15 Years of Black Suicide in Liberia, Africa's Little America Becomes a Real-Life Purgatory!
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 Published On Mar 19, 2023

The French humanistic travel documentary series Les Routes de l'impossible tells the story of people who, at great risk, struggle to make a living by driving vehicles (cars, trucks, boats...). This episode of Hard Ride takes us to the West African coastal country of Liberia, which currently has a population of about 5 million people and an area of about 110,000 square kilometers. Liberia is a black country created by the United States, and has been called "Little America in Africa" because it has copied everything from its system to its flag and even its constitution. This country, which originally intended to copy the successful experience of the United States, has eventually turned into a hell on earth. People have to pay for a pair of slippers in installments and cannot feed themselves, making it one of the least developed and poorest countries in the world. During the Liberian Civil War from 1989 to 2003, blacks killed each other for 15 years, resulting in the deaths of more than 200,000 people and more than 1 million refugees. Although the war has subsided, the pace of reconstruction has been slow...

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