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[ 12/17/2010 6:49:52 AM ]
APANEWS
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Liberia - Sport
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Liberian U-23 soccer team to take on Sierra Leone Sunday
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| Sierra Leone’s U-23 soccer squad arrives in Liberia Thursday to take on Liberia’s U-23 team in an Olympic qualifying match on Sunday at the Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Complex in Monrovia, APA learns here.
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According to the Liberia Football Association, Liberia’s national coach Bertalan Bicskei has released a 21-man squad, including three foreign based professional players, for the match.
Sunday’s match is the second leg of the 2012 London Olympic games qualifying rounds.
In the first leg played in Freetown, Sierra Leone in early October 2010, Liberia forced Sierra Leone to a 1-1 draw.
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Liberia declares national day of mourning for plane crash victims
The government of Liberia on Monday declared Tuesday a national day of mourning after an air crash claimed the lives of Guinean military chief General Kelefa Diallo and 10 others at Charlesville, 40 kilometers southeast of the country's capital Monrovia, according to Minister of Information Lewis Brown.
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UN official lauds Chinese peacekeepers in Liberia
The Special Representative of the Secretary General and Coordinator of UN Operations in Liberia Karin Landgren has praised the Chinese Engineer Company of United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) in Zwedru for helping with the development and maintenance of road infrastructure in southeastern Liberia.
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Taylor Sentence Sparks Justice Debate in Liberia
DAKAR - The sentencing of former Liberian president Charles Taylor on Wednesday was heralded as an historic moment for Sierra Leone. But in neighboring Liberia, many say the justice and reconciliation process is only just beginning. As Taylor was handed a 50-year jail term, Liberian rights groups and activists were debating whether Taylor's allies and rivals should also be subject to international justice.
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Charles Taylor sentenced to 50 years imprisonment
The former Liberian leader, Charles Taylor, was sentenced to 50 years imprisonment for committing crimes during the civil war in Sierra Leone between 1991 and 2002, the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) in Leidschendam announced on Wednesday.
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Liberia urges UNMIL to delay phaseout
Liberia's Justice Minister Christiana Tah has expressed confidence in the ability of security to respond appropriately to any threat when UNMIL phases out of the West African country, but said it will need time to prepare for such eventuality.
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