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Rep. Hassan Kiazolu Mr. Benoni Urey printing new money TUESDAY NOVEMBER 19 2019 www .thenewdawnliberia.com NEW DA WN 2 Continental News France gives back sword of anti-colonial fighter rance has restored to Their official report states The curved iron, brass and leader, military commander 1893 in Bandiagara. It was here Senegal a sabre that that most of the Africa wood sword has been kept in and Muslim scholar who led the that the French seized the Fbelonged to a 19th collection in Paris' Quai Branly its leather sheath in the Tidjane brotherhood, a Sufi sword, which had a French- Century Islamic scholar and museum - approximately museum in Senegal's capital on order in West Africa. made blade and a handle r u l e r. I t i s p a r t o f a 46,000 pieces - was acquired loan from France. But Sunday's He fought French troops shaped like a bird's beak. commitment to return to its w i t h s o m e d e g r e e o f ceremony saw the item from 1857 to 1859 before French colonialists also former West African colonies duress."It's symbolic. It had formally returned for a period signing a peace treaty with looted books belonging to Tall, key items of their cultural been lent to us before, but now of five years. them in 1860. According to according to El Hajj Mamadou h e r i t a g e . T h e a r t e f a c t it is being restored to us," the The next stage will be for Senegalese historians, he Mactar Thiam, a descendant of originally belonged to the head of Dakar's Museum of French MPs to vote on whether disappeared mysteriously from the Muslim scholar. revered west African leader Black Civilisations Hamady to permanently return this and the cliffs of Bandiagara in Mali, "They took everything, Omar Saidou Tall, who led an Bocoum told AFP news agency other artefacts.El Hadj Omar an area known for its dramatic including his library, in Segou, anti-colonial struggle against about the sabre. Saidou Tall was a political landscape, in 1864.His son and I hope that all our books the French.French Prime A h m a d o u ( 1 8 3 6 - 1 8 9 7 ) that are now in France will be Minister Edouard Philippe succeeded him and was returned to us," Mr Thiam told handed the sword to Senegal's defeated by the French in April BBC President Macky Sall in a ceremony in Dakar."This is an historic day," the Senegalese leader said. Some of Omar Nigeria bandits 'slit Saidou Tall's descendants were present at the ceremony. Mr Philippe said it was "the throats and kill children' first step" in a project aimed at returning more Senegalese artefacts currently in French igerian police say at women, children and the museums, which hold at least least 14 people have elderly, were either shot 90,000 artefacts from sub- Nbeen killed and d e a d , b u r n t b e y o n d Saharan Africa.Last year a many others wounded in an recognition or had their g r o u p o f e x p e r t s attack by armed men on a throats slit, the resident said. commissioned by France's village in Nigeria's north- Dozens of homes were set President Emmanuel Macron western Zamfara state. ablaze and livestock was recommended that African Residents say the death stolen. . treasures in French museums toll was much higher with Zamfara police spokesman be returned to their countries Senegal's President Macky Sall dozens killed in the hours- Muhammad Shehu told the of origin. ® called it an "historic day” long attack, which began late BBC it was believed to be a Banks 'facilitated South Africa corruption' under Zuma everal international claims of graft against Mr Zuma Johannesburg, Lord Hain b a n k s e n a b l e d and the Gupta family. They alleged that the banks were Scorruption in South deny any wrongdoing. helping the Guptas to hide the Africa under former President HSBC said it supported the source of their illicit gains Jacob Zuma, British lawmaker inquiry while Standard through a network of banks Peter Hain has said. Chartered said there was no accounts and shell companies. At an inquiry hearing, he evidence linking it to the "They're all up to their neck said HSBC, Standard Chartered Guptas.No-one from the Bank in this," said Lord Hain, a and India's Bank of Baroda of Baroda was immediately former anti-apartheid activist. were "directly culpable". a v a i l a b l e f o r "They continued because of The inquiry is investigating c o m m e n t . S p e a k i n g i n c o u r s e t h e c o r p o r a t e s on Sunday evening and retaliatory attack following a concerned, including the continued into Monday clash earlier this month banks, were making money out morning. between the bandits and o f i t . " H e b l a s t e d t h e vigilantes based in Karaye. companies for not applying the One resident told the BBC same "stringent measures" to that six of his children were North-western Nigeria is all customers, and called for killed after gunmen stormed facing multiple security more co-operation between the village of Karaye on challenges as armed groups corporations and national motorbikes. regularly carry out attacks on governments to help recover Another said his father and villages as well as abducting any stolen money. grandfather were killed. people for ransom.BBC Lord Hain's remarks are the The victims, including latest to be given to the corruption inquiry, which was appointments and winning own interests. launched last year. lucrative state tenders South African authorities Mr Zuma resigned as through bribery. They also raided the Guptas' family president in February 2018 employed members of Mr compound last year, and the after numerous allegations of Zuma's family. family have been blacklisted corruption during his nine-year The scandal is widely by several South African banks administration. referred to as "state capture" - and the US Treasury. Several allegations focus on shorthand for a form of Mr Zuma has agreed to co- Peter Hain has accused several firms of helping his relationship with the Gupta corruption in which businesses operate with the public with the theft of public money in South Africa family, who have been accused and politicians commandeer inquiry, but has dismissed it as o f i n f l u e n c i n g c a b i n e t state assets to advance their prejudiced.BBC TUESDAY NOVEMBER 19 2019 www .thenewdawnliberia.com NEW DA WN 3

Editorial Commentary arBy Leandroy Mora Alfonsín Hailing the Liberia Entrepreneurship Summit Can Fernández Fix Argentina? By voting President Maurico Macri out of office, Argentinians have THE CUMMINGS AFRICA Foundation over the weekend, hosted over 100 local entrepreneurs under the Liberia signaled that they will no longer tolerate continued economic Entrepreneurship Summit, targeting selected Liberian- crisis, much less policies that appear to make matters worse. But, owned businesses as participants. because solutions to Argentina's problems are not mutually THE TWO DAYS Summit in Monrovia provided an avenue to compatible, the new government will likely face similar challenges. expose young Liberian entrepreneurs to deeper business managerial skills and create empowerment opportunities, UENOS AIRES – The acute economic crisis even worse. GDP contracted in three of the four focusing on Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) that look that has been afflicting Argentina since years that Macri was in office. By the time he forward to moving to the next level. B2018 has just produced a change in leaves in December, the poverty rate is expected government. The newly elected president, to have reached 40%; and, following the loss of OWNED BY FORMER corporate executive and opposition Alberto Fernández, inherits from his 140,000 skilled industrial jobs in manufacturing politician, Alexander B. Cummings, the Cummings Africa predecessor, Mauricio Macri, a severely and trade sectors, unemployment will be at 10%. Foundation has initiated an endeavor that would enable battered economy. Argentina is now being Liberian entrepreneurs to have a say in their own economy squeezed by a high debt burden, impaired Argentina’s challenge now is to address each of thru nonstop education, inspiration and motivation. social conditions, and soaring inflation and these separate dimensions of the crisis. In unemployment all at the same time. addition to bolstering growth and promoting WE BELIEVE THIS is where focus of the Liberian society consumption and genuine investment, Since 2012, the country has struggled to policymakers also need to stabilize the exchange should be – a strong desire for entrepreneurial skills and generate a sufficient inflow of dollars through rate to restore certainty for investors and ensure courage to venture into business. The timing for the Liberia exports. Between 2011 and 2015, then- debt repayment. Entrepreneurship Summit couldn't have been any better President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (now than now when the economy has nose-dived. the incoming vice president) imposed severe These goals are not necessarily compatible. currency controls that resulted in Argentina must renegotiate debt-repayment WE ENCOURAGE THE Cummings Africa Foundation to macroeconomic rigidities. But since deadlines with its private creditors and revise conduct more of such summits in the country to build and eliminating capital controls in 2015, Macri’s the current standby agreement with the IMF, maintain in Liberians particularly, the youth an administration has since made the problem whose aid has proved to be more political than entrepreneurial spirit that would turn their attention away worse. Instead of simply rolling back the technical. But while restructuring the debt will from seeking government jobs as the only hope for their controls that had distorted the currency require an improved fiscal balance, the current future. market, the government lifted all controls, deep recession makes achieving a primary including those preventing speculative surplus in 2020 exceedingly difficult. The severe IF OUR ECONOMY should wake up from its current slumber, investment, which were considered to be economic adjustment that it would require could the private sector should take the lead thru SMEs, macroeconomic safeguards. be too much for Argentinians to bear, given the particularly Liberian-owned businesses. No economy has extent to which the real economy has already developed exclusively by government spending, though the Macri also promoted unprecedented debt deteriorated. As popular uprisings in Chile and public sector serves as a stimulus. policies, resulting in additional borrowing of Ecuador have shown, Latin American societies $193 billion. This included a $57 billion loan are increasingly disinclined to tolerate further HOWEVER, IT IS the private sector that holds a very big from the International Monetary Fund, which painful adjustments. chunk of the economy on which government heavily relies came on top of a previous $44 billion loan (63% for taxes to run the affairs of state. of the institution’s credit lines are now For its part, the incoming government has extended to Argentina). By the end of this year, signaled that it will try to stimulate domestic AS A FORMER executive of Coca Cola Africa, Mr. Cummings the country’s debt-to-GDP ratio will have risen consumption to ease poverty. With limited fiscal has wealth of experience and expertise that both ordinary from 52% to 93%, according to IMF forecasts. resources, it will have to focus on improving Moreover, short-term debt deadlines have conditions for impoverished social groups Liberians and the government itself could tap from. And has exerted additional pressure on Argentina’s through cash-transfer programs such as the made himself available, politics aside. already-dire balance of payments. Universal Child Allowance (Asignación Universal por Hijo). Another major goal is to forge a new WE URGE EVERY well-meaning and business-conscious Lastly, in order to curb inflation, Macri’s social pact by encouraging unions and companies Liberians to take advantage of the opportunity brought government encouraged the central bank to to propose salary agreements in keeping with about by the Cummings Foundation to emancipate push interest rates ever higher, to a peak of 70% broader fiscal- and monetary-policy goals. ourselves from the shackles of poverty, dependency and in October 2018 (rates are currently still above lack. No outsider will do it for us. 60%). And yet, this has given a further boost to Fernández must show that he has the political speculative investment. clout to align the expectations of different ADDRESSING THE OPENING session, Mr. Cummings stakeholders and follow through with policies disclosed that contestants in a business ideas competition Under these conditions, Argentina’s ship that will prop up consumption and send the right from the Summit stand a chance to win up to US$10,000 and started sinking as soon as currents of the global signals to the market. There is little room for US$5,000 investment capital thru grants, respectively. economy shifted. When the US Federal Reserve maneuver in an economy that is so fragile. Yet raised its own benchmark rate in March 2018, Fernández’s victory shows that Argentinians are THIS IS A once in a life time opportunity that no business- the Argentinian economy’s fundamental fed up with the current approach, and with minded Liberian should afford to miss, as it could well be weaknesses were laid bare. Owing to a run on Argentina’s economic woes more generally. the start of a journey that could take you to the top, and the the currency, the peso has now fallen 210% Liberia Entrepreneurship Summit, thru the Cummings Africa against the US dollar, and inflation has Argentina is rich in many resources, including Foundation should be lauded for availing the opportunity. increased at double its normal pace, reaching natural endowments such as metals, 48% in 2018, with a projected peak of 60% this hydrocarbons, wood, and livestock. It has a year. diversified manufacturing industry, whose products range from steel and automobiles to As if this were not bad enough, Macri failed biochemicals; and it is home to an educated, even to meet his main goal of adjusting the highly qualified workforce that is capable of fiscal balance. In 2019, Argentina will record a providing top-quality services. The hope is that, primary deficit (excluding interest payments) once the crisis is over, the enormous potential of of 0.8% of GDP, and is on track to double that in Argentina’s 45 million people can be unleashed 2020 (assuming a baseline scenario), owing to and directed toward renewed growth and planned tax cuts from 2017 and reduced development. That is the real challenge facing revenues from the recession. Argentina and its new government.

