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Free at last?

A year after electing Africa�s first female president, things may be looking up for this war-torn nation founded by former slaves. Tristan McConnell reports from Monrovia

Sugar Hill, Monrovia, and thepungentsmellof exhaled opium wafts out of the glassless window of a wooden shack.