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	Liberia NICS/RNIS Acticles
		Lofa county is thought to have suffered the worst impact of the civil war and at least three quarters of its population has sought refuge in IDP camps or nearby countries.
		The counties particulary affected are Lofa, Bong, Gran Gedeh, Cape Mount, Bomi, Monserado and Nimba.
		A survey of the new arrivals from Lofa county was conducted in July in Cari 1 and 2 transit shelter by ACF (ACF, 07/02).
	www.unsystem.org /scn/Publications/RNIS/countries/liberia_all.htm (18093 words)

	The Destruction of Lofa County (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It was as a result of that trip and the fertile soil of Lofa County that the county was chosen as the pilot project and Voinjama City became chosen as the headquarters of the Lofa County Agricultural Development Project of the World Bank.
		Lofa County won the contest on two consecutive occasions and was given the $10,000.00 prize, which we set aside as an initial scholarship fund for Lofa County students pursuing Agriculture at the University of Liberia and Cuttington University College respectively.
		When he succeeded in capturing Lofa County, he immediately gave orders to his drugged fighters to wage a war of vengeance on all other tribal and religious people who were not Mandingoes or Muslims to be annihilated with their cities, towns, villages, schools, clinics and churches burnt down and all of the places looted.
	www.theperspective.org /lofacounty.html (4848 words)

	BBC News \| AFRICA \| Foreign diplomats restricted in Liberia
		Lofa County is at the centre of a diamond-rich area where Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea meet.
		The government says the war in Lofa County is a result of rebel invasions backed by the neighbouring states of Sierra Leone and Guinea.
		Although the rebels in Lofa County almost certainly do have foreign backing, independent observers say an internal Liberian conflict may be taking place there at the same time.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/1320595.stm (272 words)

	Untitled Document
		We shall further ensure that county officials are accountable to the electorates in each county for their actions, the use and abuse of county resources and development programs entrusted to them, thereby giving the people some authority over the people who desire to serve them.
		As your Senator from Lofa County, we shall propose to restructure and promote an educational policy of "No Citizen Left Behind In Education" in order for all Lofa children and adults to receive maximum benefits, opportunities, better services from the value of their tax dollars in conducive and modern environments for learning.
		We once had a beautiful Lofa County and we shall have another one for generations to come by rebuilding families, social values, and empowering local communities to take charge of their own destinies.
	www.tlcafrica.com /lofa_post.htm (3808 words)

	Grand Gedeh Associaton Website
		Anthony V. Kesselly, is urging Liberian national county and professional organizations in the Americas to seek and obtain membership in the Union of Liberian Associations in the Americas (ULAA).
		Addressing himself to issues of unification in Lofa County, Chairman Kesselly, a Lofa Citizen, frowned on the emerging practice of partitioning Lofa County into smaller enclaves referred to as new counties, new districts, and new chiefdoms.
		Victor Collins, and the Lofa County Representative in the Transitional Legislative Assembly, Dr. Frederick Gbegbee.
	www.grandgedeh.com /gg-lofa1.htm (590 words)

	TLC-Africa - Internet Magazine
		Lofa County is located in the Northwestern region of Liberia.
		In 1857 the Republic of Maryland united with The Republic of Liberia and became the County of Maryland.
		Gbarnga is the largest city in Bong county and it is 204 km north-east of Monrovia.
	www.tlcafrica.com /research3.htm (639 words)

	Liberia - ACT: 24-Jan-02
		The fighting in Liberia's Lofa County, bordering on Sierra Leone and Guinea, between the Liberian Army and rebels, which began in 1999 continues.
		While the situation in most parts of Liberia is relatively secure, Lofa County is still heavily affected by the effect of rebels fighting the Liberian army.
		Lofa is considered the grain belt, or rice bowl of the country.
	iys.cidi.org /humanitarian/hsr/02a/ixl25.html (3286 words)

	Liberia Counties
		It assigns new FIPS codes to the two new Liberian counties, and changes the codes for the old counties from which they were formed.
		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)

	Dateline ACT
		An NGO worker who just visited Belefanai, the town on the border between Lofa and Bong county, reports that the displaced go through rigorous army scrutiny on the Lofa side of the bridge separating the two counties.
		Young boys and able bodied men appear to be afraid to go through the army checkpoints for fear of being conscripted into the army.
		Lofa county, with a population of around 60.000 people, is emptying as the stream of people fleeing continues.
	www.act-intl.org /news/dt_nr_2001/nrlib0201.html (261 words)

	County FAs Yearn For Renaissance
		“Nimba is a county of football and we are under pressure from the youth of the county.
		Also speaking, Lofa County Chairman Harris T. Kennedy said it was customary that the head of the LFA visits her subordinates at where they function.
		Kennedy complained about the level of destruction the war has inflicted on Lofa to the extent that he cried that the county has gone down the drain in terms of stadium, manpower and human resources.
	www.liberiansoccer.com /County_FAs_Yearn_For_Renaissance20060216.htm (644 words)

