Liberia: 'Exciting' New Challenge Liberia's Max Bankole Jarrett, BBC Veteran Discusses Appointment to Kofi Annan's APP Secretariate

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Monrovia — A year before the rice riots of 1979, Max Bankole Jarrett left the shores of his homeland, Liberia for boarding school in London, England, but even as war raged on, his voice as a producer and presenter for the popular BBC Network Africa morning programme, always kept his ears on the ground and his homeland, in tune to his progress at Bush House.

Last week, Jarrett was unveiled as the new Deputy Director of the Africa Progress Secretariat, headed by former United Nations Secretary General, Kofi Annan. Jarrett is on a two-year loan from the UN Economic Commission for Africa.

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