MONROVIA, Jan 20 (Reuters) - A stampede at a church gathering in Liberia's capital Monrovia killed 29 people overnight, the deputy information minister told state radio on Thursday. The incident ...

A barrage of mortars shook Liberia's capital Monday, hitting residential neighborhoods along with two U.S. Embassy compounds, and killing more than 90 people as government and rebel forces fought ...

MONROVIA, Liberia (CNN) --Liberia has always held a special place in my heart. It was the first country I visited outside my native Kenya. Freed American slaves began colonizing Monrovia -- named for ...

There is much to love about Liberia once you can see past the Ebola ... Ditto “Chocolate City,” a suburb of the capital, where a chocolate plant was never constructed. Over in “Cemenco ...

MONROVIA, Liberia – Witnesses say scores of demonstrators are descending on Liberia's capital to protest former soccer star-turned-President George Weah and the West African country's economic woes.

MONROVIA, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Thousands of people gathered in Liberia's capital Monrovia on Sunday as opposition leader Joseph Boakai launched his campaign ahead of October elections that will ...

a devastating blaze raged through the halls of power in Liberia’s capital, Monrovia, when the parliament building caught fire, destroying vital offices and archives. The incident was the second ...

“Partisanship must give way to nationalism,” Boakai told citizens and foreign delegation members who attended his inauguration ceremony in Monrovia, Liberia’s capital. He listed improving ...

Tanzania's capital Dodoma and Yamoussoukro in Côte ... Monrovia is home to 1.5 million people and lies on the Atlantic coast of Liberia, one of the poorest countries in the world.

I was in Gbarnga - the stronghold of then-rebel leader Charles Taylor, whose forces controlled most of Liberia except the capital, Monrovia. Where better to tell those stories than on the BBC ...