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Reax from Liberia and SLeone as court upholds sentence for ex-president
More than a decade after he helped rebels go on a murderous rampage in Sierra Leone, Liberia's former president Charles Taylor was definitively convicted and imprisoned on Thursday for 50 years.
The appeals chamber of the Special Court...
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Bodies remain at US embassy as rebels attack
1. Wide shot people walking up street
2. Mid shot gunman
3. Wide shot of street
4. Pan over bodies outside US embassy
5. Man sweeping up outside US embassy
6. Wide shot bodies outside US embassy
7. Close up bullet hole in window
8. Mid...
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Reactions from victims as court upholds sentence for Liberia's Taylor; convoy leaves
Human rights groups and victims of war crimes in Sierra Leone welcomed the court's decision to uphold the conviction and 50-year sentence of former Liberian President Charles Taylor.
The appeals chamber of the Special Court for Sierra...
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Malnourished childern received food aid
Samuel K. Doe stadium, Monrovia, Liberia
1. Straw shelter for French non-governmental organization "Action contre le Faim" (Action against Famine)
2. Various of malnourished children
3. Internally displaced people
4. An internally...
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Ghana/Liberia - Refugees Allowed To Dock
Thousands of desperate Liberian refugees were granted shelter in Ghana on Wednesday (15/5) after being allowed to disembark from a rusty and leaking Nigerian-registered freighter at the port of Takoradi. But in Monrovia, fighting raged...
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Taylor arrives at his new home
1. Arrival sign at Calabar airport
2. Security personnel with guns waiting for plane to land
3. Plane taxiing
4. Former Liberian president Charles Taylor and wife getting out of plane
5. Governor of Kalabar, Donald Duke working in...
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SOUTH KOREA: LIBERIAN SOCCER STAR GEORGE WEAH CALL TO UN
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Soccer star George Weah has called on the United Nations to stop the slaughter in his home country, Liberia.
Speaking during a tour of South Korea by his Italian club A-C Milan, Weah said the only chance for peace lay with...
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LIBERIA: MONROVIA: WARRING FACTIONS CONTINUE TO FIGHT
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In a sign that Monrovia's six-week siege is far from over - warring Liberian factions continue to battle on the streets of the Liberian capital.
The suburbs of the war-torn capital are also rife with factional battles as...
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SIERRA LEONE: EVACUATION FROM LIBERIA PICKS UP SPEED
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The evacuation of foreigners from the war-torn capital of Liberia is picking up steam.
The U-S says it has flown some 900 people to safety, while the U-N says it's planning to get its workers out by boat.
Thousands more...
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President comments on Iraq, Liberia and Mideast
1. Wide shots of Bush at podium
2. Cutaway of press
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) US President George W. Bush
"There are some who feel like that if they attack us that we may decide to leave prematurely. They don't understand what they're...
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Liberians prepare to go to the polls
1. Various of people in street
2. Billboard of presidential candidate George Weah
3. Posters of candidates on hoarding
4. Close up of poster of candidate William Tubman
5. Poster of female candidate
6. Various posters
7. Ellen Johnson...
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MSF briefing on French worker who contracted Ebola in Liberia being evacuated to France
Officials from international health organisation Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Thursday that it was taking too long to evacuate a French nurse infected with the Ebola virus from Liberia to Paris.
The woman, who first showed...
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GUINEA: U-N-H-C-R COMMISSIONER LUBBERS MEETS REFUGEES
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The new U-N High Commissioner for refugees, Ruud Lubbers, met with Guinea refugees on Monday as part of his nine-day West African tour.
The refugees are heading back to Freetown in boats that chartered by the U-N-H-C-R.
The...
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Neighbours of Ebola treatment centres afraid, survivors stigmatised as death toll in WAfrica passes 3000
The World Health Organisation (WHO) announced on Friday that the number of deaths linked to an Ebola outbreak in West Africa has passed three-thousand.
The new tolls showed that there were more than 150 deaths in Liberia alone in just...
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VOICER Handover to US forces, rebels cede control of port
Gabriel Tucker Bridge, also known as New Bridge, which marked front-line between government and rebel forces
0000 People gathered behind US humvees on government side of bridge
0004 LURD leader formally ceding power to head of West...
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Minister says Ebola causing recession, new hospital under construction
Liberia's Finance Minister said on Friday the Ebola outbreak was putting the country into a recession.
Amara Konneh said the government had revised growth projections to 2.5 percent from 5.9 percent.
"That is a almost a 50 percent...
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WRAP Inauguration of Africa's 1st woman President, adds speech
1. Wide of US plane on tarmac
2. US First Lady, Laura Bush, disembarking
3. UN helicopter flying overhead
4. Liberian opposition leader George Weah arriving
5. Liberian President-elect Ellen Johnson Sirleaf arriving and waving to...
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IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde warns that if not contained, the Ebola virus might develop into something that would be a very serious concern, could pose significant risks for global economy. (Oct. 2)
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde warns that if not contained, the Ebola virus might develop into something that would be a very serious concern, could pose significant risks for global economy. (Oct. 2)
The International Monetary...
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Ebola outbreak puts extreme strain on fabric of society in capital
On a street corner in the centre of Liberia's capital Monrovia, a large crowd has gathered to listen to the ministry of a Christian preacher.
With the number of deaths linked to West Africa's Ebola outbreak having already passed...
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Liberia - Evacuation Of Foreigners
As UN staff and foreign aid workers joined the flood of evacuees
from Monrovia on Saturday (13/4), fears are mounting for the
welfare of the Liberians they are leaving behind.
helicopter landing in US embassy compound
evacuees to...
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Liberia - Heavy Fighting Spreads
While fighting continues in the Liberian capital Monrovia, more
Liberians are trying to escape the violence. Heavy fighting spread on Thursday (16/5) into the suburbs around Monrovia. It is believed five of the country's seven rebel...
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A task force in Monrovia, Liberia work to see if a recently deceased person was infected with the deadly Ebola virus. (Oct. 4)
The raging Ebola outbreak, which has taken more than 2,000 lives in Liberia, has made some people divert their careers from the usual path as part of joint efforts to contain the spread of the deadly disease.
Police Commissioner Samuel...
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Ghana - Summit Cancelled
A summit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was cancelled on Wednesday (8/5)...the very day it was scheduled to take place. The regional government ministers had been gathering in the
Ghanaian capital Accra since...
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WHO says number of new Ebola cases could reach 10,000 per week by December
The number of new Ebola cases could be "anywhere between 5,000 and 10,000 cases per week in December," a spokesperson for the World Health Organisation said on Wednesday.
Tarik Jasarevic told AP that this was "not something we want to...