The new country will be among Africa's most-oil rich from day one, an advantage other devastated, post-conflict nations like Liberia did not enjoy as they began their state-buidling processes.

从这一天开始，这个新的国家会成为非洲最富有的国家之一，这种优势并没有被破坏，而其他历经冲突的国家如利比利亚在国家建设的进展中未曾利用到这种有利条件。

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One August day in Liberia, six pregnant women lost their babies when hospitals couldn't admit them for complications.

利比里亚八月的1天内，6名怀孕妇女失去了自己的宝宝，因为医院担心埃博拉并发症而不敢让其入院。

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A prosecution witness alleged that the former Liberian president to Voinjama, had traveled on the road the main city in northern Liberia, close to the borders of Guinea and Sierra Leone, a day earlier.

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As it turned out, for the two weeks we were in Liberia it rained almost every day, sometimes nonstop for two or three days.

CNN: Liberia: Sweet land of liberty now bitter, broken

But still the shadow of the past is in every conversation, from the indicted leader in The Hague, who is filling newspaper inches every other day - and there are an awful lot of newspapers in Liberia - to the young adults whose education was disrupted, to the nation's ruling elite.

BBC: African view: Land of liberty?