But the crisis in Argentina’s real economy is Copyright: Project Syndicate, 2018. www.project-syndicate.org TUESDAY NOVEMBER 19 2019 www .thenewdawnliberia.com NEW DA WN 4 O-ped By Richard N. Haass Opinion By Ibrahim Elbadawi & Jeffrey D. Sachs The Coming Nuclear Crises An Appeal for Sudan’s Future EW YORK – Until just a few years ago, it looked as if the problem posed by nuclear weapons had been successfully managed, if not solved. American and Russian HARTOUM – On December 19, 2018, peaceful protests erupted spontaneously in cities nuclear stockpiles had been reduced substantially from their Cold War highs, and across Sudan. Just four months later, the brave demonstrators succeeded in ousting N the despotic regime of Omar al-Bashir, who had ruled the country for 30 years. arms-control agreements were in place that limited both intermediate- and long-range K systems. But all of this now could come undone. Remarkably, it was Sudan’s most oppressed social groups – women, young people, and ethnic minorities – who led the way. Progress over the last generation was not limited to the United States and Russia. Libya In August, Sudanese civil-society and military leaders signed the Draft Constitutional was persuaded to abandon its nuclear ambitions, Israel thwarted Iraqi and Syrian Declaration. This power-sharing agreement paved the way for the formation of a transitional nuclear development, and South Africa relinquished its small nuclear arsenal. Iran government that will serve for three years and three months, at which time Sudan will hold a signed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which constrained its ability to democratic election. acquire many of the essential prerequisites of nuclear weapons. Most recently, the UN Security Council imposed tough sanctions aimed at persuading North Korea to give up The new government includes the country’s first female chief justice, two female members its still modest and comparatively primitive nuclear weapons program, clearing the of the Sovereignty Council, and its first female foreign minister (one of four women in the way for high-level talks between North Korean and US officials. And, of course, no cabinet). It also includes several technocrats – most notably the prime minister – who have nuclear weapon has been used in combat for three-quarters of a century, since the US worked for international organizations. dropped two nuclear bombs on Japan to hasten the end of World War II. The partnership between civilian leaders and the military has saved the country from a This past summer, however, the US withdrew from the 1987 Intermediate-Range protracted and deadly civil war. The new government’s three urgent priorities are to resolve Nuclear Forces Treaty after it concluded Russia had violated the INF’s terms. The treaty Sudan’s ongoing internal conflicts, resettle millions of internally displaced people, and limiting longer-range US and Russian nuclear weapons will expire in 2021 unless it is rebuild the country’s devastated economy. extended, and it is not clear that it will be: both countries are committing substantial resources to modernize their existing arsenals. Today, destitution is rampant after three decades of mismanagement, corruption, war, and internal division. According to the International Monetary Fund, Sudan’s GDP per capita in US Moreover, by exiting the JCPOA the US has heightened the risks stemming from Iran. The dollar terms has declined by half since 2013. Moreover, the IMF expects the economy to contract by 2.6% this year, with inflation exceeding 50%. Unemployment is above 20%, and accord, concluded in 2015, was imperfect. In particular, many of its most significant Sudan’s gross government debt is more than 200% of GDP. constraints would last only 10-15 years, and the agreement did not limit Iran’s ballistic- missile development. But it did place a ceiling on Iranian nuclear activity and allowed Internal peace now depends on finding solutions to Sudan’s huge challenges. Sudan has for international inspections. By all accounts, Iran was honoring its provisions. suffered a catastrophic loss of export earnings from oil since 2011, because the bulk of its oil production was located in what is now South Sudan, which became independent after a Now, however, Iran has begun a slow but steady process of getting out from under many referendum backed by the Western powers. As a result, the country urgently needs to of the agreement’s limits. It may be doing this to persuade the US and Europe to ease establish new industries and modernize its vast agricultural sector. economic sanctions. It may also be calculating that these steps could dramatically reduce the time it would need to produce nuclear weapons without being attacked. But Sudan today is therefore on a knife-edge: it can evolve toward peace and democracy, or it is at least as likely that Iran’s actions will lead the US, or more probably Israel, to spiral into instability and violence. In our respective careers, we have seen both types of undertake a preventive strike designed to destroy a significant part of its program. outcome. In Poland, one of us (Sachs) watched and participated in the consolidation of democracy and the restoration of economic growth after the country’s communist regime Such a strike could lead several other regional powers, including Turkey, Saudi Arabia, collapsed 30 years ago. Yet both of us also have witnessed bad situations becoming even worse, as unfulfilled expectations, demagoguery, and ethnic strife led to years of violence, and Egypt, to develop or acquire nuclear weapons of their own. Turkey, increasingly estranged from many of its allies, has suggested that it may choose to develop nuclear instability, and economic collapse. weapons regardless of what Iran does. We are therefore appealing to the world to show solidarity with Sudan following its recent North Korea is far ahead of Iran: it already has several dozen nuclear weapons and triumph over despotism. We know, of course, that the global attention span for faraway missiles, has tested missiles that can reach the US, and is developing submarine- countries is short. Most of the focus today is on uncertainties in global trade and finance, rising tensions among major powers, and important upcoming elections in several countries. launched nuclear weapons. The notion that North Korea will agree to give up its weapons and “denuclearize” is fanciful. Its leader, Kim Jong-un, believes that only Nonetheless, we ask the world to give a moment’s attention to an impoverished country of nuclear weapons can ensure his regime’s survival, a belief understandably 43 million people, whose greatest natural resource today is renewed hope for the future. If strengthened by the experience of Ukraine, which accepted security guarantees in Sudan succeeds, it will help to stabilize the Horn of Africa and the Middle East. Should it fail, exchange for giving up the nuclear weapons it inherited from the Soviet Union, only to the resulting instability could engulf many other countries. Vital and timely international be invaded by Russia 25 years later. assistance to Sudan can make the difference between the success and failure of the new government’s reforms. One risk is that North Korea will over the next few years come to possess a significant arsenal that will pose a meaningful threat to the US. Another is that North Korea’s Most urgently, Sudan needs the United States government to remove regulatory barriers to neighbors, including South Korea and Japan, will determine that they, too, need commerce, finance, and the movement of people. In particular, the US should lift nuclear weapons given the North Korean threat and their diminished confidence in the immediately its designation of Sudan as a state sponsor of terrorism, a holdover from the reliability of the US and its guarantees to protect them with its nuclear forces. Bashir era, so that the Sudanese government can address some of the country’s pressing needs. The danger in both regions is that a race to acquire nuclear weapons could trigger a preventive war. Even if such a war were avoided, the presence of multiple nuclear The new government has quickly brought forward the Sudan Economic Revival Plan, a reform arsenals would increase the temptation for one or more countries to strike first in a strategy for the years 2020-2030 that is based on the United Nations Sustainable crisis. “Use them or lose them” has the potential to become a recipe for instability and Development Goals. Under the plan, the government intends to direct its scarce budget conflict when capabilities are not sufficiently robust to absorb an attack and still be revenues toward education, health, and basic and sustainable infrastructure. able to mete out the sort of devastating retaliation essential for effective deterrence. To succeed, Sudan’s government must not only raise domestic revenue, but also shift spending away from servicing Bashir-era foreign debt and toward public services and As if all this were not enough, India and Pakistan, two countries with a long history of infrastructure. For that reason, Sudan needs immediate debt relief and the ability to access bilateral conflict, are both nuclear powers. Nuclear deterrence cannot be assumed. It new funding from the World Bank and other international financial institutions. is all too easy to imagine a Pakistani-supported terrorist attack leading to Indian retaliation, which in turn could prompt Pakistan to threaten using nuclear weapons, Since the mid-1990s, dozens of lower-income economies have benefited from debt relief because its conventional military forces cannot compete with those of India. There is under the IMF-World Bank Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) program. But with Bashir in also the possibility that the command and control of weapons could break down and one power, Sudan was excluded from this initiative. Now that he is gone, the new government is or more devices could find their way into the hands of terrorists. appealing