Returning from the Bush
First picture, Monrovia, notice what the cars are doing.
Second picture, me and one of My Lebanese friends on New Years at the Mamba Point.
Sorry I haven't updated the blog in a few days. On Friday I got invited to go to Tubmanburg, in Bomi County, for the weekend. Lots of stories, but unfortunately I haven't had time to write them down yet. I'll post again soon.
But briefly, a lot as been going on in Monrovia and as people are preparing for the inauguration on Monday, a week from today. For example, a group of widows of Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) fighters are demanding compensation (about 20,000 Liberian dollars, or $400 US) that the transitional government promised them. The women are afraid that when Ellen is inaugurated the promise will no longer be valid. So on Thursday or Friday, I forget, these women created road blocks around the city, effectively bringing Monrovia to a standstill. One of my Pakistani friends who is an UNMIL peacekeeper called me at one point to tell me that people had started throwing rocks in one part of the city, although I'm not sure if that really happened. Ellen requested that the women negotiate this week, and as I understand it, they agreed to lift the roadblocks. I have heard lots of stories of people who were stuck in 3 or more hours of traffic. Fortunately, the day this happened, I was hanging out with one of my Lebanese friends who works for UNDP. He had his radio, so we could figure out which roads were ok to travel on.
But I have lots of Tubmanburg stories. I will post again soon.
Second picture, me and one of My Lebanese friends on New Years at the Mamba Point.
Sorry I haven't updated the blog in a few days. On Friday I got invited to go to Tubmanburg, in Bomi County, for the weekend. Lots of stories, but unfortunately I haven't had time to write them down yet. I'll post again soon.
But briefly, a lot as been going on in Monrovia and as people are preparing for the inauguration on Monday, a week from today. For example, a group of widows of Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) fighters are demanding compensation (about 20,000 Liberian dollars, or $400 US) that the transitional government promised them. The women are afraid that when Ellen is inaugurated the promise will no longer be valid. So on Thursday or Friday, I forget, these women created road blocks around the city, effectively bringing Monrovia to a standstill. One of my Pakistani friends who is an UNMIL peacekeeper called me at one point to tell me that people had started throwing rocks in one part of the city, although I'm not sure if that really happened. Ellen requested that the women negotiate this week, and as I understand it, they agreed to lift the roadblocks. I have heard lots of stories of people who were stuck in 3 or more hours of traffic. Fortunately, the day this happened, I was hanging out with one of my Lebanese friends who works for UNDP. He had his radio, so we could figure out which roads were ok to travel on.
But I have lots of Tubmanburg stories. I will post again soon.
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