{"id":8447,"date":"2022-02-01T08:58:24","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T08:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/liberias-abandoned-hotel-stands-as-a-symbol-of-a-haunted-past"},"modified":"2022-02-01T11:21:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T11:21:44","slug":"liberias-abandoned-hotel-stands-as-a-symbol-of-a-haunted-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/liberias-abandoned-hotel-stands-as-a-symbol-of-a-haunted-past","title":{"rendered":"Liberia\u2019s abandoned hotel stands as a symbol of a haunted past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Liberia. <\/strong><\/span>Towering above Liberia\u2019s ramshackle capital, Monrovia, stands a hotel that once symbolised an African dream, yet today it lies in ruins, a legacy of brutal conflict.<br \/>\nWhen it opened its doors in 1960, the Ducor was one of the only five-star hotels in Africa, boasting a night club and air-conditioned rooms, according to travel guides.<br \/>\nAt its height, it hosted VIPs such as former Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie. Guests would lounge next to the swimming pool, sipping cocktails and watching the sun set over the Atlantic.<br \/>\nBut the Ducor closed in 1989 at the outbreak of back-to-back civil wars that ran from 1989 to 1997 and from 1999 to 2003, and swiftly fell into disrepair.<br \/>\nToday, little of Monrovia bears the visible marks of war, but the Ducor\u2019s decaying hulk stands as a reminder of the conflict that killed more than 250 000 people.<br \/>\nThe hotel lies in limbo, and even who owns it seems unclear.<br \/>\nThe ruin, on top of one of the city\u2019s highest hills, looms over Monrovia\u2019s downtown and the densely populated West Point slum.<br \/>\nThe former hotel\u2019s rooms have been stripped bare, mildewy walls are pockmarked with bullet and shell holes, and the grounds have become a haunt for drug users.<br \/>\n\u201cIt makes everybody sad,\u201d said Ambrose Yebea, a retired tourism ministry official who previously offered tours of the hotel.<br \/>\nLiberia\u2019s government once planned to restore the hotel to its former glory with the help of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.<br \/>\nBut there has been no progress since his downfall in 2011, and time continues to chip away at the Ducor.<br \/>\nThere were few hotels in Monrovia in the 1950s, according to Yebea, prompting the construction of the Ducor in 1960 to cater for travelling executives and government officials.<br \/>\nDesigned by Israeli architect Moshe Mayer, in modernist style, it became one of Africa\u2019s most luxurious hotels.<br \/>\nGolda Meir, then Israel\u2019s foreign minister, who later became prime minister, attended its opening ceremony. As did Guinea\u2019s independence leader, S\u00e9kou Tour\u00e9.<br \/>\nPhotos of the hotel from the era show a gleaming building and guests taking life easy.<br \/>\nOne of the persistent anecdotes related to the Ducor, which AFP was unable to verify, holds that former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin swam in the pool with his gun.<br \/>\nAnother guest, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire\u2019s first president, F\u00e9lix Houphou\u00ebt-Boigny, was so taken with the hotel that he arranged for Mayer to build a similar luxury establishment in Abidjan, which is still in operation.<br \/>\nMany of Africa\u2019s leaders stayed at the Ducor during the 1960s and 1970s, including Selassie, Yebea said, with several of them booking rooms during the 1979 conference of the Organisation of African Unity in Monrovia.<br \/>\nBut by that point, the hotel was probably already in decline.<br \/>\nA 1975 World Bank report on Liberia describes the eight-storey hotel as \u201crun down\u201d and mentions government plans to renovate it.<br \/>\nFormer Liberian warlord Charles Taylor positioned gunmen in the Ducor during the 2003 siege of Monrovia, at the close of the war.<br \/>\nLater, squatters occupied the site. But then president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who won office in Liberia\u2019s first post-war election, evicted them in 2007.<br \/>\nShe launched renovation plans. In 2011, her government handed the Ducor to the Libyan African Investment Company, a subsidiary of Libya\u2019s sovereign wealth fund.<br \/>\nAccording to a 2011 government statement, the hotel was to have 151 rooms, restaurants, a shopping centre, a tennis court and a casino \u2014 as well as provide jobs in the impoverished country.<br \/>\nBut the project \u2014 which, with another scheme to develop a rubber-processing plant, was priced at $65-million \u2014 then fell to another war.<br \/>\nLiberia cut ties with Gaddafi\u2019s Libya in 2011 as the country descended into civil war. Renovation works stopped.<br \/>\n\u201cIt came to us as a big shock,\u201d said Frank Williams, a labourer who said he had been one of 150 people employed by the Libyan African Investment Company. \u201cToday we are jobless.\u201d<br \/>\nThe project has been at a standstill since then, and its future is unclear.<br \/>\nNeither Liberia\u2019s presidency nor its tourism ministry, nor the Libyan African Investment Company, responded to several requests for information.<br \/>\nThe Libyan entity is under European Union sanctions over its alleged close links to the former Gaddafi regime.<br \/>\nIn 2020, the United Nations Security Council also said that the Libyan African Investment Company is struggling financially, incurring debts for the hotels under its management.<br \/>\nSome still hope to see the Ducor reborn. Yebea said it could lure tourists and generate jobs. \u201cEvery Liberian sees it the same way. They want it to be refurbished\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\">Liberia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Liberia. Towering above Liberia\u2019s ramshackle capital, Monrovia, stands a hotel that once symbolised an African dream, yet today it lies in ruins, a legacy of brutal conflict. 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