to the IMF, World Bank, and international creditors to permit Sudan to benefit from HIPC debt relief, and thus enable the country to make a fresh financial start. It is close to 60 years since a young presidential candidate named John F. Kennedy predicted that as many as 20 countries could achieve nuclear-weapons capability by Thirty years ago, Poland was granted deep relief on its communist-era debts, laying the the end of 1964. Fortunately, Kennedy was proven wrong, and the number of countries foundation for subsequent growth. Sudan now has a similar need for debt relief. with nuclear weapons is still nine. The 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty has proven quite robust, in part because it is buttressed by efforts to prevent the export of The challenges facing Sudan seem insurmountable to many observers within and outside the critical technologies, arms control, sanctions, and the strength of alliances, which country, and skeptics believe that grave economic and political turmoil is inevitable. But the reduces the need for countries to become self-reliant. Sudanese people remain hopeful. They, and we, believe that the country can become a democratic role model for the region, showing how a popularly backed government can But with nuclear technology increasingly available, arms control unraveling amid restore stability, launch reforms, and achieve sustainable development. renewed great power rivalry, weakened alliances as the US pulls back from the world, and fading memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we are entering a new and dangerous Sudan’s innovative, ethnically diverse, peaceful, and politically engaged people – and in particular its youth and women – are free from oppression as the result of their own brave period. Nuclear competition or even use of nuclear weapons could again become the efforts. Now, they ardently desire a better future. To quote the Tunisian poet Abu al-Qasim greatest threat to global stability. Less certain is whether today’s leaders are up to al-Shabbi, destiny must answer their call. meeting this emerging challenge.

Copyright: Project Syndicate, 2019. www.project-syndicate.org TUESDAAY r NOVEMBERt i 19c2019l e www .thenewdawnliberia.com Art i c NEW l DA eWN 5 Russia, Africa and the Debts By KesterKennKlomegah* launched with a number of countries involving the use financial and economic organizations. ong seen as a strategic partner, Russia has opened of debts to finance national economic growth a new chapter and started building better projects.” On June 28, 2002, in Kananaskis, Canada, there was a Lrelations with Africa, and most significantly made media conference after the G8 Summit. There was one its move by writing off Africa's debts accumulated from On September 5, 2017, President Vladimir Putin specific question regarding Africa. The G8 approached Soviet era. After the Soviet collapse, Russia first attended a meeting of BRICS leaders with delegation the plan submitted by African countries in a creative attempted at collecting its debts. Indeed, these heads from invited states, including the Heads of State way. What can be Russia's role and place in addressing Soviet-leaning debt-trapped African countries were and Government of Egypt, Tajikistan, Mexico, Guinea the global problem of combating poverty? unable to pay them (these debts) back to Russia. and Thailand. The meeting discussed the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable President Vladimir Putin answered: "As regards Russia, During the Soviet era, Moscow forged alliances with Development and prospects for further developing it has traditionally had very good relations with the African countries, especially those that supported its their partner relations. Before the meeting, the BRICS African continent. We are very perceptive of the communist idealogy, and supplied them with military leaders and delegation heads form invited states had a problems on the African continent. I must say that equipment and offered technical assistance on joint photo session, President Putin informed that Russia has been making a very tangible contribution to bilateral basis. In particular, supplied arms went to "Russia has been working actively to implement the solving Africa's problems. Suffice it to say Russia is Angola, Algeria, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. We have making a big contribution to the initiative adopted Ethiopia, Namibia, Mozambique, Morocco and South written off over US$20 billion of African countries' here, a multi-lateral initiative, including the writing Africa. That Soviet-era form of diplomatic engagement debts through the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries off part of African debts. Of all the African debts that left many African countries indebted to an amount of Initiative." are to be written-off, 20% are debts to the Russian US$20 billion, according to official documents. Federation. That is US$26 billion.” On January 30, 2015, President Putin sent his greetings In an interview with TASS, Russian State News Agency, to the 24th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the On May 21, 2007, The Kremlin made available Excerpts ahead of the first Russia-Africa Summit, Russian African Union Heads of State and Government. The of the Transcript of the Cabinet Meeting Finance President Vladimir Putin explained Soviet's role in the message stated in part: The Russian Federation's Minister AlekseiKudrin on the meeting of G8 finance liberation of the continent, support for the struggle of relations with our African partners are developing ministers. The issue about supporting and helping its peoples against colonialism, racism and apartheid. positively. We have established a substantial political African countries. Minister Kudrin told the cabinet In addition, the enormous meeting; "We discussed the help offered Africans to implementation of a number protect their independence of initiatives that should a n d s o v e r e i g n t y, g a i n improve the management and statehood, support for transparency of public national economies, and finances in those countries, created capable armed forces including by better employing for Africa. revenues from the extraction of mineral resources in Africa "Our African agenda is positive to fight against poverty.” and future-oriented. We do not ally with someone against "We discussed responsible someone else; and we strongly lending and relations with oppose any geo-political countries that have benefited 'games' involving Africa," he from debt relief. We are said during the interview writing off debt, reducing before referring the debts these countries' debt burden, write-off to Africa. "Let me a n d m e a n w h i l e t h e i r point out that in the post- opportunity to incur new Soviet period, at the end of d e b t s i s i n c r e a s i n g the 20th century, Russia simultaneously. And a number cancelled US$20 billion of of countries are starting to African countries' debts to the make huge loans to these Soviet Union. This was both an countries, taking advantage act of generosity and a of the fact that they are no pragmatic step, because many longer in debt and lending to of the African states were them at such a rate that these unable to service those debts. countries will once again We, therefore, decided that it require help. These instances would be best for everyone to start our cooperation dialogue and work actively together in international exist. In fact, this practice is liable to be perceived in a from scratch," said President Putin during that affairs. Russia's decision to write off much of African negative way. A number of leading countries in the interview. countries' debt and the preferential conditions we world are engaged in this practice," he said. On October 23, 2019, President Vladimir Putin and offer the majority of Africa's traditional export goods President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, African Union open up new possibilities for trade, economic and At Sochi summit, Putin's announcement about "debt Chairman and Co-Chairman of the Russia-Africa investment cooperation. write-off" was, therefore, nothing new. The Africa's Summit Abdel Fattah el-Sisi took part in the Russia- debts write-off debt has been played for years. It Africa Economic Forum. During the plenary session On March 27, 2013, in Durban, South Africa, in a speech featured in Foreign Minister Lavrov speeches, at least held under the theme "Russia and Africa: Uncovering at meeting with Heads of African states, President between 2007 and 2015, as indicated here from the the Potential for Cooperation" and attended by top Putin explicitly noted "Over the course of many official website of the Foreign Affairs Ministry. officials, politicians and business leaders, and almost decades, Russia has provided direct assistance to the 2,000 Russian and foreign companies, the debts write- African continent. I would like to note that we have Remarks by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the UN off as as basis for economic growth and for developing written off over 20 billion dollars in debt; we have Summit for the Adoption of the Post-2015 Development long-tern relations featured prominently. written off far more than any other G8 nation. We plan Agenda, New York, September 27, 2015 (1814-27-09- to take additional measures to ease the debt burden.” 