Iron ore mining operations are starting to resume after being shut down during the Ebola outbreak. With a slump in iron ore prices, Robtel Neajai Pailey and Silas Kpanan Ayoung Siakor in a blog on The African Angle, argue that the slow-down affords Liberia an opportunity to bring communities into the process of renegotiating mining concessions.

There has been a call for debt relief and an infusion of aid in the form of grants and loans to mitigate the loss of revenue during Liberia’s bout with Ebola. Yet, the most important formula for economic recovery will be value addition, rigorous tax assessments, collection, and oversight in the country’s mining sector.

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