When it opened its doors in 1960, the Ducor was one of a few five-star hotels in Africa, boasting a night club and air-conditioned rooms, according to travel guides
Guinea is fighting the virus with a vaccine used in the DRC, while their neighbours Sierra Leone and Liberia increase border surveillance
A generation of women in Liberia have been irrevocably scarred by the use of rape as a weapon in the country’s civil wars.
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.
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.
A former Liberian warlord has told the country’s TRC that the US released Charles Taylor from jail in 1985 to overthrow president Samuel Doe.
Monrovia has been hit by a crime wave that has left inhabitants fearing for their lives while the government admits the situation is deteriorating
United States President George Bush, winding up a trip to Africa, promised war-scarred Liberia that the US will see its staunchest ally on the continent out of ”days of challenge…
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…
A criminal court has ordered the arrest of Liberia’s ex-president Gyude Bryant on allegations that he embezzled ,3-million while in office. Bryant, who led the nation for two…
West African military chiefs have charged that the United States has failed to consult adequately with countries that will be affected by a planned American military command for…
Sanctions against former Liberian president Charles Taylor and his entourage are impairing his ability to defend himself against war-crimes charges, his lawyer said on Wednesday.…
Under an old foam mattress in one of Monrovia’s slums, Niome David keeps a dark memento — the underwear her nine-year-old daughter was wearing the night she was raped. The mother…
Liberian authorities investigating a possible coup plot have discovered a large cache of new AK-47 ammunition in a town on the main road to Côte d’Ivoire, police said on Monday.…
Liberia on Monday resumed diamond trading after lifting a self-imposed ban on the gems, officials said. The embargo imposed four years ago had been in line with a United Nations…
The Liberian government has lifted a self-imposed moratorium on the mining, sale and export of diamonds that had been in place for six years, officials said on Saturday. Deputy…
The world’s largest charity hospital ship docked in Liberia on Wednesday to begin a mission to bring free healthcare to Africa. The 80-bed Africa Mercy, a former Danish rail…
A Liberian Cabinet minister has resigned following the publication of pictures showing him having sex with two unidentified women, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf said. Minister…
Thousands of Liberians on Monday lined the road from airport to the seaside capital, Monrovia, to welcome their leader back from a donors’ conference where she secured a massive…