2015). "Economic issues are an integral part and a priority of Russia's relations with African countries. Developing According to the Russian leader, the BRICS group's He said: "Russian development assistance is invariably close business ties serves our common interest, companies are working actively in the African market; aimed at solving the most pressing challenges faced by contributes to the sustainable growth, helps to there is a growing influx of investments into various the countries in need. In these efforts, we are neither improve quality of life and solve numerous social sectors in Africa's economies, from traditional mineral trying to lecture our partners on how they should build problems," President Putin said, and then added, extraction and farming to high technologies and their lives, nor impose political models and values. "Russia provides systematic assistance to developing banking. He added BRICS countries are championing Poverty eradication is the key objective of Russia's the African continent. Our country is participating in the rights and interests of Africa and other nations with state policy in the area of international development an initiative to ease the African countries' debt emerging economies, speaking out in favour of assistance at the global level.” burden. To date, the total amount of write-offs stands increasing their role and influence in the global at over US$20 billion. Joint programmes have been governance system, particularly international Cont’d on page 10 TUESDAY NOVEMBER 19 2019 www .thenewdawnliberia.com NEW DA WN 6 More headline news More headline news Judge recuses himself from Oliver Dillon’s trial Liberia co-chairs By Winston W. Parley the merit of the case and the the area in which the incident riminal Court “A” court cannot change its view. occurred is noted to be a crime FemWise Network presiding Judge “(In) The case at bar,the breeding area, detailing CRoosevelt Z. Willie defendant is charged for further that victim Emmanuel By Ben P. Wesee has recused himself from the murder. This court says that was armed with scissors while he Coordinator of the including United Nations alleged murder trial of Mr. the elements for murder are defendant Oliver Dillon was A n g i e B r o o k s Women, and GIZ. The European Oliver Dillon, the brother of not present and therefore it armed with a knife when the TInternational Center Union also supported the opposition Montserrado granted bail. Did it touch on deceased and two other men ( A B I C ) f o r w o m e n ’ s launch,” Cllr. Yvette Chesson County Sen. Abraham Darius the merit of the case[?] It surrounded the accused in the empowerment, leadership Gibson explains. Dillon, insisting that the answers in the affirmative, darkness. development, international She the meeting was “court cannot change its therefore the court cannot The police reported that peace and security, Cllr. Dr. m o d e r a t e d b y view” that the elements for change its view,” he rules. the incident scene is infested Yvette Chesson Gibson, has HajiyaRaheematMomodu, head murder are not present [in Judge Willie recalls that with criminal gangs who rain been elected to Co-chair the of human security and civil the case]. d e s p i t e p r o s e c u t i o n ’s terror on peaceful residents to FemWise Network of ECOWAS. society of ECOWAS, while Rev. Following his recusal resistance, he granted take away their belongings, According to Cllr. Gibson, KesiaOnam Bijou Togo Birch, Monday, 18 November, Judge d e f e n d a n t D i l l o n b a i l adding that “there is no history who made the disclosure in a Africa Union adviser to Willie immediately ordered “because in the mind of the of quarrel or misunderstanding news conference at the FemWise Africa spoke on the the clerk of court to transfer court the critical elements of b e t w e e n t h e v i c t i m Ministry of Foreign Affairs in role of the AU. the case to Court “B” which murder did not exist which are [Emmanuel] and accused M o n r o v i a T h u r s d a y, 1 4 “Remarks were made by the has similar jurisdiction as the premeditation and malice [Dillon] and there was no N o v e m b e r t h e E C O WA S Re p r e s e n t a t i v e o f t h e Criminal Court “A” to enable afford thought.” arrangement for them to meet FemWise is the regional Government of the Republic of at the place of the incident.” dimension of the network of La Cote D’Ivoire. Progress in I n a m u r d e r c a s e Africa women in conflict implementing the United investigators seek to establish prevention and mediation Nations Security Council that the accused had planned established in July 2017, as an with malice and criminal intent to take the life of another person prior to the killing of that person as a reason for levying a murder charge which carries maximum penalty of death or life time i m p r i s o n m e n t u p o n conviction. But when investigators determine that a death occurred under a circumstance like scuffle, tussle or fistfight that was not planned against the victim, they would consider charging the accused Cllr. Dr. Yvette Chesson Gibson with manslaughter, which carries much less penalty when convicted. African Union or AU initiative Resolution 1325 that urges the Judge Willie says after he FemWise Africa. International community to granted defendant Dillon bail She says her election was improve women’s participation the prosecution conduct a The government here held in Abidjan, La Cote in peace and security has been speedy trial of the case. charged Mr. Dillon, an due to his determination that the elements for murder did D’Ivoire on November 7, 2019 slow. UN Women noted that Judge Willie’s decisions on employee of the Ministry of at an ECOWAS meeting, adding between 1992 and 2011, Monday were in response to Transport’s Coordinator for not exist in the case, the prosecution, however, took a s t e e r i n g c o m m i t t e e women globally made up only the prosecution’s request for Decentralization for the comprised of seven women was 2% of chief mediators, 4% of his recusal from the case on alleged murder of one him on certiorari before Justice in Chambers Joseph N. also elected, including two Co- witnesses and signatories, and the basis of an earlier Emmanuel Koffa, Jr., which chairs- herself from Liberia, 9% of negotiators. The African decision he rendered by occurred on 12 April, 2019 in Nagbe who subsequently reversed his (Willie’s) decision and Ms. Alice Gibson of Togo, U n i o n h a s d e v e l o p e d granting defendant Dillon’s Gardnerville. who represented young women instruments and policies for motion to be placed on bail The police indicated in of granting Dillon the bail. The Justice in Chambers, of ECOWAS. gender equity, including because the proof was not April that defendant Dillon “The FemWise Network was mainstreaming gender into the evident and presumption was had left his residence at Associate Justice Nagbe then ordered that the case be sent officially launched by Dr. African Peace and Security not great” to hold the midnight to collect some items S i g a J a g n e , E C O W A S Architecture. FemWise Africa is accused for murder. from his vehicle parked at back to Court “A” for trial, f o l l o w i n g w h i c h t h e commissioner of social and a subsidiary mechanism of the Judge Willie grants the Supermarket in Gardnerville gender. Other making remarks AU Panel of the Wise,” Cllr./ Dr. prosecution’s request to when he was engaged by prosecution demanded Judge Willie’s recusal. were ECOWAS representative Chesson Gibson concludes. recuse himself because victim Emmanuel and two to Guinea, and partners, according to him, his previous other men in the darkness decision on the defendant’s when the incident occurred. motion for bail did touch on Investigators revealed that Visit: www.thenewdawnliberia.com

“Restoring the Education Technology Engineering & MOE, stakeholders begin education Sector for Quality M a t h e m a t i c s ( S T E M ) Nimba County from November O u t c o m e s t h r o u g h Education, Teacher Education, sector review 18 – 22. C o l l e c t i v e E f f o r t s a n d T e r t i a r y E d u c a t i o n , According to a release, this Innovation” with Rev. Dr. Julius Governance and management, h e M i n i s t r y o f Liberia (NTAL), National year’s JESR will address Julukon Sarwolo Nelson, Jr. Monitoring &Evaluation, Early E d u c a t i o n h a s PrincipalAssociation (NPAL), achievements made by the President of the University of Childhood Education (ECE), Te m b a r k e d o n a C i v i l S o c i e t y G r o u p s , Ministry of Education since Liberia serving as keynote Basic & Secondary review of the education Federation of Liberian Youth t h e i n c e p t i o n o f t h i s speaker. Education, Vocational, sector in partnership with (FLY), Liberia National government and challenges by The review exercise will Te c h n i c a l & I n c l u s i v e various stakeholders. Student Union (LINSU), and finding amicablesolutions that focus on several thematic Education, Domestic and The review being attended Association ofUniversities and will help professionalize and a r e a s f o r t h e s m o o t h International Expenditure by donors, secretariats, Coalition of Transparency & s t a n d a r d i z e t h e implementation and operation on Education Instructions National Parent-Teacher Accountability inEducation in educationsystem for the of the Ministry, including: Supervision Framework and Association (NPTA),National Liberia (COTAYE) among others upcoming generation. Financing education, Revised C E O p r e s e n t a t i o n s a n d Teachers Association of is being held in Gompa City, This year’s JESR theme is c u r r i c u l u m , S c i e n c e , Analysis. -Press Release TUESDAY NOVEMBER 19 2019 www .thenewdawnliberia.com NEW DA WN 7 More headline news More headline news Africa needs good IP regime to maximize youthful potential recognition. migration to slavery back to Director General of Liberia --Commerce Minister The Liberian Commerce where our parents fought for Intellectual Property Atty. P. Minister stresses that no freedom,” Minister Tarpeh Adelyn Cooper says Liberia By Lewis S. Teh friendly. creator in Africa must be continues. accepts the preferment to iberia’s Minister of He tells a cross section of requested to provide collateral He urges member states to serve as chair of this august C o m m e r c e a n d participants that it is of tangible assets before act in the interest of IP now body for the next two years LIndustry, Prof. Wilson important for every member acquiring loans at their own and provide the needed local with humility and deep sense of K. Tarpeh has underscored the state’s political actors to African banks. resource