Climate risk country profile: Liberia
This climate risk profile is intended to serve a as public good to facilitate upstream country diagnostics, policy dialogue, and strategic planning by providing comprehensive overviews of trends and projected
Liberia
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Updated COVID-19 Global Humanitarian Response Plan
<p>The UN’s Humanitarian Chief, Mark Lowcock, has called for swift and determined action to avoid the most destabilizing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic as he releases a $6.7 billion appeal and
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Liberia: Monrovia City Corporation Launches New Waste Management Pilot Project
Monrovia — The Monrovia City Cooperation (MCC) over the weekend lunched a new waste management system called the house to house garbage collection pilot project in four districts in Monrovia. According
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Development-bank climate funds seek new dollars, as competition heats up
Ministers from more than 30 developing countries on Monday urged wealthy nations to top up a set of climate funds that channel money to international development banks, in a year when competition for limited
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Liberia's catch-up plan takes shape
The HIV epidemic continues to have a profound humanitarian and public health impact in western an The HIV epidemic continues to have a profound humanitarian and public health impact in western and central
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One in Three Fear Losing Homes in West and Central Africa, Poll Finds
WASHINGTON - Nearly one in three people living in West and Central Africa fear losing their homes and land in the next five years, according to a survey of 33 countries, making it the region where people
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Liberia to Host First Blue Oceans Confab
The Liberian government in partnership with the Embassy of Sweden in Monrovia and Conservation International (CI) have scheduled a 'Blue Ocean Conference' in Monrovia from March 18 - 21, 2019. According
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New species of stiletto snake capable of sideways strikes discovered in West Africa
Close up of the the first discovered specimen of the newly described species (Atractaspis branchi or Branch's Stiletto Snake) in its natural habitat. Credit: Mark-Oliver Roedel Following a series of
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‘Providing Safe Drinking Water: Gov’t’s Priority’
Public Works Minister Signs MoU with The Last Well; 30,000 water purification bucket system arrives for distribution to 5 counties The provision of safe drinking water to the Liberian people is a priority
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Liberia: Blindness Threatens Liberia's Population
Blindness in Liberia is increasing by the thousands ever year, according to Dr. Edward B. Gizzie, head of the Liberia Eye Center at the John F. Kennedy (JFK) Medical Center, adding to more than 30,000