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Senate approves creation of new county

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    The Liberian Senate passed a law on Tuesday creating a fourteenth county to be called River Gee, Liberian Information Minister Joe Mulbah told IRIN on Thursday.

    The new county, comprising six districts, has been formed out of the eastern county of Grand Gedeh, which is on the border with Cote d’Ivoire.

    Grand Gedeh is populated mainly by Krahns, the ethnic group of former president Samuel Doe, who was killed in 1990. Since 1976, however, there had been calls for the creation of a new county in southern Grand Gedeh by members of the Grebo ethnic group who said they felt marginalised by the Krahns in the north, according to Mulbah.

    When asked if this move might encourage other minorities to call for the same treatment, he said: “We have not heard cries from other places, so far.”

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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