mobilization. reflection on the enormous need for African countries to formulate policies that will “Let create the incentive Prof. Tarpeh suggests that IP task of ARIPO history. create policy, and instate provide the legal space for IP for our young brothers and is the only economic and Atty. Cooper reminds her measures of good Intellectual instruments to get commercial sisters to stop the willing financial issue that has not colleagues that the objective Property (IP) in order for the been affected by the price of of the Lusaka Agreement and c o n t i n e n t ’s y o u t h f u l international trade or global its revised version is to pull populations to gain their market. together scared resources of potentials. “We must use it to our member states for the “Africa needs good IP advantage as a major source of p r o m o t i o n o f h u m a n regime that will maximize its r e v e n u e f o r c e n t r a l development in ARIPO member youthful potential. You will government, and put more states by using the tools of agree that Africa is the investment and faith in the intellectual property. l e a d i n g c o n t i n e n t i n process,” he concludes. The 43rd Session of ARIPO creativity,” Minister Tarpeh A l s o s p e a k e r a t t h e will see Liberia take over as stated Monday, 18 November occasion, ARIPO Director Chair of the Session, and the at the opening of the 43rd General Mr. Fernando Dos Ministerial Council that will Session of the Administrative Santos says Africa is still steer the affairs of the Council of the Africa Regional lacking behind in the use of organization for the next two I n t e l l e c t u a l Pr o p e r t y intellectual property. years. Organization (ARIPO) in Dos Santos reveals that over Participants of the meeting Margibi County. the past 40 years, ARIPO has came from 19 member state As a Guest of Honor at the led efforts in Africa to expand countries. They are expected ARIPO meeting, Minister i n t e l l e c t u a l p r o p e r t y to deliberate on issues Tarpeh rallies all government protection. surrounding the improvement representatives - local and “As a partnership of of the organization for the next foreign - to develop policies Prof. Wilson K. Tarpeh governments, ARIPO finds solid five days here in Liberia. and adopt laws that are IP ground to continually lay the The meeting is graced by foundation for higher levels of observers from ARIPO, and IP rights protection in Africa for Cooperative Partners including Starts from back page global business,” he explains. the World Intellectual Property Cocoa and oil-palm Meanwhile the incoming (WIPO), among others.-- at demonstration sites and replanting, pest and disease he and children by selling the Chairperson of ARIPO, and Edited by Winston W. Parley farmers’ field schools (FFS) to control to quality control. harvest to buy other needs. apply BMPs on their own farms “Before, some of the farmers The CEO of Kpalamah Agro- to get more yields. had large farms, but they business Enterprise in Bong Under the BMP, farmers are couldn’t get up to one ton from County, Mr. Sylvester Kpai says taught to apply five approaches there. But for now, after the his business was established 24 w h i c h i n c l u d e f i e l d training, you can see that some July 2014 to bring new Read the accessibility; the ground cover of the farmers have all started technology when it comes to the management or replacing making good money from their hybrid oil palm seeding which is a NewDawn everyday unwanted trees; pruning which farms through the intervention commercial business in the oil involves removing old palm of Solidaridad,” Conneh says. palm sector. & fronts or parasitic crops from One of the female local He says Kpalamah Agro- cocoa trees; and the bulk front farmers in the village, Madam business is providing technical Advertise with us! stacking, among others. Victoria George says Solidaridad services to other farmers in Lack of these technical skills showed them some techniques Bong, Grand Bassa and Maryland by local farmers denied them of to plant the cocoa. Counties who do not have the harvesting enough fresh fruits “Firstly we went we brush the technical know - how about system, we were going to be earn more money. on cocoa and oil palm farms farm, they told us to plant corn pruning, layout, nursery using 15 to 20 persons to do “So we’re doing this in the p r i o r t o S o l i d a r i d a d ’s and cassava and plantain before establishment and other things. watering,” he says, adding that five counties, 84 different intervention. planting the cocoa. And we did “Solidaridad Liberia has only two persons are now needed communities and I think it’s Local companies supported all,” Victoria says. improved our economy so much, to run the sprinkler irrigation working well,” he says. by Solidaridad in the sectors According to her, the sale has transformed our investment system. Solidaridad Program Manager like EMFEED and Kpalama Agro- from the corn, plantains and from 3,000 seeding to 10,000. During an interview, Mr. Cyrus for Cocoa, BoimaBafaie says in business Enterprise in Bong are cassava on her farm has We [are] very grateful. And to Saygbe, Solidaridad Oil Palm L i b e r i a , S o l i d a r i d a d i s working as partners with sustained she and her children the people of the United Program Manager says in implementing Cocoa and Oil Solidaridad, providing services while they await harvest of Kingdom, because it is their observance of Solidaridad’s 50th Palm programs funded by the to smallholder farmers. cocoa. taxpayers’ money. It is their Anniversary, the group thinks it is Kingdom of the Netherlands and During a recent visit at a “And the cassava when I dig, I funding that’s getting us to be important to allow Liberians who the European Union. cocoa farm in Behyeepea sell it. It’s able to give our bag of where we are,” Mr. Kpai says. are not in areas that Solidaridad He says the program is village Nimba County, the rice because now bag of rice He expresses hope that the is focused to see the work it implemented in Bong, Nimba and community farm facilitator Mr. that’s L$3,000,” she says. partnership with Solidaridad does. Lofa Counties, targeting over Tony Jones says every week “At first the farm couldn’t Liberia can continue to serve the Mr. Saygbe says presently 15,000 cocoa farmers. participants are trained in bear, but now the idea the country, improve and change the “our” average yield for oil palm According to Bafaie, the core cocoa improvement. people [Solidaridad] bring to us economy here. in Liberia stands around nine of the program is the centers for “And Solidaridad too, we when I apply it on that farm, now “This is the only way that we tons per hectares per year, which cocoa development (CCDs) which appreciate them very highly the farm [is] looking good. I can can go forward. Agriculture as a he says is smaller in comparison are one stop shops that are co- because we were planting be happy,” Mr. Alphonso Deway, business is the only way we can with other African countries. funded by private sector cocoa, we didn’t know what a male farmer in Behyeepea transform Liberia’s economy,” “The standard yield should be companies to provide services to really cocoa means. But they village says. he adds. around 15 to 18 metric tons per farmers. opened our eyes. They’re “What I have to tell them is He says Solidaridad is helping hectare per year. And so with the He says Solidaridad is building making us to know that cocoa is that the program is a good them through funding, pointing best management practices we 40 of these private companies, very much important in our program,” another cocoa to a sprinkler irrigation system increase yield, use the existing 10 of which are under the EU lives,” he says. farmer, Mr. Rufus Karyar says in used by the Kpalama Agro- plot and increase yield,” he funded program Liberia Cocoa S o l i d a r i d a d C o c o a appreciation to Solidaridad. business on its oil palm nursery says. Sector Improvement Program supervisor for Nimba, Mr. Amara Also speaking, farmer Joseph to water the seeding. Cyrus notes that when yield (LICSIP) and 30 under the Dutch Conneh says the farmers go for Darwon says the first benefit he “ I t r e d u c e s l a b o r increases, the farmer gets more funded program - Cocoa t r a i n i n g i n n u r s e r y got was the corn yields during significantly. We had already fresh fruits branches and can R e h a b i l i t a t i o n a n d establishment, rehabilitation, the hunger season which helped planned that without this also sell more of the fruits to Intensification Program (CORIP). TUESDAY NOVEMBER 19 2019 www .thenewdawnliberia.com NEW NEW DA DA WN WN 88 Français Un faux programme de prêt divise le CDC e Congrèspour le Le Comité exécutif national micro-prêts" au nom du CDC et Le CDC dénonce un caprice rémunérés que l'engagement c h a n g e m e n t du CDC a insisté que le parti n’a s’est mis à collecter déjà des personnel, un acte méprisable total et le soutien à son Ld é m o c r a t i q u e d u rien à voir avec ces activités non "frais d’inscription" auprès des de la part des individus « égarés programme. président George MannehWeah autorisées du groupe qui se fait citoyens qui sont déjà en et insensibles aux dures réalités Le parti dit regretter quedes s’offusque contre des individus appeler « Libériens favorables au difficulté compte tenu de la que le parti s'efforce de individus (certains membres du non autorisés qui auraient créé changement démocratique c on jon c tu re é c on om i q u e surmonter ». g o u v e r n e m e n t ) e t l e u r s un programme de prêt au nom (LSDC) », le qualifiant de faux. quiprévaut actuellement dans le Quoiqu’elle se félicite de cohortes, outre leur manque du parti sans que les autorités Le président national, pays. Le payement des frais tout effort d'assistance sous d’engagement et leur refus de du parti en soit en courant. Le MulbahMorlu, a déclaré que d’inscription serait une forme de prêt visant à habiliter soutenir les actions de ce parti qualifie cet acte de « cegroupe, sans l’autorisation