<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - liberia</title><link>http://www.newsvine.com/liberia</link><description>Newsvine - liberia</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2013</copyright><lastBuildDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:32:56 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:46:09 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Liberian president appoints new chief justice</title>
<description><![CDATA[Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says Francis Korkpor will be the country's new chief justice.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/15/17763683-liberian-president-appoints-new-chief-justice</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/15/17763683-liberian-president-appoints-new-chief-justice</guid><category>liberia</category><category>justice</category><category>world-news</category><category>ellen-johnson-sirleaf</category><category>chief-justice</category><category>af</category><category>francis-korkpor</category><pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:31:55 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Former Liberian president Moses Blah dies</title>
<description><![CDATA[Officials say that Moses Blah, the man who served as Liberia's president for two months after Charles Taylor stepped down, has died.  He was in his mid-60s.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Paye-Layleh]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Jonathan Paye-Layleh]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/01/17554771-former-liberian-president-moses-blah-dies</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/01/17554771-former-liberian-president-moses-blah-dies</guid><category>obit</category><category>liberia</category><category>world-news</category><category>charles-taylor</category><category>blah</category><category>af</category><pubDate>Mon, 1 Apr 2013 17:22:11 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>UN: Border violence halts Ivorian refugee return</title>
<description><![CDATA[U.N. officials in Liberia say they've temporarily halted the repatriation of tens of thousands of refugees from Ivory Coast because of continued unrest near the border between the two countries.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/26/17475287-un-border-violence-halts-ivorian-refugee-return</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/03/26/17475287-un-border-violence-halts-ivorian-refugee-return</guid><category>liberia</category><category>refugees</category><category>ivory-coast</category><category>world-news</category><category>af</category><pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:54:13 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Guinea honors 11 officers who died in plane crash</title>
<description><![CDATA[The 11 Guinean officers who died in a plane crash in Liberia are being honored at a state funeral presided over by the West African country's president.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/12/16948025-guinea-honors-11-officers-who-died-in-plane-crash</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/12/16948025-guinea-honors-11-officers-who-died-in-plane-crash</guid><category>liberia</category><category>plane-crash</category><category>west-african</category><category>world-news</category><category>guinea</category><category>af</category><pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:41:07 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Guineans killed in Liberia plane crash flown home</title>
<description><![CDATA[Liberia's information minister says the 11 bodies of the Guineans killed after a military plane crashed in Liberia will be flown back to their homeland.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/11/16924324-guineans-killed-in-liberia-plane-crash-flown-home</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/02/11/16924324-guineans-killed-in-liberia-plane-crash-flown-home</guid><category>liberia</category><category>crash</category><category>plane</category><category>plane-crash</category><category>world-news</category><category>af</category><category>armed-forces-day</category><pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:50:02 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=954a709e-0074-4176-a125-4f5480c9ef0a.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=954a709e-0074-4176-a125-4f5480c9ef0a.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Rescue workers inspect the wreckage of a military plane that crashed near Monrovia, Liberia, Monday, Feb. 11, 2013.  Eleven bodies were pulled from the debris, with Guinea's army chief of staff and top military officers among its passengers, officials said Monday.(AP Photo)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=adc22026-3348-4463-a4a2-496f80aa0997.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="313" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=adc22026-3348-4463-a4a2-496f80aa0997.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="196" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this Oct. 2, 2012 photo, Guinea's Army Chief of Staff Gen. Souleymane Kelefa Diallo participates in Independence Day celebrations, in Conakry, Guinea. Officials said Monday, Feb. 11, 2013, that Guinea's army chief of staff and other top military officers were among the eleven dead whose bodies were pulled from the wreckage of a military plane that crashed in Liberia.  The military officers were on their way to attend Liberia's Armed Forces Day celebrations. (AP Photo)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=1a5949b5-0c08-4e1a-b09b-97fd7e35fc21.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="283" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=1a5949b5-0c08-4e1a-b09b-97fd7e35fc21.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="217" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this Oct. 2, 2012 photo, Guinea's Army Chief of Staff Gen. Souleymane Kelefa Diallo participates in Independence Day celebrations, in Conakry, Guinea. Officials said Monday, Feb. 11, 2013, that Guinea's army chief of staff and other top military officers were among the eleven dead whose bodies were pulled from the wreckage of a military plane that crashed in Liberia.  The military officers were on their way to attend Liberia's Armed Forces Day celebrations. (AP Photo)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Liberia exposes finances with city billboard</title>
