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Current Feed ContentLIBERIA: Coastal erosion displaces hundredsCoastalerosion has wiped out dozens of homes and left nearly 200 inhabitantshomeless in Buchanan, the second largest city in Liberia, andgovernment officials say the whole city of 200,000 people isthreatened. “The situation is clearly posing a threat to theentire city. Since 2006 the sea has been gradually encroaching onBuchanan leaving more than one hundred homes destroyed and displacinghundreds of people, and it is still getting worse,” JuliaDuncan-Cassell, superintendent of Grand Bassa...LIBERIA: Nutritional “crisis” in MonroviaModerate hunger hasbeen endemic in the Liberian capital for years, but as the effects of soaringglobal food and fuel prices have doubled rice prices, the aid agency ActionAgainst Hunger (ACF) says thousands of city children are increasingly at riskof acute malnutrition. ACF Head of Mission in Liberia, Berengere de Penanster,says a February 2008 survey showed “extremely disturbing” results thatindicated a “significant nutritional crisis” in the Liberian capital. "What we know and can't ignore... |