du condition qu’il faut remplir les citoyens ordinaires, la régime, recherchent des provocation extrême et parti, alancé un "programme de avant de bénéficier d’un prêt. direction du CDC a dit avoir artifices sophistiqués pour d’escalade d’anarchie », horreur « des entreprises ternir l’image du parti au Le parti au pouvoir a révélé espiègles et illégales qui visent à pouvoir en soutenant des vendredi que certaines se servir du nom du parti au positions contraires aux idéaux personnes auraient mis en pouvoir pour promouvoir des et aux valeurs du parti. place un programme de prêt au objectifs égoïstes et contrairesà Morlua annoncé que le CDC nom du parti, à deux pas de son l’intérêtgénéral du parti et de ouvriraitune enquête officielle siège national à Congo Town, ses militants. sur le soi-disant programme de collectant des frais illégaux Le CDC, qui se veut un microcrédit du LSDC, qui serait d’inscription sans que la mouvement de rédemption des présidé par la ministre adjointe direction du parti en soit massespopulaires, a dit ne pas du Commerce chargé des Petites informée. être à court d’idée pour Entreprises, JemimaWolokollie. La direction du parti au autonomiser les siens. C’est Le CDC a dit disposer des pouvoir avertit donc ses pourquoi il tient à rester preuves irréfutables de ce que militants et tous les libériens constant dans ses activités et la sous-ministre Wolokolie, que ces individus agissent à dans la promotion « de assistée de Mme Jackie l’insu de l'autorité duCDC. La l'élévation socio-économique / Capehart, M. Joshua Sackie, M. direction appelle cependant éducative » de ses membres. Budu Wilson, M. George tous ses militants à rester Voilà une nécessité considérée Kailondo, M. Rodney Wilson et calmes, tout en promettant comme une condition sine qua autres membres, a commencé à que les dirigeants du parti vont Pres. Weah CDC Chairman Morlu non qui caractérise la force et la mettre en place des structures p r e n d r e d e s m e s u r e s robustesse du parti. au nom du CDC et nommé des draconiennes dans les règles de « Cette entreprise singulière coordinateurs de district qui l'art. est inspirée de la plate-forme de seraient chargés d’identifier des développement éducatif, personnes désirant bénéficier é c o n o m i q u e e t s o c i a l d’un prêt. L’ALCOPsecoué par une récemment lancée par le CDC. Il Morlua traité ces individus s ’ a g i t d ’ u n p r o g r a m m e d’extorqueursqui avaient fui le d’assistance sous forme de CDC pendant les moments prêts. Il vise à aider notre d i f f i c i l e s , e t q u i s o n t crise de leadership population dans le cadre des maintenant revenus pour Le Parti de la coalition i n c o n s t i t u t i o n n e l e t partisans en général ». initiatives d’investissement. Il exploiter le parti. Il les a avertis libérienne (ALCOP), serait en inacceptable » tenu par le parti Selon les pétitionnaires, s’agit aussi de mettre à leur de renoncer immédiatement, proie à une crise de leadership le 5 octobre 2019 à Monrovia. l'acte présumé du président disposition des moyens de sinon ils ferontface à des interne sérieuse, à en juger par La pétition, officiellement Dorley aurait tendance à jeter subsistance durables, la santé, mesures disciplinaires allant de une plainte déposée par un signée par Jerry Yarkpah, vice- du discrédit sur le parti et créer l’éducation et la sécurité la suspension à l'expulsion dans groupe de militants désentêtés président national des affaires un désarroi total, d’où alimentaire et nutritionnelle », le respect de la loi. d e v a n t l a C o m m i s s i o n politiques de l'ALCOP, indique l’importance de saisir la a affirmé le président Morlu. Ce quotidien a tenté de électorale nationale. que le congrès en question a été commission électorale pour Selon lui, contrairement à c o n t a c t e r M m e Un groupe de partisans tenue en violation du statut et demander au parti d’organiser l'approche non institutionnelle JemimaWolokollie, sous- désenchantés d’ALCOP a des règlementsintérieurs du uncongrès national global et du groupe autoproclamé (LSDC) ministre du Commerce, par adressé une pétition au parti. Selon elle, le processus a transparent reflétant le vœu des qui agit à l’insu de l'autorité du téléphone pour en savoir plus président de la Commission été entièrement géré par le militants du parti rependus sur parti, le CDC n'attend rien sur l'allégation, mais en vain, électorale nationale, Me président par intérim du parti toute l’étendue du territoire d’autre de ses membres qui son téléphone ayant sonné sans JeromeKorkoya, lui demandant AnsuDorley, pour « se maintenir national du Libéria, dans un jouissent des emplois bien cesse. poliment d'invalider et à la tête du parti au grand dam délai de 60 jours. d'annuler les résultats d'un des membres majoritaires du Pa r c o n s é q u e n t , i l s m i n i - c o n g r è s « conseil exécutif national et des souhaitent que la NEC annule les résultats du mini-congrès qui a eu lieule 5 octobre 2019 sous la houlette du président Dorley. également le président p r é s i d e n t e n a t i o n a l e ; Ils demandent également à Dorleyde n'avoir soumis aucun MiltonDwana, président du la commission électorale de rapport sur l'état du parti comté de Gbarpolu, et Sema superviser le congrès en depuis son ascension en tant Farcarthy, comté de Grand Kru, question. que président par intérim. Ils entre autres. Selon les pétitionnaires, le ont ajoutéque depuis la Contacté, AnsuDorley, mini-congrès national du 5 suspension pour un temps président national par intérim octobre 2019 n’a été autorisé indéfini du président du du parti de la coalition par aucune réunion du conseil partiélu démocratiquement, libérienne,a affirmé qu'il ne exécutif national disposant d'un M a o g o g o F a h n b u l l e h , l a répondrait à aucune des quorum, d’où son caractère structure actuelle dirigée par allégations des requérants au illégal et inacceptable. M. Dorleya été incomplète et motif qu'il n'est pas au courant Pire, à l’issue du mini- n’a reflété un leadership de leur plainte. congrès « douteux », M. Dorly constitutionnel. Le parti de la coalition pour aurait nommé une certaine Mme Parmi les partisans lésés qui tout le Libéria est créé et dirigé BanduKromah à la présidence du ont signé la pétition, nous par le professeur Alhaji G.V. parti sans l'accord du conseil pouvons citer Jerry W. Yarkpah, Kromah. ALCOP a participé aux exécutif national et sans l'aval vice-président national des élections spéciales de 1997 avec d u l e a d e r p o l i t i q u e , affaires politiques ; Président M. Kromahcandidat à la conformément à la constitution. du comté du Maryland, Richard présidence et a obtenu 4,02% du Les pétitionnaires accusent W. Mappy ; TheresaToh, total des voix. TUESDAY NOVEMBER 19 2019 www .thenewdawnliberia.com NEW DA WN 9 Français

La Côte-d’Ivoire veut « mobiliser 616 milliards pour Commentaire Par Leandro Mora Alfonsín replanter 3 millions d’hectares de forêt » (ministère) e s b o n s p o i n t s Magic System ont planté Fernández peut-il réparer l’Argentine? d’Hamed Bakayoko à leur arbre. LAlain Donwahi | L’objectif, selon M. Drogba et A’salfo dans le Donwahi est de replanter UENOS AIRES – La crise économique aiguë Mais la crise dans l'économie réelle de l'Argentine coup 20 % de la superficie qui afflige l'Argentine depuis 2018 vient de est encore pire. Le PIB s’est contracté durant trois Le ministère des Eaux et forestière du pays. 616 Bp r o v o q u e r u n c h a n g e m e n t d e des quatre années du gouvernement Macri. A la fin Forêts a choisi la journée milliards de FCFA seront gouvernement. Le président nouvellement élu, de son mandat en décembre, le taux de pauvreté de la paix le 15 novembre nécessaires à cet effet et Alberto Fernández, hérite de son prédécesseur, devrait avoir atteint 40% ; et, après la perte de Mauricio Macri, une économie en très mauvais 140.000 emplois industriels qualifiés dans les et le ‘’grand carrefour de le ministre a annoncé une état. Aujourd’hui, l'Argentine est tout à la fois secteurs manufacturier et du commerce, le Koumassi’’ pour lancer table ronde des bailleurs accablée par un lourd fardeau de dette, des chômage sera de 10%. l’opération ‘’1 jour, 1 de fonds en janvier 2020 conflits sociaux et une inflation galopante million d’arbres’’. Une pour mobiliser ces fonds. « combinée à du chômage. Le défi de l'Argentine est maintenant de répondre à opération à laquelle des Nous voyons loin parce que chacune de ces dimensions distinctes de la crise. stars comme Didier Drogba la forêt nous concerne Depuis 2012, le pays a eu du mal à générer des En plus de stimuler la croissance, la consommation (Football) et Magic System tous. Nous voyons loin entrées suffisantes de dollars grâce à ses et de véritables investissements, les décideurs (Musique) ont associé leur parce que nous répondons exportations. Entre 2011 et 2015, la présidente doivent également stabiliser le taux de change afin de l’époque, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner de rétablir la sécurité pour les investisseurs et image. a u c h a n g e m e n t (aujourd'hui la nouvelle vice-présidente), a assurer le remboursement de la dette. Alain Richard Donwahi, le climatique… Nous plantons imposé de lourds contrôles de change qui ont ministre des Eaux et Forêts cette année un million entraîné des rigidités macroéconomiques. Mais, Ces objectifs ne sont pas nécessairement a saisi l’occasion pour d’arbres, l’an prochain ce suite à l'élimination des contrôles de capitaux en compatibles. L'Argentine doit renégocier les délais décliner la nouvelle sera 5 millions d’arbres. 