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Liberia
Population: 3.8mn.
GNI, $ : 600mn.
Debt: 4.8bn.
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The government of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is doing all it can to continue to attract Asian investment in the mining and agriculture sectors in order to provide the quickest post-war dividend.

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  • Vol 3 No 7
  •  May 2010

The long shadow of dollar diplomacy

Five years after Senegal’s break in diplomatic relations with Taiwan, the island state which only has 23 diplomatic allies continues to haunt political life. At the heart of the affair are the opaque dealings concerning a US$14 million aid package ‘off...

  • Vol 3 No 4
  •  February 2010

China Union’s clouds have iron linings

More than a year and two amendments later, progress is finally being made on little-known China Union’s US$2.68 billion deal to redevelop Liberia’s Bong Mines. In her apologetic New Year address, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf announced that a second ...

  • Vol 3 No 2
  •  December 2009

Beijing's bankroll for Bong's ore

The China Development Bank promises to save China Union's US$2.68 Bong Mine project but will take an 85% stake to provide the finance and pay Monrovia

  • Vol 3 No 2
  •  December 2009

The Liberian contribution to the stir-fry

In January, Liberian officials are set to finalise negotiations for a US$1.6 billion palm oil investment deal with Indonesia's Golden VerOleum. The past year has seen a number of feasibility studies into weather and land conditions, and production is s...

  • Vol 2 No 9
  •  July 2009

Undue diligence in the timber sector

Malaysian timber conglomerate Samling, which faces accusations of illegal logging, is at the centre of a storm over the bidding by foreign companies for 25-year contracts in Liberia's timber sector. The row follows the leaking of a Liberian government-...

  • Vol 2 No 6
  •  April 2009

The Bong revival

New facts about China Union's iron ore deal reveal the failure and high costs of Monrovia's negotiating tactics

  • Vol 2 No 6
  •  April 2009

Deal or no deal

The Minerals Development Agreement between China Union and the Liberian government, which Africa-Asia Confidential has seen, offers China Union royalty payments and tax exemptions that are far more generous than the usual industry standards.

  • Vol 2 No 4
  •  February 2009

A more perfect union

Beijing’s special relationship with Monrovia defies market conditions and is expanding into Guinea and Sierra Leone

  • Vol 2 No 4
  •  February 2009

The born-again Bong mines

The US$2.68 billion Bong Mines deal hands the Chinese consortium led by Yin Fuyou and China Union a 25-year concession for the formerly German-owned Bong Mines in Bong Country, north-east of Liberia's capital, Monrovia. It covers 352 square kilometers...

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