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 River Gee County - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
LR-RG River Gee is one of the 15 counties of Liberia.
On the east of the county is the Cavalla River that forms Liberia's border with the Ivory Coast.
River Gee also borders Sinoe County to the west, Grand Gedeh County to the north, Grand Kru County to the south, and Maryland County, also to the South.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/River_Gee_County   (227 words)

  
 Map Zones : Liberia Map
Liberia, republic, western Africa, bounded on the north by Sierra Leone and Guinea, on the east by Côte d'Ivoire, and on the south and west by the Atlantic Ocean.
Malaria, tuberculosis, yaws, and leprosy are prevalent in Liberia.
Liberia was traditionally noted for its hospitality and academic institutions, iron mining and rubber industry booms, and cultural skills and arts and craft works.
kids.mapzones.com /world/liberia   (2692 words)

  
 Liberia Counties
The capital of the new county is Fish Town.
They appear to be subordinate to counties; that is, each territory is contained within a county and is administered from that county's capital.
County boundaries were adjusted, mainly by extending the coastal counties into the interior.
www.statoids.com /ulr.html   (835 words)

  
 MapZones.com : Liberia Government   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Liberia has a bicameral legislature which consists of 64 representatives and 26 senators.
Mayors are elected in principal cities in Liberia.
The counties are governed by superintendents appointed by the president.
www.mapzones.com /world/africa/liberia/governmentindex.php   (233 words)

  
 Ethnologue: Liberia
Montserrado County near the coast and Monrovia, primarily between the Lofa and St. Paul rivers.
Southeast, Grand Gedeh and Maryland counties near the Côte d'Ivoire border, south of Krahn, north of Klao and Fopo-Bua Grebo, west of Glaro.
MANINKA [MNI] 33,800 in Liberia (1991); 1,816,500 in Guinea (1991); 200,000 in Mali (1991); 90,000 in Sierra Leone (1991); 2,140,300 in all countries.
www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Libe.html   (1159 words)

  
 LiberianForum.Com ~ Liberian Information Online
Liberia today not to dare mention, has sitting in Liberia only a house of legislative assembly and not a house of representatives and senate, as provided for and contained under the Statutory laws and the Constitution of Liberia.
Instead of complaining and bashing in good faith that the constitutional and statutory laws of Liberia were being set aside and violated by those they called foreign nationals, these constructionists were and are conscious and intentional partakers and beneficiaries of the very un-statutory and unconstitutional acts that they are vehemently complaining about today.
Because, all of counties named hereunder are clearly and patently under developed and lacked these primary and modern facilities.
www.liberianforum.com /articles/jayweh0012.htm   (1913 words)

  
 ELCA Liberia Support Network
In addition to their primary task of educating Liberia citizens on voting rights, the Council helped to monitor the spring voter registration process, and now will coordinate ecumenical teams of international and local observers and deploy them to various counties throughout Liberia for the October 11 elections.
Liberia, Africa's oldest independent republic was founded by freed American slaves in 1847 and was relatively stable for decades.
Liberia is home to one of the largest U.N. peacekeeping forces in the world, numbering 15,000 soldiers, which has helped disarm nearly 100,000 fighters.
www.elca.org /liberia/news/elca-electionmonitors.html   (699 words)

  
 Maryland county (Liberia)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The emblem on the flag of Maryland county is a drawing of a tree and a lighthouse on a cliff.
The flag of the African Republic of Maryland was thirteen horizontal stripes alternating between yellow and white.
Influenced by Liberia, these are normally shown as white, but Phillipe believes that they should be fl because the settlement was created by freed slaves from Maryland in United States and yellow and fl are the colors of Maryland.
flagspot.net /flags/lr-my.html   (319 words)

  
 Liberia (06/06)
Liberia, which means "land of the free," was founded by free African-Americans and freed slaves from the United States in 1820.
In Liberia's early years, the Americo-Liberian settlers periodically encountered stiff and sometimes violent opposition from indigenous Africans, who were excluded from citizenship in the new Republic until 1904.
Liberia is still trying to recover from the ravages of war; until today, pipe-borne water and electricity are unavailable, and schools, hospitals, roads, and infrastructure remain derelict.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/6618.htm   (2904 words)

  
 Liberia - Country Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Liberia is only recently beginning to recover from a brutal, civil war that spanned 14 years of the West African nation's history.
With children comprising a seventy-percent of total combatants in Liberia, estimated between 27,000 to 38,000, the Secretary-General called for a separate disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programme to be in place for children, with special attention given to the needs of girls.
Women from all counties of Liberia came together in a National Women's Conference which led to the development of a consensus agenda for the period 2003-2005 and an implementation plan.
www.womenwarpeace.org /liberia/liberia.htm   (11145 words)

  
 FAO/GIEWS Special Report on LIBERIA 12/96
During 1996, Bong and Nimba counties were firmly under the control of one faction, the NPFL, and not subject to the disturbances of conflict, enabling a high level of activity by farmers and also by NGOs in the distribution of rice seed and farming tools.
The county capital of Tubmanburg has been the scene of some of the worst malnutrition seen anywhere in Liberia because the population was blockaded in the town for months (see paragraph 6.3).
The population is estimated at 10 000, with 1 500 in the county capital Zwedru.
www.fao.org /WAICENT/FAOINFO/ECONOMIC/GIEWS/ENGLISH/alertes/srlir97.htm   (7906 words)

  
 globalEDGE (TM) | country insights - Government of Liberia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Liberia is currently under a transitional government that took office in October 2003 and that will serve until January 2006.
Liberia accuses Guinea of backing rebels who have fought the Liberian Government to a standstill in the north.
Liberia is a founding member of the United Nations and its specialized agencies and is a member of the African Union (AU), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the African Development Bank (ADB), the Mano River Union (MRU), and the Non-Aligned Movement.
globaledge.msu.edu /ibrd/CountryGovt.asp?CountryID=192&RegionID=5   (377 words)