2015, l'administration de Macri a depuis fait pire de remboursement de la dette avec ses créanciers politique forestière de la Nous traçons les contours que mieux. Au lieu de simplement éliminer les privés et réviser l'accord en cours avec le FMI, dont Côte d’Ivoire qui a pour d’un monde vivable et contrôles qui avaient faussé le marché des l'aide s’est avérée davantage politique que poin t d’a n cra ge , la nous avons besoin de tous changes, le gouvernement a levé tous les technique. Or, alors que la restructuration de la contrôles, y compris ceux qui empêchent les dette exigera un meilleur équilibre budgétaire, la réhabilitation de la forêt. pour réussir », a déclaré M. investissements spéculatifs, qui étaient profonde récession actuelle rend la réalisation d'un Il y a quelques jours, le Donwahi. considérés comme des garanties macro- excédent primaire en 2020 extrêmement difficile. p r o j e t d ’ i n v e n t a i r e Le ministre d’Etat, Hamed économiques. L'ajustement économique profond qu'il forestier et faunique a été Bakayoko qui a pris la demanderait pourrait être trop dur à supporter présenté à la presse. Ce 15 parole à cette cérémonie Macri a également favorisé des politiques pour les Argentins, étant donné la mesure dans n o v e m b r e 2 0 1 9 , à e n s a q u a l i t é d e d’endettement d’ampleur sans précédent, ce laquelle l'économie réelle s’est déjà détériorée. Koumassi, M. Donwahi a représentant du Premier qui a entraîné des emprunts supplémentaires Comme les soulèvements populaires au Chili et en c o m m u n i q u é s u r ministre Amadou Gon, a pour un montant de 193 milliards de dollars. Cela Equateur l’ont montré, les sociétés latino- l’ambition de son pays. fait valoir que la transition comprend un prêt de 57 milliards de dollars du américaines sont de moins en moins enclines à Fonds monétaire international, qui est arrivé en tolérer d'autres ajustements douloureux. Selon ses statistiques, 80 % é c o l o g i q u e e s t u n e addition d'un prêt précédent de 44 milliards de du couvert forestier question essentielle. « dollars (63% des lignes de crédit de l'institution Pour sa part, le nouveau gouvernement a indiqué ivoirien est perdu depuis C h e z n o u s , o n n e sont maintenant à destination de l'Argentine). À qu'il va essayer de stimuler la consommation 2015. En termes de comprend pas encore la fin de cette année, le ratio de la dette sur le intérieure de manière à réduire la pauvreté. Etant chiffres, a-t-il dévoilé, ce l’enjeu. Il faut le faire PIB du pays aura augmenté de 52% à 93% , selon donné ses ressources financières limitées, il devra sont environ 3 millions c o m p r e n d r e à n o s les prévisions du FMI. De plus, les échéances de se concentrer sur l'amélioration des conditions de d’hectares constitués de concitoyens. Que ce que la dette à court terme ont exercé une pression vie des groupes sociaux appauvris par le biais de réserves naturelles qui nous faisons aujourd’hui supplémentaire sur la balance des paiements programmes de transferts monétaires tels que déjà désastreuse de l'Argentine. l'allocation universelle pour enfant (Asignación restent sur les 16 millions engage notre avenir. Entre Universal por Hijo). Un autre objectif majeur est d’hectares du début des nous-mêmes, il a fallu Enfin, afin de freiner l'inflation, le de forger un nouveau pacte social en encourageant indépendances. Ceci b e a u c o u p d e gouvernement de Macri a encouragé la banque les syndicats et les entreprises à proposer des appelle selon lui, des s e n s i b i l i s a t i o n p o u r centrale à augmenter les taux d'intérêt toujours accords salariaux conformes aux objectifs de actions vigoureuses dont le comprendre la transition plus haut, jusqu’à un pic de 70% en octobre 2018 politiques fiscale et monétaire plus généraux. planting d’un million écologique », dira Hamed ( les taux sont actuellement encore supérieurs à d ’ a r b r e s . P l u s i e u r s Bakayoko qui a attribué de 60%). Et pourtant, cela a donné un nouvel élan Fernández doit montrer qu'il a le poids politique autorités, des collectivités bons points à l’action de aux investissements spéculatifs. pour aligner les attentes des différentes parties prenantes et mener à bien des politiques capables décentralisées et des s o n c o l l è g u e d u Dans ces conditions, le navire argentin s’est mis de stimuler la consommation et d’envoyer les bons groupes organisés s’y sont gouvernement. « Vous êtes à couler dès que les courants de l'économie signaux au marché. Il y a peu de marge de mis. C’est le cas d’Assinie un homme engagé. A mondiale ont changé. Lorsque la Réserve manœuvre dans une économie qui est si fragile. où une superficie a reçu chaque fois qu’on vous fédérale américaine a relevé son taux de Pourtant, la victoire de Fernández montre que les des semences d’arbres confie une tâche, vous référence en mars 2018, les faiblesses Argentins en ont marre de l'approche actuelle, et forestiers. A Koumassi, le l’accomplissez avec le fondamentales de l'économie argentine ont été des difficultés économiques de l'Argentine de grand carrefour qui servait cœur », a affirmé Hamed mises à nu. En raison d'une attaque sur la devise, façon plus générale. autrefois de gare routière Bakayoko, se souvenant le peso a chuté de 210% par rapport au dollar des États-Unis et l'inflation a augmenté à un rythme L'Argentine est riche en nombreuses ressources, y a été réaménagé par la ainsi du passage d’Alain deux fois plus rapide que normalement, pour compris des richesses naturelles telles que les mairie. C’est là que les Donwahi au ministère de la atteindre 48% en 2018 et un pic prévu à 60% cette métaux, les hydrocarbures, le bois et le bétail. Elle ministres Donwahi, Hamed Défense où il a imprimé sa année. a une industrie manufacturière diversifiée, dont Bakayoko, Moussa Sanogo, marque aux dires de M. les produits vont de l'acier et de l'automobile Didier Drogba et Asalfo de Bakayoko. Comme si cela ne suffisait pas, Macri n'a même jusqu’à la biochimie; et elle abrite une main- pas atteint son objectif principal de régler le d'œuvre instruite et hautement qualifiée, qui est solde budgétaire. En 2019, l'Argentine a capable de fournir des services de qualité. L'espoir enregistré un déficit primaire (hors paiements est que, une fois la crise est terminée, le potentiel d'intérêts) de 0,8% du PIB et est en voie de énorme des 45 millions d'habitants de l'Argentine doubler ce dernier en 2020 (en supposant un se déchaînera et se dirigera vers une nouvelle scénario de référence), en raison des réductions croissance et un nouveau développement. C'est le d'impôt prévues en 2017 et la baisse des revenus véritable défi face à l'Argentine et son nouveau à cause de la récession. gouvernement.

Copyright: Project Syndicate, 2018. www.project-syndicate.org TUESDAY NOVEMBER 19 2019 www .thenewdawnliberia.com NEW DA WN 10 bases in Sudan along the Red Sea Coast, Somaliland, Russia, Africa and the Debts and Egypt. Another publication highlights Russia's military bases in Madagascar, Mozambique, and Cont’d from page 5 "The most important aspect of economic cooperation Guinea. Lately, the Central African Republic intends to Debt relief is an effective tool in this regard. Under the in our foreign policy is to encourage African countries host a Russian military base. Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative (HIPC), our to trade with us and to not only depend on country has written off over 20 bn US dollars of the development aid. Always looking for aid makes these Last October, President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, principal debt owed by African countries alone. Russia countries less productive and funds for projects end up African Union Chairman and Co-Chairman of the also contributes to reducing the debt burden of the in foreign banks at the expense of the suffering Russia-Africa Summit, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, noted in his poorest countries beyond the HIPC through debt-for- population," Lavrov said. speech at the plenary session of the Russia-Africa aid swaps. We also take other steps towards the Economic Forum: Africa welcomes the efforts to settlement of debt owed to Russia, both within In March 2019, President Vladimir Putin chaired a encourage an open door policy and cooperation with its multilateral and bilateral formats, he added. meeting of the Commission for Military-Technical partners with a view to making a breakthrough in Cooperation with Foreign States and Kremlin's website developing its economy. Russia and other foreign Speech by the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov transcript pointed to the geographic reach of military- countries as well as international financial at the reception on the occasion of Africa Day, Moscow, technical cooperation as constantly expanding, with organizations have to develop cooperation and invest 22 May 2014 (1243-22-05-2014). As it is known, Russia the number of partners already in more than 100 in Africa. has written off over 20 billion US dollar debt of African countries worldwide. states. We are undertaking steps to further ease the Since then, President Putin has repeatedly called for Further, the Egyptian leader urged international and debt burden of Africans, including through conclusion renewed efforts, not only, in preserving, but also, in regional financial organizations to take part in funding of agreements based on the scheme "debt in exchange strengthening Russia's leading position on the global Africa's economic growth and to give it financial for development"according to the Foreign Minister. arms market, primarily in the high-tech sector, amid guarantees on consolidating its economic potential. tough competition. He further called for reliance on This would help promote trade and investment. In April, 2014, the President of the Russian Federation, the rich experience in this sphere and building up Further urged foreign countries to grant African states Vladimir Putin, approved the new State policy concept consistently military technology cooperation with generous terms for their projects and development programmes, which will help Africa reach its dream - to embark on the road of progress, modernization and sustainable development.

Before concluding his speech, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi emphasized that cooperation with Africa must be based on common interests, on the protection of African property, which would allow Africa to promote comprehensive sustainable development by carrying out three major goals.

