Liberian elephant rampages against timber company
2010-07-19
JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH (AP) - Associated Press Writer MONROVIA, Liberia The unlikeliest of activists - a rampaging elephant that locals claimed was supernaturally possessed - has aired rural Liberians' frustrations with the country's profitable timber industry. The elephant killed a logging worker in June when it charged onto the local company's property, and had also been known to menace other employees and local farmers in previous weeks. This unlikely confluence of superstition, corporate...
'Naomi received six blood diamonds'
2010-07-06
Naomi Campbell prefers not to talk about her meeting with former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor. Which, given his current situation, is hardly surprising. On trial at an international war crimes court in The Hague, the 62-year-old Taylor is not the kind of man whose number any self-respecting supermodel would want to keep in her little black book. The former warlord is accused of fuelling a bloody civil war in Sierra Leone as well as rape, murder and conscripting child soldiers. It is hard to...
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