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Under New President, Liberia Seeks to Cement Peace With Economic Gains

Under New President, Liberia Seeks to Cement Peace With Economic Gains

When Joe Mason's 10-year-old daughter saw electricity for the first time in her life, she danced.

The years of war, 1989 to 2003, ruined the public power supply in this capital. Liberians with means relied on generators; those without money, however, lived in the dark.

Given her father earns $90 a month as a hotel clerk, Mason's daughter could not have known what electricity was until President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf turned it on in July 2006, illuminating the lamps on Monrovia's major streets.

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