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Article: Kiss and make-up. (Liberia's national reconciliation policy)
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- African Business
- Article date:
- December 1, 1997
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After seven years of a devastating civil war, Liberia is beginning to pick up the pieces. The new government of President Charles Taylor has set the tone with a national reconciliation policy that sees former enemies now working side by side.
The time, was 9.15 pm and Liberia s finance minister Mr Elie S. Saleeby was still at his desk, working. He had two more hours to work before going home. His suffering aides say he stays at his desk till 11 pm every working night. Being an old World Bank hand, Mr Saleeby knows his way about in the corridors of economic power abroad and sounds like the fight man to haul Liberia's economy, devastated by seven years of war, from the ...