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Liberians go to the polls on Tuesday in the country’s first general elections since civil war was brought to a halt in 2003. About 1,3-million registered voters — out of a…
Since the start of a United Nations disarmament programme in Liberia in December 2003, much attention has been paid to the painfully difficult process of reintegrating the…
Fourteen years of war have brought about a near-terminal decline of public services in the Liberian capital, Monrovia. As a result, the streets are littered with household waste,…
The journey back to normal life was never going to be an easy one for the ex-combatants of Liberia’s civil war. But, it could be argued that women fighters face a particularly…
When former Liberian president Charles Taylor took up Nigeria’s offer of exile last year, he left behind a country where the flow of information had slowed to a trickle —…
For many people, photographs of crazed child soldiers operating under the influence of drugs were amongst the defining images of Liberia’s civil war. These pictures no longer…
Liberia’s hopes for peace were rekindled last October when a power-sharing transitional government took office with a mandate to run the country until elections in 2005. But,…
Public confidence in Liberia’s banks appears to be at a new low, with many people now opting to keep their money elsewhere -– some in foreign accounts. The latest blow to the…
Liberia has developed a programme to disarm some 40 000 combatants whose future seems uncertain after 14 years of a brutal war. Analysts say the move seeks to help Liberia to put…
