Iron ore deal 'bad for Liberia'
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A deal between Liberia and the world's largest steel company is unfair and bad for the country, campaigners say.
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Â· Ex-ruler of Liberia accused of crimes in Sierra Leone  Â· Taylor is first African leader to face prosecution
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BEIJING - A group of state-owned Chinese companies has agreed to help finance and build an iron ore and infrastructure project worth nearly $2 billion (Australian) in the Pilbara region of western Australia.
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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor is believed to have substantial financial assets despite his demand that the court prosecuting him for war crimes cover his legal costs because he is indigent, U.N. investigators said in a report obtained Thursday.
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The war crimes tribunal trying former Liberian President Charles Taylor for allegedly orchestrating atrocities in West Africa's upheavals needs more money to complete its cases, Human Rights Watch said Thursday.
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HARARE, Dec 11  (IPS) - With an economy tottering on the brink of collapse  and an unenviable political situation, civil society  organisations in Zimbabwe have every reason to worry about the  implications of the interim agreement on trade in goods that  their country has just signed as part of the economic partnership  agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU).
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Liberia's auditor general is told to tell MPs why he thinks the government is "three times more corrupt" than before.
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The Hollywood movie "The Blood Diamond" about gem smuggling in Africa could hinder Sierra Leone's postwar recovery as its struggles to legitimize its vital diamond exports, officials in the West African state say.
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Drastic coal shortages despite massive natural deposits have had a ripple effect throughout Zimbabwe's economy and ruined a deal to renovate the country's biggest steelworks, the government has acknowledged.
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The worldâs largest producer of iron ore, Companhia Vale do Rio Doce of Brazil, said it was in talks with a rival, Swiss-based Xstrata, about a merger.
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Ciata Victor gave up a high-paying tech job, a spacious condo and a first-world life in Maryland to return home to an African capital that barely has electricity or running water. After 26 years of watching from afar as her native Liberia was ravaged by coups and war, Victor says she's home to stay. And she's started a business &#151; running a seven-computer Internet cafe using a generator and a borrowed satellite hookup.
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INSTABILITY is a way of life in West Africa, and Ivory Coast is the latest tragic example. A 2-year-old cease-fire, brokered by France, between Muslim rebels and the government of President Laurent Gbagbo
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Pressure mounted on Sunday on a  clutch of mainly developing countries to sign off on debt  relief for Liberia held up over how to finance the  International Monetary Fund's portion of the deal.
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Bangladesh has bowed to demands from protestors to cancel a 734 million pound (1.4-billion dollar) plan by British firm Asia Energy to build an open-pit coal mine, a minister has said.
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The collapse of global trade talks  was bad news for Africa, condemning the world's poorest  continent to an uncertain future of high tariffs and lagging  competitiveness, officials and experts said on Monday.
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Operations are OK, but the dollar's doing definite damage to this metal miner.
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Leading world steel group Areclor Mittal has said it had agreed to a revision of an agreement giving it access to big resourcse of iron ore in Liberia, notably by increasing its investment.