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Former Taylor Associate Thanks Obama for Lifting Sanctions

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One of the candidates in Liberia’s 2017 presidential election who had been affected by U.S. sanctions since 2003 says he’s thankful to President Barack Obama for lifting the measures. Businessman Benoni Urey, a past associate of former President Charles Taylor, said he’s grateful to President Obama not for himself but for other Liberians, some of whom he said had been sick but could not travel abroad to get treatment because of the sanctions. In lifting the sanctions last week,...

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