Liberia faces 'huge task'.(ENI)--Liberia faces a "huge task ahead" but has turned a corner after its 14-year civil war, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Gyude Bryant Charles Gyude Bryant (born January 17, 1949) was the Chairman of the Transitional Government of Liberia from October 14, 2003 until January 16, 2006. The installation of the transitional government was part of the peace agreement to end the country's second civil war, which had , a long-time lay leader in Liberia's Episcopal (Anglican) church, who now heads the country's transitional government. "We are convinced we will rebuild," Mr. Bryant told U.S. church leaders and representatives at a recent meeting in New York's Episcopal Church Center. Mr. Bryant took up office last October as chairman of the two-year transitional government that will help lay a foundation for national elections in 2005. He was in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of for a two-day United Nations conference that aimed to raise funds to rebuild the devastated dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. West African country where the civil war is believed to have resulted in 200,000 deaths and to have uprooted 500,000 persons. |
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