<description><![CDATA[Liberia's people have a novel way of finding out how their government is spending their money.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Paye-Layleh]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Jonathan Paye-Layleh]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/25/16699473-liberia-exposes-finances-with-city-billboard</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/25/16699473-liberia-exposes-finances-with-city-billboard</guid><category>liberia</category><category>billboard</category><category>world-news</category><category>af</category><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:22:40 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=6aa8f473-b2c2-4cea-b26d-e35a62dd2f94.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="266" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=6aa8f473-b2c2-4cea-b26d-e35a62dd2f94.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A man looks up at Liberia's new 'Open Budget Initiative' electronic billboard, located in a heavily trafficked area of Morovia, Liberia, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. Liberia's government is sharing its financial outlook with the men and women on the street with a new electronic information billboard, switched on Wednesday, Jan. 23. The U.S.-supported project aims to improve state transparency. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=7a2db477-c651-41d8-b846-f22766d85310.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="266" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=7a2db477-c651-41d8-b846-f22766d85310.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Passersby stop to look up at Liberia's new 'Open Budget Initiative' electronic billboard, located in a heavily trafficked area of Morovia, Liberia, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. Liberia's government is sharing its financial outlook with the men and women on the street with a new electronic information billboard, switched on Wednesday, Jan. 23. The U.S.-supported project aims to improve state transparency. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=2e799d64-3da2-4390-a7f5-8e6c668b9cf8.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="266" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=2e799d64-3da2-4390-a7f5-8e6c668b9cf8.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;People walk past Liberia's new 'Open Budget Initiative' electronic billboard, located in a heavily trafficked area of Morovia, Liberia, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. Liberia's government is sharing its financial outlook with the men and women on the street with a new electronic information billboard, switched on Wednesday, Jan. 23. The U.S.-supported project aims to improve state transparency. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Jailed Liberian ex-president wants his pension</title>
<description><![CDATA[Charles Taylor may be locked up while appealing his 50-year prison sentence for war crimes, but the former Liberian president still wants his impoverished country to pay his pension.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Paye-Layleh]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Jonathan Paye-Layleh]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/19/16600501-jailed-liberian-ex-president-wants-his-pension</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/19/16600501-jailed-liberian-ex-president-wants-his-pension</guid><category>liberia</category><category>taylor</category><category>pension</category><category>world-news</category><category>charles-taylor</category><category>af</category><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 16:07:55 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=2b53a590-53e0-4b2f-b020-f2f25d14b8fc.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="268" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=2b53a590-53e0-4b2f-b020-f2f25d14b8fc.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="81" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this April 3, 2006 file photo, former Liberian President Charles Taylor makes his first appearance at the Special Court in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Charles Taylor may be locked up while appealing his 50-year prison sentence for war crimes, but the former Liberian president still wants his impoverished country to pay his pension. The 64-year-old who was once one of West Africa's most powerful figures has written Liberia's Senate seeking at least $25,000 per year in retirement pay he insists he's owed under the constitution. (AP Photo/George Osodi, Pool, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Liberia seeks to extradite 7 alleged mercenaries</title>
<description><![CDATA[Liberia has petitioned a criminal court to approve the extradition of seven alleged mercenaries arrested along the border with Ivory Coast, justice ministry officials said late Wednesday. But defense lawyers are contesting the move, arguing that it's unclear if the men being deported are actually from the Ivory Coast as the government claims.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Paye-Layleh]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Jonathan Paye-Layleh]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/26/16170837-liberia-seeks-to-extradite-7-alleged-mercenaries</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/26/16170837-liberia-seeks-to-extradite-7-alleged-mercenaries</guid><category>liberia</category><category>justice-ministry</category><category>ivory-coast</category><category>west-african</category><category>world-news</category><category>mercenaries</category><category>af</category><pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2012 21:33:36 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Liberian children pay tribute to Conn. victims</title>
<description><![CDATA[Twenty Liberian schoolchildren from a school sponsored by the Newtown Rotary Club in this West African nation on Friday gathered at the U.S. Embassy in Monrovia to give their condolences over the Connecticut school tragedy.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Paye-Layleh]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Jonathan Paye-Layleh]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/21/16070125-liberian-children-pay-tribute-to-conn-victims</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/21/16070125-liberian-children-pay-tribute-to-conn-victims</guid><category>liberia</category><category>shooting</category><category>school</category><category>west-african</category><category>world-news</category><category>af</category><category>connecticut-school</category><category>twenty-liberian</category><category>newtown-rotary-club</category><pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:47:37 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Liberian schoolchildren send condolences to Conn.</title>