	Lofa County Washington DC Chapter Installs Officers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Lofa County Community Association of the Washington DC Metro Area including Virginia and Maryland will host its installation program on Saturday, December 14, 2002 at 9:30 PM at the famous Sahara Oasis International Cuisine and Catering Services.
		The Lofa County Association of the Washington DC Metro Area is an umbrella organization of the Federation of Lofa Associations in the Americas (FLAA).
		It must be noted that the atrocities committed on the people of Lofa County since the inception of the civil war in Liberia has been enormously inhumane.
	www.theperspective.org /lofacountyassociation_dc.html (586 words)

	ACT Appeals
		The fighting in Liberia’s Kolahun District in Lofa between the Liberian Government troops and the rebels have caused great suffering to tens of thousands of people and responsible for the destruction of infrastructures including private homes, public buildings, schools, hospitals and clinics.
		In the part of the country (upper part of Lofa County) with the current fighting, whatever little infrastructure was left up to the end of the Liberian civil crisis (1997), has now been destroyed.
		There is an estimated IDP population of 5,000 persons who have trekked through the forests and ended up in the lower part of Lofa County and in Bomi County, while there is a displaced population of 20,000 in Salayea District.
	www.act-intl.org /appeals/appeals_2001/AFLR11.html (2600 words)

	IRC \| IRC Resumes Activities in Liberia's Lofa County as Fighters Disarm
		The IRC is in the process of reopening its office in Voinjama, the main town in Liberia’s remote Lofa County.
		The IRC was forced to cease its activities and evacuate Lofa in March 2003 as heavy fighting rocked the area.
		Given the high concentration of child combatants in Lofa, the IRC is establishing two interim care centers for the children who have found themselves caught up in this brutal conflict.
	www.theirc.org /news/irc_resumes_activities_in_liberia-s_lofa_county_as_fighters_disarm.html (417 words)

	FAO/GIEWS - Foodcrops & Shortages 01/00 - LIBERIA* (2 February) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Although a shortage of basic agricultural inputs was a limiting factor for farmers, it was minimized by substantial distribution of seeds and tools and improved technical assistance to resettling farm families.
		In Lofa County, most of the estimated 25 000 displaced people are farmers who have not been able to harvest their crops.
		However, humanitarian programmes for Liberian returnees and Sierra Leonean refugees were disrupted by insecurity and looting in Lofa county, where the nutritional and health conditions of displaced people have deteriorated.
	www.fao.org /DOCREP/004/X4534E/pays/lir0001e.htm (304 words)

	allAfrica.com: Liberia: Elephants Invade Farms In Lofa - Destroy Several Crops (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Fayah Tamba, believed to be in his late 50s from the village of Tenebu, lamented that farmers in the county were no longer in the position to carry out farming activities as wild elephants from the Lofa forest continue to chase them, destroying their rice and cassava farms.
		Oldman Tamba, flanked by his fellow villagers,mainly elderly women, indicated that local authorities in the county have hired the services of experienced hunters to kill the animals, although their efforts to stop the elephants destruction have been unsuccessful, since their destructive activities have been extended to other towns and villages in the district.
		Meanwhile, the people of Lofa County are calling on the Liberian Government and international partners, specifically the Worldwide Fund, to assist in curbing the destruction of crops by driving away the elephants from their towns, villages and farms, to enable them rebuild their lives.
	allafrica.com /stories/200610120814.html (516 words)

	CHF International: News: Road to Lofa Peace Underscored
		He named the actual cases of conflict in Lofa as mainly: Ethnicity culture, religion, inter-marriages, access and control of land as well as the reintegration of sex-combatants.
		Elaborating on the topic: “Towards Genuine Peace and Reconciliation The Lofa County Case,” Mr.
		He then underscored the for road building network major challenge if the building efforts are to continue smoothly, and he concluded calling on Lofa citizens outside of the county to use influence in assisting to about durable peace in county.
	www.chfhq.org /content/news/detail/2928 (428 words)

	TLP: LinkG
		It is situated in the northwest of Liberia, occupies an area of approximately 1,263 square miles, and was estimated to have a population of 131,227 inhabitants before the war.
		Gbarpolu county is bordered by Lofa County to the north, Bomi County to the south, Bong County to the west, and Grand Cape Mount County and Sierra Leone to the east.
		Grand Kru County is located along the coast of south eastern Liberia bordered by Sinoe County to the northwest, River Gee County in the north east and Maryland County to the southeast.
	liberian.tripod.com /linkG.html (1232 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Massacre in Zorzor, Lofa County in May 1991: Mangouhb Menior of the NPFL murdered 16 persons of the Mandingo and Gbandi ethnic groups in Zorzor.
		Slain in Gardnersville, Montserrado County in October 1992 as reported by JPC investigation: During the infamous “Operation Octopus” launched by NPFL, five Catholic Nuns were slain in the area.
		Massacre in Nikagabozu, Lofa County on September 2, 1999 as reported by UL student hailing from Quardu-Gboni Mandingo Chiefdom/ the New democrat Newspaper, Vol.
	www.nextliberia.com /major.html (6162 words)

