Liberia Cannot Afford to Be Naïve About Robert Friedland

Liberia Cannot Afford to Be Naïve About Robert Friedland

Editorial - Robert Friedland's expanding footprint in Liberia is not merely another chapter in the country's long struggle to attract foreign investment. It is a test, perhaps the most consequential one in years, of whether the Liberian state has learned anything from decades of lopsided concessions, opaque negotiations, and the costly habit of placing strategic national assets in the hands of private actors whose interests rarely align with the…