First, it is necessary to accelerate economic reforms and create a businesslike atmosphere by establishing close partnership with the private sector. Second, it is essential to implement social justice principles with the broad participation of society. Third, it is necessary to consolidate peace and stability in accordance with the African Union's Agenda 2063 and Sustainable Development Goals 2030. Significantly noting that African Union officials have repeatedly urged African leaders to prioritize Africa's Agenda 2063 – a strategic framework for delivering on Africa's goal for inclusive and sustainable development – and the United Nations' Sustainable Development of the Russian Federation in the area of contribution to foreign states. Goals (SDGs). The 15-member UN Security Council has international development. Its practical unanimously adopted a resolution welcoming AU implementation will contribute to the build-up of "We strictly observe international norms and principles initiatives for infrastructure development and participation in the area of assistance to the in this area. We supply weapons and military pledging support for "African solutions to African development of states of the African continent, equipment solely in the interests of security, defence problems" in an attempt to achieve the Sustainable according to the report posted to the website. and anti-terrorism efforts. In each case, we thoroughly Development Goals (SDGs). assess the situation and try to predict the Transcript of Remarks by Minister of Foreign Affairs of developments in the specific region. There are no *KesterKennKlomegah, an independent researcher on the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov at Reception on bilateral contracts ever targeted against third Russia, Africa and BRICS. He is the author of the Occasion of Africa Day, Moscow, May 26, 2008 (751-26- countries, against their security interests," he Geopolitical Handbook titled "Putin's African Dream 05-2008). "Russia has done a great deal to alleviate the explained. and The New Dawn: Challenges and Emerging debt burden, particularly in the framework of the Opportunities" devoted to the first Russia-Africa Enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative, According to the Kremlin website, Russia targeted Summit 2019. and in writing off multilateral debts to the IMF and the global export contracts worth 50 billion dollars in 2018. International Development Association. The overall Russia's export priority is to expand its scope and amount of the African countries' indebtedness strengthen its position on the market. cancelled by us, including on a bilateral basis, exceeds Over the past years, strengthening military-technical 20 billion dollars, of which about one-half in the last cooperation has been a strong part of the foreign policy two years," Lavrov told the gathering on Africa Day in of the Russian Federation. Russia has signed bilateral 2008. military-technical cooperation agreements with many African countries. On the other hand, Moscow's post- As far back as May 2007, the Foreign Ministry showed Cold War relations with Africa, interest in Africa's debts. "We are helping our African undoubtedly, lean toward partners reduce the burden of foreign debt. We have military support and arms written off African debt within the framework of the trade. Analysis by the initiative to reduce the indebtedness of the poorest Stockholm International nations," Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at May 25 Peace Research Institute gathering of a group of ambassadors, diplomats and (SIPRI) indicates that between ministry officials marking Africa Day. 2014 and 2018, Russia accounted for 49% of arms The move signaled Russia's intention to fulfill its imports to North Africa and commitments made at that time Group of Eight (G8) 28% to Sub-Saharan Africa. meetings as well as paving the way to increased trade with the African continent. It was then, signed into law A f r i c a h a s s t a r t e d March 10 ratifying the agreement between Russia and accumulating fresh debts. For African countries it aided during the Soviet era. Russia example, Johan Burger's continued discussions on a full debt write-off on article details crucial bilateral basis, African countries owed nearly US$20 information in relation to billion. The debt was primarily through weapon Russia's military interests in deliveries, according to the official transcript. Africa. Russia has established or intends to establish military TUESDAY NOVEMBER 19 2019 www .thenewdawnliberia.com NEW DA WN 11 CBL suspends 25 percent on remittances he Central Bank of notes and the announcement market. Liberia announced of several steps aimed at President George Manneh TMonday November stabilizing prices and reviving Weah had asked members of 18, 2019 that it has suspended the economy, including, the 54th Legislature currently the 25 Percent Remittance increasing the Standing on annual break to return to Split Policy for December, Deposit Facility to 30 percent, the Capitol and endorse the 2019 to enable Liberians while setting the Standing request from the Executive for receive full remittances from Credit Facility at 500 basis new banknotes. relatives, loved ones and points above the former. Meanwhile, the CBL says friends abroad during the The CBL issues shorter tenor output declined at a rate of 0.1 Christmas and New Year instruments at 30 percent percent at the end of holidays. spanning ( two weeks, one, September 2019, compared This means that those three, six and twelve months) with a decline of 0.8 percent at receiving remittances from while lowering the Liberian the end of June 2019, on the relatives and friends abroad Dollar Reserve Requirement back of weak production and will no longer to take 25% of from 25 to 15 percent, and consumption activities, while the said amount in Liberian increasing the United States growth for 2019 is projected to Dollars. Dollar Reserve Requirement be 0.4 percent, from 1.2 A CBL release issued says from 10 to 15 percent, percent in 2018. the Board of Governors of the respectively. “Inflationary pressures have Central Bank took the The Government of Liberia heightened as the Liberian decisions at the first presently seeks legislative d o l l a r w e a k e n e d . B o t h monetary policy meeting approval to print new Liberian consumer price inflation and since the adoption and financial market conditions. in restructuring the Central banknotes, totaling LRD34 the rate of depreciation of the approval of a new monetary These measures come Bank of Liberia to tackle Billion to replace two separate Liberian Dollar are in double policy framework for the exactly a week after the Liberia’s challenging economy, sets of banknotes currently in digits in the wake of worsening economy. Executive Mansion here named particularly price, exchange circulation. trade balance and growing The release notes the a new Executive Governor of rate and financial stability. The move comes at a time inflation expectation. The stipulated decisions are the Central Bank of Liberia, Prior to his preferment, he when property accountability current gross foreign reserves aimed at executing the CBL’s Mr. Jolue Aloysius Tarlue to c h a i r e d t h e B o a r d o f is still lacking for the last position is less than three core mandate of achieving replace former Executive Commissioners of the Liberia banknotes printed and brought months of import cover”, the and maintaining price Governor Nathaniel R. Patray, E l e c t r i c i t y R e n e w a b l e into the country, involving release issued by the Bank stability, based on global, who resigned in October. Commission. some LRD16 billion. reads. regional and domestic Mr. Tarlue is expected to This also comes amid plan Many economists and However, it assures the economic developments and lead a team of other governors to print new Liberian currency financial experts, including measures taken are expected o r d i n a r y L i b e r i a n s a r e to help contain inflation, apprehensive about the plan to control the level of the print an astronomical 34 Liberian dollar in circulation Opposition split on printing new money billion, fearing uncontrollable and ease the pressure on the By E. J. Nathaniel Daygbor currency to replace the over by the ALP political leader i n f l a t i o n w h e n t h e Liberian dollar exchange rate a w m a k e r s current Liberian banknotes. Benoni Urey, asked opposition whereabouts of the previous vis-à-vis the United States representing the four Representative Kiazolu, lawmakers not to approve the 16 billion is still in question, dollar as well as promote Lc o l l a b o r a t i n g also a former Comptroller printing of new currency, but coupled with serious integrity confidence in the Liberian opposition political parties in General of the Republic of the lawmakers informed the and confidence challenges at dollar and provide investment the House of Representatives Liberia under former President e x e c u t i v e c o m m i t t e e the CBL itself. opportunity for Liberian dollar here have signed a resolution, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, notes m e m b e r s t h a t t h e y Two members of the House with a higher rate of return, approving the request from though they have urged for the (lawmakers) had already given of Representatives – Larry which would, in the medium- President George Manneh printing, the resolution also green light for the printing. Younquio of Nimba County and term, impact the savings rate Weah to print new Liberian calls for close working E x e c u t i v e c o m m i t t e e Dixon Sebo of Montserrado and boost domestic capital banknotes that should be in relationship between the m e m b e r s o f t h e f o u r County say the request to print mobilization for long-term circulation before the end of House and the Ministry of collaborating political parties new money is not expedient for investment. the year despite rejection by Finance and Development h a d d e m a n d e d t h e now, warning of hyper- “The CBL wishes to assure their leaders. Planning and the Central Bank government to account for the inflation and other dire t h e p u b l i c o f i t s f u l l Appearing OK Fm’s live of Liberia to ensure the right LRD16 billion that the economic consequences. commitment to moderating morning talk show in Monrovia features, security measures authorities said were in the But the Executive thru the the current inflationary Monday, November 18, and acceptable images as vaults of the Central Bank, the Minister of Finance and pressure to support stable Montserrado County Electoral maybe required by statue. US$25 million withdrawn from D e v e l o p m e n t P l a n n i n g , macroeconomic environment District #17 Representative L a s t w e e k , t h e the national reserves to mop recently said money should be in Liberia. These policy Hassan Kiazolu from the collaborating political parties up excess liquidity, and a printed to enable government measures will be reviewed former ruling Unity Party said including, the former ruling forensic audit to establish the pay civil servants, many of every three months as the his colleague lawmakers from Unity Party, the Liberty Party, actual story behind the scene whom have taken pay for Board meets to assess their the opposition have already Alternative National Congress before proceeding with the months due to extreme effectiveness.” penned a resolution, calling and the All Liberian Party in an printing of new banknotes. shortage of banknotes in the for the printing of new emergency meeting presided T h e c o l l a b o r a t i n g opposition parties also requested their lawmakers to totally avoid participating in Read the NewDawn everyday the printing of new banknotes, but the lawmakers insisted & they have gone too far to abort the exercise. Advertise with us! However, the opposition leaders have resolved to continue engaging their lawmakers on grounds that the mood for the printing of new circulation. printing of new banknotes is currency for the country ahead On the question of their not a best option to the current of Christmas. return to the Capitol, Kaizolu economic challenges facing Government employees, said he had received SMS text the nation. including lawmakers have not from Speaker Bhofal Chambers The Liberian government is taken pay for three months due that their resumption to work in the process of printing new to the notes shortage. will be announced later. banknotes to replace the Representative Kaizolu said According to him, Speaker current notes that are their primary concern is to Chambers did not state reason, reportedly in shortage here. ensure printing of new but he (Kiazolu) surmised But to the dismay of the CPP banknotes, rather than President Weah might have Rep. Hassan Kiazolu Mr. Benoni Urey l e a d e r s h i p , o p p o s i t i o n additional printing of the requested the delay. -Editing lawmakers are in jubilant banknotes currently in by Jonathan Browne eThew French Version Inside N TRULDYa INDEPENDENTwn VOL. 9 NO. 204 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2019 PRICE LD$40.00 With Emmanuel B. Juduh Bucky Raw, others win MTN Liberia music award

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