The daughter and niece of Samuel K. Doe and Charles Taylor, respectively, traded accusations on social media this week over competing accounts of their fathers' roles in Liberia's civil war, with ...

In 1822 the United States starts sending freed black slaves to a part of West Africa that eventually becomes Liberia. The new arrivals declare independence in 1847... In 1822 the United States starts ...

Human rights groups on Monday urged the Liberian president should renew his executive order to establish a war crimes court for crimes committed in the two Liberian civil wars. Adama Dempster, the ...

(Monrovia) – Liberian President Joseph Boakai should follow through on his commitment to justice and human rights by renewing an executive order key to establishing a war crimes court to address ...

Nov 7 (Reuters) - From 1989-2003, Liberia became for many a byword for savagery as up to a quarter of a million people were killed in a civil war, while thousands more were mutilated and raped, often ...

A South Jersey man has been sentenced to five years in prison for lying on his immigration documents. Laye Sekou Camara concealed his past as a rebel leader in the Second Liberian Civil War. Witnesses ...

President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has formally submitted legislation to the House of Representatives seeking to establish a War and Economic Crimes Court and a National Anti-Corruption Court, advancing ...

Liberia has issued one of its strongest diplomatic calls in recent years for far-reaching reforms at the United Nations, warning that the world body risks losing credibility and moral authority if it ...

MONROVIA, Liberia, June 27 (UNHCR) - An eclectic group of 53 refugees, including students, tailors, professional soccer players, musicians, artists and restaurant owners, returned home this week on ...

MONROVIA, October 11 (UNHCR) - Every day at two in the morning, Bessy gets up to bake bread. She does it quietly, trying not to wake her children. By five, this single mother of two fixes a modest ...