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

Liberian Sen. Amara Konneh urged the U.S. to impose Global Magnitsky sanctions on enablers of mining licensing deals who move proceeds into U.S. real estate, and to resume DEA mentoring, warning Liberia is at its most dangerous point since the civil war.