistance of 6, UN Mission in Liberia peacekeepers, as of January , Liberian refugees still remain in Guinea, Cote d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone, and Ghana; Liberia, in turn, shelters refugees fleeing turmoil in Cote d'Ivoire; despite the presence of over 9, UN forces in Cote d'Ivoire since , ethnic conflict continues to spread into neighboring states who can no longer send their migrant workers to Ivorian cocoa plantations; UN sanctions ban Liberia from exporting diamonds and timber.
Major sources and definitions. It is comparable in size to Tennessee. Most of the country is a plateau covered by dense tropical forests, which thrive under an annual rainfall of about in. Africa's first republic, Liberia was founded in as a result of the efforts of the American Colonization Society to settle freed American slaves in West Africa. The society contended that the emigration of blacks to Africa was an answer to the problem of slavery and the incompatibility of the races.
Over the course of forty years, about 12, slaves were voluntarily relocated. Liberia's indigenous population is composed of 16 different ethnic groups. The government of Africa's first republic was modeled after that of the United States, and Joseph Jenkins Roberts of Virginia was elected the first president.
Ironically, Liberia's constitution denied indigenous Liberians equal to the lighter-skinned American immigrants and their descendants. After , considerable progress was made toward opening up the interior of the country, a process that facilitated by the establishment of a mile km railroad to the Bomi Hills from Monrovia. In July , while serving his sixth term as president, William V.
Tubman died following surgery and was succeeded by his longtime associate, Vice President William R. Tolbert, Jr.
Tolbert was ousted in a military coup on April 12, , by Master Sgt. Samuel K. World View: Continent View:. Official Name. Republic of Liberia. Common Name. Bordering Countries. Guinea Ivory Coast Sierra Leone. Calling Code. Liberia Dollar.
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