The International Monetary Fund faced harsh criticism on Thursday for failing to meet its commitment to write off $800m in debt owed by Liberia, as Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the country's leader, met US president George W. Bush in Washington. This broken promise of debt relief threatens the future of Liberia, a country struggling to make democracy work after a bloody civil war, and lift its people out of poverty. Send an to the International Monetary Fund today and tell them to keep their promise and forgive the debt. The least IMF can do is to honor its promise to the Liberian people, who desperately need a boost. Post war Reconstruction, good governance, come on who needs debt relief more than the Liberian people.
Watch the Dafur Now trailer below. Learn more about the movie . Posting about Dafur and Sudan gets harder and harder, I wander how Sharraf and Samira are doing. I just wonder. All of this seem distant and far off to those of us in Western Africa, but do you know that a large chunk of the Sudanese population can trace at least 50% of their ancestry to Nigeria? While you are at it, see the effects of the Liberian war on Liberian immigrants in far away New York, and . I once attended a church were 20 percent of the congregation were refugees from Sierria Leone, the images of babies with one hand still reman fresh and vivid. Wheew, story for another day.
