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Liberia’s Weah, media on edge as reporter flees
There has been no honeymoon period for the press under the new government of President George Weah
Fearing war, Ivorians flee to neighbouring Liberia
Dinmin Omin (52) has not forgotten the bombs that fell in Côte d’Ivoire’s civil war, killing his brother and uncle.
Liberia president seeks second term
Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Africa’s first woman president, has announced she will run for re-election next year.
Crime wave hits Monrovia
Monrovia has been hit by a crime wave that has left inhabitants fearing for their lives while the government admits the situation is deteriorating
Liberia’s TRC panel begins public hearings
Liberia President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf appealed for honesty on Tuesday as her war-racked West African country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) began its public…
Johnson-Sirleaf shines in revitalising Liberia
One year after taking the helm of a country torn by 14 years of war, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is winning praise for her efforts to restore the rule of law in Liberia, and for…
Monrovia still in the dark despite power pledge
One of Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf’s promises the day she took the oath of office in January was to urgently restore the electricity supply to the capital where…
Residents flee ethnic clashes in northern Liberia
Thousands of residents fled Liberia’s second-largest commercial city of Ganta after hundreds of young men from the Mano ethnic group attacked homes of the rival Mandingos early…
Twelve years on, massacre still haunts Liberian town
Twelve years after rebels butchered thousands in tiny Kpolopkpalah in central Liberia, Martha Yarkpawolo spends her days sitting on the rock where so many were slain, singing…
Liberia’s former exiles dominate new Cabinet
Liberian politicians who fled into exile as a bitter war raged in the West African country are set to dominate the country’s first post-war Cabinet, President Ellen…
Trying Charles Taylor would open Pandora’s box
Newly elected to the Liberian Parliament, the estranged wife of Liberia’s notorious former president Charles Taylor believes that attempts to bring him before the United…
Taylor’s hopes of returning home may be dashed
Hopes that former Liberian president Charles Taylor’s party would perform well on his behalf have been dashed by early results from last week’s vote, which could undermine his…
Liberia’s former fighters turn to violent crime
A wave of often serious crime by former fighters in Liberia has alarmed police and welfare officials, who say the ex-combatants are going back to armed tactics for lack of the…
Liberian village picks up the pieces
With handpumps, latrines and the unimaginable luxury of electricity, the inhabitants of Cestos City in eastern Liberia are slowly rebuilding their ruined town under the shadow of…
No peace in Liberia until Côte d’Ivoire disarms
Liberia’s security will remain precarious until concentrated efforts are made to disarm next-door Côte d’Ivoire, General Daniel Opande, the Kenyan military commander for the UN…