Tag: Liberia

The Liberian Coast Guard has rescued 23 crew from a Chinese fishing vessel that was hijacked off the country’s coastline. The Armed Forces of Liberia...

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has expressed its willingness to assist the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) in developing its airpower capability. The NAF’s Chief...

A Liberian rebel commander was sentenced in Switzerland to 20 years in jail on Friday for rape, killings and an act of cannibalism, in...

A Swiss court will rule on Friday whether a Liberian rebel commander committed rape, killings and an act of cannibalism in one of the...

A former rebel commander accused of involvement in killing civilians, rape and eating pieces of a school teacher’s heart during Liberia’s civil war decried...

A former rebel commander accused of being involved in the killing of 18 civilians and other crimes that included rape and eating pieces of...

Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous nation, and Liberia declared states of emergency on Wednesday to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, a day...

Cote d’Ivoire and Liberia share more than a border. The two West African nations have a recent history of civil war and upheaval. Both...

Liberia’s armed forces are now operating Streit Cougar armoured vehicles, representing one of the military’s biggest acquisitions since the civil war came to an...

Last week, Liberian President George Weah asked the country’s legislature to establish the Extraordinary Criminal Court to try the perpetrators of war crimes and...

Thousands of Liberians took to the streets of Monrovia to protest against corruption and economic decline many blame on their once hugely popular president,...

Thousands of protesting Liberians took to the streets of Monrovia to demand the return of $104 million in cash missing on the...

Peace is not just about restoring stability after violence. It is also about investing in the structures and institutions that will ensure...

US Africa Command senior enlisted advisor, Chief Master Sgt. Ramon "CZ" Colon-Lopez, conducted a site visit to Liberia between 2 and 4...

A former Liberian warlord known as "Jungle Jabbah" was sentenced to 30 years in prison for gaining US asylum by lying about...

The Nigerian Air Force has finished training two Liberian pilots, the first since the end of that country's civil war in 2003,...

The United Nations closed its peacekeeping mission to Liberia on Thursday, 15 years after it was deployed in the aftermath of two...

Finally, after a three-year drought, the Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership has a winner: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa's first-ever female...

Four survivors of a church massacre that killed 600 people during the Liberian civil war on Monday filed a civil lawsuit in...

Former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has won the 2017 Mo Ibrahim award, designed to improve the quality of African political leadership,...

After 14 years of serving in the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), an official farewell ceremony was held this week in...

George Weah, a former international soccer star who won the presidency of Liberia last month, promised a crackdown on endemic corruption as...

A Dutch businessman convicted in April of selling weapons to ex-Liberian president and warlord Charles Taylor was arrested in South Africa on...

Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said democracy in the West African country was threatened a day after the Supreme Court put a...

Liberia's Supreme Court ruled to halt a presidential run-off vote until the electoral commission investigates claims of fraud in the October first...

Liberia's Supreme Court halted preparations for next week's presidential run-off vote between former soccer star George Weah and Vice President Joseph Boakai...

Liberia's Supreme Court has put next week's presidential run-off election on hold until it considers a challenge to first round results by...

Liberia's ruling party, whose candidate finished runner-up in the first round of this month's presidential election, said it would back a legal...

Crammed into tumbledown shacks on a sandspit the Atlantic Ocean is steadily devouring, residents of Liberia's most notorious slum have a common...

Thousands lined up at polling booths in Liberia's capital on Tuesday for their first democratic transfer of power in 73 years in...

British police arrested a woman in London on suspicion of torture during the civil war in Liberia more than 25 years ago. The...

Dutch timber trader Guus Kouwenhoven was convicted as an accessory to war crimes for selling weapons to Liberia's then President Charles Taylor...

Half of all Liberians think their West African nation could plunge back into conflict more than a decade after civil war ended,...

Liberia's parliament speaker said on Thursday he is stepping down to face bribery charges in a case involving London AIM-listed Sable Mining's...

The United States has donated 20 Land Cruiser vehicles and two Boston Whaler boats to the Armed Forces of Liberia. Some of...

Liberian security forces yesterday (June 30) took full control of their security for the first time since the civil war ended 13...

Dr Catherine Buzmion-Cheong, a United Nations peacekeeper, was working in Liberia when the first case of Ebola was confirmed in the West...

The United Nations Security Council voted on Wednesday to end sanctions and an arms embargo on Liberia, citing the West African country's...

Police shuttered the offices of the Liberian branch of the Red Cross on Thursday days after the president dismissed its board of...

Police fired teargas and threw stones at a crowd gathered near a court in the Liberian capital Monrovia on Monday to demand...

The Chinese government has donated $3 million worth of equipment to the Armed Forces of Liberia, including 20 trucks, two graders, 10...

"We see you as family," Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf last week told the women of the all-female Indian police unit serving in...

Traumatised by the death of eight of her relatives from Ebola, Tina Varney stares blankly out of the window while recalling the...

Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Thursday vowed to crack down on those responsible for a rise in ritual killings in the...

The Security Council has extended the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) until September 30 next year as well as authorising a reduction...

Spanish authorities have arrested a American man on charges of enslavement and diamond pillaging during Sierra Leone's civil war, a victims' association...

The United States military officially ended a mission to build treatment facilities to combat an Ebola outbreak in Liberia on Thursday, months...

South Africa's wider health sector, including the military, has and is contributing to the fight against Ebola. Earlier this month the SA Military...

Unidentified gunmen crossed over from Liberia and launched a pre-dawn attack on an army base in western Ivory Coast on Saturday, killing...

The death toll from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has risen to 6,331 in the three worst hit countries, with Sierra...