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/ 21 October 2011
A former warlord has announced he will support Nobel peace prize- winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in Liberia’s run-off election.
An ex-warlord has announced that he will support Nobel laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in Liberia’s run-off election to win a second term as president.
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/ 14 October 2011
Liberia’s Nobel winner and incumbent president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf took a strong lead over rival Winston Tubman on Friday.
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/ 14 October 2011
The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf must count as one of the most political acts in the history of the prize.
To maintain Liberia’s presidency, Nobel laureate Ellen Sirleaf must join forces with a man who ordered troops to cut off the ears of a former leader.
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/ 14 October 2011
They call her Ma Ellen, a fond nickname for Africa’s most powerful woman. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.
Liberians are voting in the country’s second election since it emerged from a 14-year civil war in 2003, a litmus test of its fragile democracy.
Liberia buzzed with election fever as Nobel laureates, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and women’s activist Leymah Gbowee took to the streets.
Liberians are weighing the impact of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s Nobel Peace Prize victory which has been slammed as an unfair boost ahead of elections.
The Zimbabwe Football Association says there could be this weekend’s decisive African Cup of Nations qualifier could be fixed.
The struggle for 2012 Africa Cup of Nations places reaches a climax this weekend with 21 countries chasing 10 tickets to Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.
Liberia will hold a constitutional referendum on Tuesday to determine the country’s readiness for its second post-war election.
ArcelorMittal has started production at its $1.5-billion iron ore mine in Liberia after work was stalled there last year.
Liberian ex-president Charles Taylor’s trial for arming Sierra Leone rebels who paid him in blood diamonds closed on Friday.
The lawyer of former Liberian president Charles Taylor on Wednesday dismissed his war-crimes trial as a political conspiracy.
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/ 9 February 2011
Charles Taylor snubbed his war crimes trial for a second day on Wednesday and judges adjourned the case as they consider allowing a defence appeal.
Model Naomi Campbell is set to testify in a war-crimes court on Thursday about a "blood diamond" gift from Liberian warlord Charles Taylor.
A former rebel chief in Sierra Leone told a court on Monday that he never received weapons from former Liberia president Charles Taylor.
Model Naomi Campbell will be summoned to testify over a "blood diamond" she was allegedly given by Liberian ex-president Charles Taylor.
UK model Naomi Campbell can be called to give evidence over a blood diamond prosecutors say she was given by former Liberia president Charles Taylor.
Liberia’s president defends the country’s finance minister against charges of corruption, blaming a lack of procedures for the mishap.
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/ 26 January 2010
Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Africa’s first woman president, has announced she will run for re-election next year.
United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Liberia on Thursday, anxious to show support for Africa’s only woman president.
A generation of women in Liberia have been irrevocably scarred by the use of rape as a weapon in the country’s civil wars.
Liberia’s former president, Charles Taylor, on Monday denied that he had ever eaten human flesh or ordered his fighters to do so.
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/ 27 January 2009
Liberia on Monday declared a state of emergency in the country, where thousands of people are affected by an invasion of crop-destroying insects.
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/ 16 January 2009
A human rights group has denounced what it calls ”deplorable” conditions in Liberia’s prisons and has called for reforms in how they are managed.
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/ 14 January 2009
Liberia has just 122 doctors to treat its 3,5 million people, who desperately need at least 1 000 physicians, or almost 10 times that number.
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/ 20 December 2008
The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously on Friday to maintain an arms embargo on Liberia and a travel ban for another year.
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/ 5 December 2008
Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has denounced widespread corruption in the West African country’s government.
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/ 14 October 2008
Disputes over land ownership and property boundaries are threatening to undermine Liberia’s fragile peace, according to a survey released on Monday.
A former Liberian warlord, whose drugged fighters appeared on camera holding up a human heart, dodged questions on Wednesday before the country’s TRC.