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MONROVIA, LIBERIA

    
    Monrovia is the capital and the largest city of Liberia, an administrative centre of county Моntcerrado. The population of the city is about 670000 inhabitants. Monrovia has been based in 1822 by the Negros liberated from slavery which has moved from the USA (named after then president of the United States James Monroe).
    The city has turned in due course to a prospering shopping center with 2 international airports and a seaport which freight turnover is about 12 million tons annually. Today the descendants of the free slaves are all a linden minority in an ethnic diversification of the capital, however the American Negros render the big influence on political, cultural and public life of Monrovia.
    Monrovia is a unique duty-free port in the Western Africa. It is located in an artificial bay in a mouth of the river Saint Paul and equipped with the modern port equipment. The economic well-being of the city is reflected in its architecture. Near the shanties high office buildings grow. Alimentary, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, cement industries, fishery are advanced. The city receives big the income of transit of the goods into neighbor countries.
    Many buildings of the city were destructed during civil war of 1990. In 1994 the decision to form a transition government made of fractions from all conflicting groupings was accepted. However peace achieved by such efforts had appeared to be fragile, and already next spring in the streets of city shootings began again. The city has turned to arena for robberies and murders, and on congested camps of refugees an epidemic of a plague, taken with it thousands of lives has run. The 1996 has been marked by the next explosion of aggression, and then services of foreign ambassadors have been compelled to leave the capital.

Abstract Painting - 'Calabash in Blue'
Rich shades of blue emanate from bowls made of calabash gourds. Present everywhere in West Africa, they are a familia... Read more...