DAKAR (Reuters) - Liberia's forestry department has given a quarter of the nation's land to logging firms over the past two years in a flurry of shady deals now under investigation by the government, advocacy group Global Witness said on Tuesday.
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, fending off accusations of graft and nepotism within her government, has suspended the head of the West African state's Forestry Development Authority and launched a probe into the recent timber deals amid concerns of widespread fraud and mismanagement.
