The United States wants the Economic Community of West African States to take the lead in any mission to end 14 years of almost non-stop war in Liberia. Washington has said it might send a small ...

Haunted by the scars of Liberia's brutal civil war, 100 women from Nimba County have broken their silence, demanding justice for the atrocities they endured. With a unified voice, they are calling on ...

A Liberian immigrant who spent years living ... ranking rebel general known as “Dragon Master” during a Liberian civil war. Prosecutors had been preparing to take Laye Sekou Camara to trial ...

Former military President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida has revealed that Nigeria’s intervention in Liberia’s civil war was driven by the need to safeguard the economic and political stability of ...

A main road through downtown Monrovia, Liberia is pictured, Oct. 04, 2023. John Wessels/AFP via Getty Images Before the American Civil War, many formerly enslaved people and their descendants ...

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That city is the capital of the West African nation of Liberia, which has been left, after 10 years of brutal civil war, with a barely functioning government. Yet a third of the world's shipping ...

Could the USA have prevented Liberia's disintegration into civil war? America's strategic interests in Liberia Liberia's prospects for the future Were the 1997 Liberian elections fair? Public ...

and her Nigerian husband was a merchant travelling regularly between Liberia and Nigeria. When he was killed during the civil war in Liberia, Georgia and her children fled to live with his family in ...

agreed to the establishment of the War and Economic Crimes Court in Liberia. Another group of Liberians (61%) agreed to forget about the crimes committed during the civil war and move on.

Liberia is one of the poorest countries in the world where only a small minority of families have clean water or sanitation. The country is in ruins after years of civil war. Child mortality is ...

Yellow school buses wend their way through streets with familiar names like Johnson and McDonald. There is a Masonic temple, ...