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The Liberian government has announced that it is in the final stages of securing a U.S. $1.6 billion Indonesian investment in palm oil production which is expected to create 35,000 jobs.

In Liberia, the opposition Congress for Democratic Change party has won a highly contested senatorial by-election runoff over President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's ruling Unity Party.

The Congress for Democratic Change candidate Geraldine Doe-Sherif, pulled 33,874 votes in the first round while the ruling Unity Party candidate, Mr.

Tuesday's senatorial by-election runoff is generating enormous excitement in Liberia's capital, Monrovia.

This is 7-month-old Inga Phillips's third visit to the Slipway health centre. The clinic's is unable to care for severely malnourished children with diarrhoea and dehydration.

One of them was food security. Since the days of its first president, Julius Nyerere, Tanzania has been known as an island of peace and stability, but it has remained poor.

The Beijing Platform for Action in 1995 set out an agenda to address gender equality in priority areas, including poverty, education, and health care.

Police said the parents, refugees from the West African nation, used sticks, wires and their fists to hit their young daughter.

Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor took a swipe at the organisers of an education summit in Doha, Qatar, because their video presentation only reflected the achievements of men.

The chairman of Liberiaa s National Elections Commission , James Fromayan says partisans of football legend George Weah's Congress for Democratic Change party have threatened to burn down his house and eliminate him in the process.

Andrea Ernst at the Mediabistro blog Fishbowl NY covered Time's little panel discussion on who they should choose as "Person of the Year." Listen to the judgment of ABC's Barbara Walters: Walters suggested Nancy Pelosi, Steve Jobs, Michelle Obama, Warren Buffett, Google, the Taliban, and Liberal President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

Liberia's National Elections Commission said it will announce the final results of a highly contested senatorial by-election this Saturday.

Six years after a civil war that killed 250,000 and displaced hundreds of thousands more, justice is at the top of Liberia's list of needs.

Thousands of Liberians living in Montserrado county, the seat of the country's capital Monrovia, headed for the polls Tuesday to cast their votes in a senatorial by-election to replace Senator Hannah Brent, who died in August.

Therea s a lot of anticipation in Liberiaa s capital, Monrovia where a by-election to fill a vacant senate seat is taking place Tuesday.

President Ellen Johnson has commended the Government and people of China for their continued support to Africa's social and micro-economic development.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has met with several African leaders on the sidelines of the fourth ministerial meeting of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation which opened on Sunday at this Egyptian tourist resort.

For the first time in the history of the two countries, the West Africa state of Liberia and Qatar have established diplomatic ties, the Liberian Foreign Ministry has said.

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right speaks as Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in Washington, DC Since its independence more than 160 years ago, Liberia has often been said to have a special relationship with the United States.

Traders at the Ma Juah market in Vai Town and the Redemption market along the Somalia Drive have described the candidacy of private sector Guru Clemenceau Urey as a unique chance to address issues affecting the Informal sector of the Liberian economy.