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“Liberia Is Not Yet a Captured State”: Senator Amara Konneh Asks Washington for Global Magnitsky Sanctions on Mining-Deal Enablers

At a National Endowment for Democracy roundtable in Washington, Liberia’s former finance minister warned his country is at “the most dangerous point since the civil war and the Ebola epidemic” and urged U.S. action against people moving mining proceeds into American real estate.

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Amara Konneh, then Liberia’s finance minister, speaks at a Millennium Challenge Corporation signing ceremony in Washington. He is now a senator for Gbarpolu County. (File photo)U.S. Department of State / Wikimedia Commons

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