	Liberia
		Several thousand troops deployed in northern counties were fighting armed dissidents; however, there were few troops deployed to maintain security in other rural areas of the country.
		Many of the abuses were linked to ongoing violence in Lofa County between security forces and antigovernment dissidents who launched a series of crossborder incursions from Guinea.
		In some counties, the structure that serves as a jail is a container with bars at one end.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/af/8388.htm (11127 words)

	Press Releases: West Africa, Liberia: The short road home to Lofa county
		Starting this week, UNHCR is repatriating refugees to Lofa county through a more direct route that will more than halve the travelling time to Liberia's largest area of return.
		The 14-year Liberia conflict ended in August 2003, but the county was one of the last to be declared safe by Liberia's National Security Assessment Committee for Resettlement in February this year.
		But despite the horrors they experienced, the refugees are eager to return to their small county far from the conveniences of the Liberian capital, Monrovia.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/HMYT-6BTM32?OpenDocument (630 words)

	BBC News \| AFRICA \| Liberia 'tortures' Lofa civilians
		Amnesty International has said Liberia is involved in the "rampant torture and killing of unarmed citizens" suspected of collaboration with a rebellion in Lofa County in the north of the country.
		The war in Lofa County is, even by the government's own account, extremely serious.
		The human rights group said the fighting in Lofa County and the imminent consideration of more UN sanctions against Liberia had caused government repression to reach alarming levels.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/1306623.stm (420 words)

	[No title]
		The pictorial story of: “The rural economy –Lofa County in the 1970’s” is based on the slide collection from Dr.
		For the purpose of the study van Santen stayed in Foya, Lofa County, in a project house from 1970 to 1972.
		Later Gbarnga County was added to the study and for that part of the work van Santen stayed in the Agricultural Research Station in Suakoko, Gbarnga County, during 1973.
	www.liberiapastandpresent.org /SantenCharlesVan/Author.htm (689 words)

	news - UNHCR team finds factors that may muddy issue of return to Liberia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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.
		Vamunya Fofanah was the chairperson of the Council of Elders in Largo, a camp where 70 percent of the residents are from Lofa.
	www.noticias.info /asp/aspComunicados.asp?nid=87127 (977 words)

	International Medical Corps \| IMC Part of New Chapter of Hope in Lofa County (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Lofa, the largest county in northern Liberia, was also the hardest-hit area during the country’s 14-year civil war.
		With the end of the civil war, Lofa is experiencing the highest returnee rate in the entire country.
		IMC arrived in Lofa County in 2004 and began forming new VHCs and revitalizing old ones.
	www.imcworldwide.org /loc_liberia_lofa_county.shtml (648 words)

	Liberia
		Mandingo residents of Lofa County continued to be afraid to return to their homes.
		In October 2000 in Nimba County, a property dispute between Mandingos and members of the Mano and Gio ethnic groups led to rioting that reportedly killed four persons.
		Ethnic tensions continued in Lofa County between the predominantly Muslim Mandingo ethnic group and the Lorma ethnic group.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2001/index.cfm?docid=5619 (1533 words)

	Findings and Recommendations
		Some ethnic Mandingo returnees in Lofa and Nimba counties are reportedly unable to regain possession of their homes and properties.
		However, recent insecurity in Liberia's Lofa county and closure of the Guinea-Liberia border have delayed repatriation activities, forcing alterations in UNHCR's schedule.
		Liberian refugees who are ethnic Krahn, ethnic Mandingo, and/or refugees who fled from Liberia's Lofa county are most likely to delay repatriation as long as possible because of concerns about ethnic tensions in Liberia and recent violence in Lofa county.
	www.fol.org /reports/lst_page3.html (6455 words)

	Liberia: War in Lofa County does not justify killing, torture and abduction - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The use by the Liberian government of Sierra Leonean fighters in Lofa County seems to be corroborated by the number of wounded soldiers speaking Krio, a Sierra Leonean language, who have been seen taken to Monrovia for medical treatment since the renewal of fighting in Lofa County in July 2000.
		As fighting in Lofa County continues and implementation of further UN sanctions on Liberia approach, internal repression and intolerance by the government of any form of scrutiny and opposition have escalated.
		Renewal of fighting in Lofa County has resulted in thousands of Liberians, including women and children, fleeing to safer areas of the country and exposing themselves to frequent harassment and looting by Liberian security forces at checkpoints since July 2000.
	web.amnesty.org /ai.nsf/Index/AFR340032001 (9813 words)

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