  
 Ethnologue report for Liberia
[daf] 150,800 to 200,000 in Liberia (1993 SIL).
Dialects: Closest lexical similarity is 75% with Twabo of Liberia and 73% with Trepo of Côte d'Ivoire.
Southeast, Grand Gedeh, Maryland, and Kru Coast counties near the Côte d'Ivoire border, south of Krahn, north of Klao, west of Glaro.
www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Liberia   (677 words)

  
 Politics of Liberia
Elections were held on October 15, 1985 in which Doe's National Democratic Party of Liberia[?] (NDPL) was declared winner.
On November 12, 1985, former Army Commanding General Thomas Quiwonkpa[?] invaded Liberia by way of neighboring Sierra Leone and almost succeeded in toppling the government of Samuel Doe.
Members of the Krahn-dominated Armed Forces of Liberia repelled Quiwonkpa's attack and executed him in Monrovia.
www.fastload.org /po/Politics_of_Liberia.html   (969 words)

  
 Counties of Liberia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There are 15 counties in Liberia, as of 2005.
**River Gee County was created in 2000, split from Grand Gedeh County
This page was last modified 17:50, 16 May 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Counties_of_Liberia   (71 words)

  
 Holidays in Liberia - Travelling to Liberia - Holidays in Liberia - www.reiswijs.co.uk
Roberts International Airport (RIA), 37 miles from Monrovia in Margibi County, is Liberia's premier airport, although the James Spriggs Payne Airport still operates flights from all over West Africa.
The interior hills and mountain ranges, with altitudes of 180-360m, form part of an extended peneplain, covered by evergreen (in the south) or semi-deciduous (in the north) rain forests.
Liberia, Africa's oldest republic came into existence as the result of treaties signed in 1821 between the aborigines and the American Colonization Society (ACS).
reiswijs.co.uk /destinations/africa/liberia/liberia.html   (1138 words)

  
 news - UNHCR team finds factors that may muddy issue of return to Liberia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Lofa, one of the 15 counties in Liberia, shares borders with Guinea and Sierra Leone and was the most devastated county during Liberia's 14-year conflict.
It is from this county that tens of thousands of Liberians fled between 2001 and 2003 for the refugee camps in Sierra Leone.
Although Donoh and his friends are happy with security developments in Liberia, they have left their wives and children in Sierra Leone's camps.
www.noticias.info /asp/aspcomunicados.asp?nid=87127   (972 words)

  
 Bulletin 32 UNJLC Liberia — UNJLC
The aim of the UNJLC bulletins is to provide a concise weekly overview of UNJLC activities and the present logistical situation in regard to the crisis in Liberia.
UNJLC is an inter-agency facility reporting, in the current emergency, to the Humanitarian Coordinator for Liberia, and overall to the Inter-Agency Standing Committee.
Its mandate is to coordinate and optimise the logistics capabilities of humanitarian organisations in large-scale emergencies.
www.unjlc.org /ImportedObjects/18861   (1832 words)

  
 UNDP in Liberia
A major priority for Liberia as it seeks to get back on its feet, is the reconstruction and repair of government buildings and key infrastructure, such as health centers and schools.
On 11 October 2005, within the framework of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, Liberia hosted its first democratic presidential and general election since the protracted 14-year period of conflict.
Due to the breakdown of formal education and social structures during the conflict, and the lack of experience regarding democratic election processes, UNDP, the donor community, and the National Transitional Government of Liberia (NTGL) undertook a comprehensive and expansive civic/voter education campaign that is being continued in conjuncation with the new Government of Liberia.
www.lr.undp.org /governances5.htm   (566 words)

  
 Measuagoon
Liberia's 23rd President and Liberia's and Africa's First Female Leader.
Measuagoon currently has pilot projects in 9 villages in 7 counties in Liberia.
The hope is to have a pilot project in every one of Liberia's thirteen counties.
www.measuagoon.org   (591 words)

  
 TraveltoLiberia.com-Visit Liberia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
It's time for your gateway to Liberia and its countryside.
Our site makes it easier than ever for you to plan your visit — restaurants, hotels, itineraries and much more are now at your fingertips.
If you have any questions on visiting Liberia, please send us an e-mail at info@traveltoliberia.com.
www.traveltoliberia.com   (126 words)

  
 OHCHR - Liberia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Mission has the overall mandate to support the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed in Accra on 18 August 2003 between the Government of Liberia, the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD), Movement for Democracy in Liberia (MODEL) and the political parties.
With the establishment of UNMIL the mandate of the erstwhile United Nations Office in Liberia (UNOL) was terminated and its major functions transferred to UNMIL as proposed in the Secretary-General's letter of 16 September 2003 addressed to the President of the Security Council.
Provides leadership and a forum for international and national advocacy on human rights and protection issues on Liberia.
www.unhchr.ch /html/menu2/5/liberia.htm   (412 words)

  
 Liberian Observer: Rural Farmers Can Benefit From Mobile Phone Extension
Liberia's mobile phone companies are extending services to residents in the 16 counties of Liberia.
Lone Star Cell and Libercell now lead the extension of mobile phone services, even though CellCom and Comium are also in the business.
Besides providing services in Montserrado County, Lone Star Cell and Libercell are providing mobile phone communication in Maryland, Grand Gedeh, Nimba, Bong, Lofa, Margibi, Grand Bassa, Bomi and Grand Cape Mount Counties respectively.
liberianobserver.com /news/fullstory.php/aid/476/...   (154 words)

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