<description><![CDATA[Schoolchildren in the West African nation of Liberia are sending their condolences to the victims of the Connecticut school shooting that left 20 children dead.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/18/15995010-liberian-schoolchildren-send-condolences-to-conn</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/12/18/15995010-liberian-schoolchildren-send-condolences-to-conn</guid><category>liberia</category><category>shooting</category><category>west-african</category><category>world-news</category><category>af</category><category>schoolchildren</category><pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:39:48 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Liberians launch campaign against gay marriage</title>
<description><![CDATA[A few hundred Liberians representing the Christian and Muslim faiths and civil society organizations gathered here Saturday to launch a campaign to press the government to ban same-sex marriage.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Paye-Layleh]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Jonathan Paye-Layleh]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/10/15074861-liberians-launch-campaign-against-gay-marriage</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/11/10/15074861-liberians-launch-campaign-against-gay-marriage</guid><category>liberia</category><category>marriage</category><category>gay</category><category>anti</category><category>world-news</category><category>af</category><category>anti-gay-marriage</category><pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2012 17:24:24 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Money shortage impedes investigation for funds</title>
<description><![CDATA[Stephen Rapp, United States Ambassador for War Crimes, said a lack of resources impedes the tracing of millions of dollars allegedly stolen by former Liberian President Charles Taylor, who was recently sentenced to 50 years for war crimes in neighboring Sierra Leone.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/10/14341938-money-shortage-impedes-investigation-for-funds</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/10/14341938-money-shortage-impedes-investigation-for-funds</guid><category>sierra-leone</category><category>liberia</category><category>taylor</category><category>world-news</category><category>af</category><category>united-states-ambassador</category><pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:16:30 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Police kill 2 escaped inmates, detain 12 others</title>
<description><![CDATA[A Liberian police official says police have killed two inmates who broke out of prison last week and arrested 12 others in the West African nation.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/04/14217810-police-kill-2-escaped-inmates-detain-12-others</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/04/14217810-police-kill-2-escaped-inmates-detain-12-others</guid><category>liberia</category><category>west-african</category><category>world-news</category><category>jailbreak</category><category>af</category><pubDate>Thu, 4 Oct 2012 10:35:19 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Liberia: Opposition outrage at president</title>
<description><![CDATA[Liberia's opposition is outraged by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's recent admission that some of her supporters hid their sons' cards to prevent them from voting against her in 2005.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Paye-Layleh]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Jonathan Paye-Layleh]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/02/14183594-liberia-opposition-outrage-at-president</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/02/14183594-liberia-opposition-outrage-at-president</guid><category>liberia</category><category>world-news</category><category>ellen-johnson-sirleaf</category><category>sirleaf</category><category>af</category><pubDate>Tue, 2 Oct 2012 16:02:14 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Liberia: Cabinet ministers sign contracts</title>
<description><![CDATA[President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf signs "performance contracts" with her cabinet ministers to set specific targets and goals.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/09/18/13942204-liberia-cabinet-ministers-sign-contracts</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/09/18/13942204-liberia-cabinet-ministers-sign-contracts</guid><category>liberia</category><category>world-news</category><category>ellen-johnson-sirleaf</category><category>performance</category><category>af</category><pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:12:45 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Liberia: New austerity budget cuts expenses</title>
<description><![CDATA[Liberia has a new $672 million austerity budget that cut official travel expenses to channel more funds to infrastructure.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Paye-Layleh]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Jonathan Paye-Layleh]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/09/06/13707946-liberia-new-austerity-budget-cuts-expenses</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/09/06/13707946-liberia-new-austerity-budget-cuts-expenses</guid><category>liberia</category><category>world-news</category><category>af</category><category>austerity</category><pubDate>Thu, 6 Sep 2012 17:51:48 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>One-quarter of Liberia handed to loggers, report</title>
<description><![CDATA[International logging companies are skirting the rules and have used a loophole in Liberian law which has granted them access to as much as one-quarter of Liberia's landmass, according to London-based watchdog group Global Witness.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Paye-Layleh]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Jonathan Paye-Layleh]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/09/04/13655239-one-quarter-of-liberia-handed-to-loggers-report</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/09/04/13655239-one-quarter-of-liberia-handed-to-loggers-report</guid><category>liberia</category><category>logging</category><category>world-news</category><category>af</category><category>global-witness</category><pubDate>Tue, 4 Sep 2012 11:29:13 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Activists pressure Liberian leader over gay bill</title>
