The deep distrust of government created by years of war is evident in villages like this one, a tough, long drive through the forest from Liberia's capital, where people don't understand why census workers have been chalking numbers on every house, lean-to, hut and shack.
"What do you think they want with my house?" says Monogo Kebeh, 70-year-old woman outside her mud hut here.
The census is an exercise as old as the Roman Empire, but in a country that has not had a one for a quarter century it's anything but ordinary. For more than a year, over 9,000 census-takers have combed the densely forested nation mapping every structure. For three days …
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