Monrovia NightLife: Scarlet Bar, Mamba Point - Cocktails!
You'd be surprised how good the nightlife is in Monrovia. Here we're at the beautiful 'Scarlet' where they bring Europe to Liberia. Scarlet has really good music, impeccable service and killer cocktails - we're getting what I think was a flaming Lamborghini!
Located directly across from the famous Mamba point hotel, so very easy to find. It is owned by Alexi Bsaibes (son of hotelier Chawki Bsaibes of Mamba Point hotel) who always goes out of his way for his customers and frequently works at the bar to ensure that the facility is always up to the best standards that his family name is known for.
Inside Monrovia's drugs haven
Evidence of Liberia’s continuing transition
from the scars of war to socio-economic resuscitation abound. Among them are social problems that have taken their toll almost entirely on the country’s youthful popula tion after a long spell of fifteen years on the sidelines.
It would be recalled that families were broken and children exposed to bad peer influences
during the war, which in turn condemned most to ghetto life. Today, amidst sexual abuses and addiction to dangerous substances based on the ignorance of some about the associated negative impact of such lifestyles, an entire generation faces complete breakdown in the ghetto.
The glimmer of hope lies in the fact that some, if not all, want to be bailed out. But as M-News Africa's Michael Roberts, writes as he digs into life inside Monrovia’s most dangerous hideouts, any nation that does not develop a blueprint to emancipate its vulnerable groups will be setting itself up for chaos. “Walking from the main streets of Monrovia, just on the outskirts of Broad Street, I was welcomed by a drug cartel that comprises young people, some of whom are below 15 years of age. Behind the building that used to house the Ministry of National Defense is a courtyard filled with makeshift zinc shacks. Thin smoke oozed from their roofs as if readying to produce flames. In the slum shanties were gang members who yelled at me to stay away or risk being attacked.
Their faces were bloated. “What is this man doing in the hole here? We will not talk to him
because many fake people have been coming under the disguise of finding news and getting us out of this life but most of them were “419” (fake) people,” they said almost in unison. But one of the ring leaders, 28 year-old Folobor Sesay, admonished the angry folks as he approached me with civility: “gentlemen, if some of you don’t want to leave this life, others want to do so. We are tired living like this. So, if this man is coming to hear our stories and share them with kindhearted people, it is a good idea”. Suddenly, an atmosphere of calm set in. Folobor then told this magazine how he was forced to adopt such lifestyle by a friend. “I am a driver by profession.
I started taking marijuana when I met a friend who had spent most of his life doing the same thing,” he said. Although many drug users are perceived to be men- tally challenged, Folobor
spoke with unusual alertness and understanding of the danger associated with the act. “We are making the drug sellers rich and it is spoiling us. So, I am really praying for someone to help me to flush this thing from my body. I have a wife and a three year-old child. When it is in us, we can steal and take people’s things. I don’t want to go to the mental home,” he explained.
Following my brief conversation with Folobor, I was led into one of the inner shanties of the
drug users.
I met 31 year-old, Mary. A mother of four but pregnant again, Mary faked no smile and didn’t hide her emotions. She is obviously addicted. But the greater concern is about the three year-old baby boy seated close to her. It is certain that he would himself grow to be-come an active drug user if nothing is done urgently to save him. “I can sit here and smoke the whole day, ain’t get time for anybody, as nobody got time for me,” Mary declared in a cracking voice.
She would soon confirm the fear of this writer that the young boy is on the way to becoming an addict himself. Mary’s words: “That’s my son, he is three years old. I can give him marijuana tea every day and at times he can chew the marijuana seed. But whenever he takes it in, he feels dizzy and falls asleep”. The revelation was so disturbing I thought she might have been so brutally affected by the drugs that she was going insane. Unfortunately, it was a bold face honest
admission, coming from a very troubled woman. Mary said she was introduced to drugs by her fiancé. “He told me taking drugs would make me sexually active.
I am seven months pregnant now but I will not stop until I give birth. Even when I deliver, I will take some that same day “. To compound her situation, Mary disclosed that she still engages in prostitution despite her pregnancy just to be able to fund her smoking habit, which she claimed is only limited ‘tie’ because adding cocaine would wear her body down. “Imagine I am pregnant but I can’t stop. I don’t know what will happen to me but I am just doing it. As pregnant as I am, I can still do commercial sex to support my habit”, she said in a worried tone.
