Liberia: Sirleaf Called It Filthy. Boakai Called It Progress. the Trash Remains.
[Liberian Investigator] MONROVIA -- When former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf called Monrovia "filthy" on a popular radio program in late April, she was not saying anything that hundreds of thousands of residents do not already know. What she did was make it politically inconve
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