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Article: Two years later, Liberia still awaiting basic progress.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- February 19, 1999
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MONROVIA, Liberia _ Nearly two years after the election that was supposed to end Liberia's national nightmare, this grim and decrepit capital city still has no electricity. The only exception is the neighborhood around President Charles Taylor's two-story concrete house, where soldiers in garish blue camouflage uniforms guard the executive mansion still adorned with a lighted roof sign conveying ``Season (sic) Greetings.''
There is no running water, either. There are bombed-out buildings, teen-agers with guns, corrupt officials and homeless families.
And little is likely to improve anytime soon. The United Nations and the United States, Liberia's primary ...