For 32 year-old Edwin Jacobs, alias “car washing-too short”, ghetto life started eleven years ago through his girlfriend who cajoled him to take cannabis to make him sexually potent. “We went to the club one night and when we got back, she gave me some of the substance and said it would increase my sexual potency. I started with marijuana first. When I tried it the first time, I started to feel very dizzy. I even vomited. Read more @mnewsafrica.com
Liberia/Sierra Leone-Foreigners Flee Liberia
T/I 10:14:27
US military helicopters evacuated more than 180 foreigners from
the violence in the Liberian cpaital Monrovia on Friday (12/4), as
West African peacekeeping troops struggled to maintain order.
Journalists said the ECOMOG (West African peacekeepers) compound
was being used by people unable to reach the main evacuation point
at the US Embassy on Mamba Point.
SHOWS:
MONROVIA, LIBERIA/FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE 12/4
MONROVIA, LIBERIA:
Pull out from ocean to interior of US helicopter
Cu gunner
Gunner at rear of helicopter
Cu helicopter pilot
Ws exterior US embassy with US soldiers
Ws entrance to US embassy
Helicopter takes off from US embassy
Aerial of Monrovia as helicopter flies over
Helicopter on ground at ECOMOG compound
WS evacuees stream toward helicopter
US troops in field
Cu soldier
Ws evacuees stream toward helicopter
Ws evacuees enter helicopter
Interior helicopter with evacuees
Cu baby
Ws helicopter rear gunner
Ws helicopter landing at US embassy
Ms US soldier pointing
Ws helicopter
Ms Helicopter with soldiers
Ms evacuees assembled waiting to leave
US soldiers marshalling evacuess
Cu soldier on radio
Ws helicopter takes off
Helicopter heads out over water
FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE:
Helicopter lands
Soldier in foreground, helicopter in background
Ws evacuees come off helicopter
Cu evacuees come off helicopter
US soldier by transport plane
Brian Johnson, aid worker, SOT in English: We were invaded the
night before..they stole six of our cars, threatened us..(with
what?)..raping our children, other things like that..(no one
was hurt?)...no
Cu US soldier holding child
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Sergeant Monrovia club scene
Liberia - Evacuation From Monrovia
The evacuation of US and other nationals from Monrovia, where inter-factional fighting and violent looting have raged for the last six days, resumed Thursday (11/4). Violence erupted last Saturday after police tried to arrest ex-minister General Roosevelt Johnson. Gunfire and explosions have since rocked the city as the fighting continued. The United Nations has orderd non-essential staff to relocate to Sierra Leone with the other evacuees.
SHOWS:
MONROVIA, LIBERIA 11/4
0.00 smoke in distance over rooftop sound of explosion and camera
knocked upsot: 'look-out'
0.08 tank in distance moves along bridge pan to house
0.20 ms tank obscured by palm trees
0.26 fighter plane overhead
0.35 hotel manager sot: 'monrovia used to be a safe haven,
with the fighting used to take place outside monrovia now
they are here
0.46 ms united nations compound pan to see people sitting on grass
0.50 people sitting in compound, zoom-in on woman
0.59 dusk people run to helicopter pan to helicopter interior
1.04 dusk shots from helicopter of monrovia
SIERRA LEONE 11/4
1.09 un helicopter
1.14 cu helicopter interior sierra leone
1.19 people sitting at dinner table
1.24 sot american civilian on plane: 'we were under fire for
about ten hours in our house with rocket propelled grenades
going over the house and stray bullets
1.32 cu of wife pullout to ws child and man on plane
1.38 VISION ENDS
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Trigga_'Life in Monrovia'
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Monrovia`s Red Light District in the Morning
Liberia - Looting And Fighting Continues
T/I: 10:52:23
Forces loyal to leader Charles Taylor launched a new attack on a barracks holding about 10,000 people Tuesday (16/4), sending refugees fleeing what they thought was a safe haven. Meantime in Mamba Point, looting that has forced aid organizations to leave the country continued. Some residents have formed their own vigilante groups, carrying machetes and standing guard over their property.
SHOWS:
MONROVIA, LIBERIA 15/4
sound of gunfire over pictures of beach
militiamen running by beach
man with gun getting into car
armed men running in the street
man with gun running on beach
sound of gunfire over shots of street
man dumping equipment and running off
vs militiamen running along beach
gunman yelling down street
vs gunmen in the streets
soldier loading magazine
captain of NPFL, Ibrahim Amayos sot I don't know why they are shooting at us.
fighters on the streets
woman scurrying off with children
Mamba Point Hotel
car full of fighters driving past
man with gun and knife
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