<description><![CDATA[Gay rights activists are starting an online petition calling for Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to lose her Nobel Peace Prize if she signs into law a bill criminalizing same-sex marriage.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/25/12948816-activists-pressure-liberian-leader-over-gay-bill</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/25/12948816-activists-pressure-liberian-leader-over-gay-bill</guid><category>liberia</category><category>gay-marriage</category><category>marriage</category><category>nobel-peace-prize</category><category>world-news</category><category>ellen-johnson-sirleaf</category><category>af</category><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2012 14:37:10 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Liberian policemen suspected of gang raping teen</title>
<description><![CDATA[Authorities in Liberia say a group of police officers in the West African country are suspected of repeatedly gang raping a 16-year-old girl and holding her hostage for several days.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/13/12722866-liberian-policemen-suspected-of-gang-raping-teen</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/07/13/12722866-liberian-policemen-suspected-of-gang-raping-teen</guid><category>liberia</category><category>gang</category><category>rape</category><category>west-african</category><category>world-news</category><category>af</category><category>alleged-gang-rape</category><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:01:59 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Group: Liberia militias attacking Ivorian villages</title>
<description><![CDATA[Armed groups in Liberia who supported Ivory Coast's former president have killed at least 40 civilians in cross-border raids into Ivory Coast since July and are recruiting children as young as 14 into their ranks, a human rights group said Wednesday.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Laura Burke]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Laura Burke]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/06/05/12084223-group-liberia-militias-attacking-ivorian-villages</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/06/05/12084223-group-liberia-militias-attacking-ivorian-villages</guid><category>liberia</category><category>ivory-coast</category><category>militias</category><category>world-news</category><category>af</category><pubDate>Wed, 6 Jun 2012 00:20:11 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Liberian authorities release mercenary on bail</title>
<description><![CDATA[Liberian authorities have quietly released on bail a mercenary known as "Bob Marley" who is accused of leading massacres in neighboring Ivory Coast last year that left more than 120 people dead.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robbie Corey-Boulet]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Robbie Corey-Boulet]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/17/11243734-liberian-authorities-release-mercenary-on-bail</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/17/11243734-liberian-authorities-release-mercenary-on-bail</guid><category>liberia</category><category>released</category><category>ivory-coast</category><category>world-news</category><category>af</category><category>mercenary</category><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:09:49 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Anti-gay group in Liberia issues hit list</title>
<description><![CDATA[An anti-gay group in Liberia distributed fliers over the weekend with a hit list of people who support gay rights, and one member of the group threatened to "get to them one by one."]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robbie Corey-Boulet]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Robbie Corey-Boulet]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/03/10999795-anti-gay-group-in-liberia-issues-hit-list</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/04/03/10999795-anti-gay-group-in-liberia-issues-hit-list</guid><category>liberia</category><category>gays</category><category>world-news</category><category>af</category><pubDate>Tue, 3 Apr 2012 13:29:19 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>US concerned by Liberian leader's comments on gays</title>
<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration chastised one of its most favored world leaders Tuesday, expressing "surprise and concern" over reports that Liberia's Nobel Peace Prize-winning president was defending a law criminalizing gay acts.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bradley Klapper]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Bradley Klapper]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/20/10779450-us-concerned-by-liberian-leaders-comments-on-gays</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/20/10779450-us-concerned-by-liberian-leaders-comments-on-gays</guid><category>us</category><category>liberia</category><category>politics</category><category>state-department</category><category>nobel-peace-prize-winning</category><pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 19:36:46 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Homes destroyed in cross-border attack on Liberia</title>
<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of men from Sierra Leone crossed the border into Liberia last week, destroying homes in an attack in a sensitive border area that straddles the two countries recovering from war, a regional official said Tuesday.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathan Paye-Layleh]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Jonathan Paye-Layleh]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/20/10777947-homes-destroyed-in-cross-border-attack-on-liberia</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/20/10777947-homes-destroyed-in-cross-border-attack-on-liberia</guid><category>sierra-leone</category><category>liberia</category><category>attack</category><category>world-news</category><category>af</category><pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:42:04 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Liberia reporter gets death, mutilation threats</title>
<description><![CDATA[An international media freedom group says it has asked Liberia's president to intervene to stop death and mutilation threats against a journalist over her reporting on female circumcision.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/14/10682718-liberia-reporter-gets-death-mutilation-threats</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/03/14/10682718-liberia-reporter-gets-death-mutilation-threats</guid><category>media</category><category>liberia</category><category>world-news</category><category>af</category><pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:19:01 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>