Decoration Day reminds us in Liberia that life is fragile. More than 300,000 of our brothers and sisters died in a senseless conflict that thankfully has ended. Most, if not all, Liberians ...

Liberians this week observed Decoration Day - when they visit cemeteries to clean dead relatives’ graves and spend time with the departed. But Ebola has changed the observance this year. Some ...

Editorial - SO MANY YEARS ago, the National Legislature of Liberia saw the wisdom and social imperative to declare the second Wednesday in March each year Declaration Day.

March 11 marks Decoration Day in Liberia, a national holiday that honors dead relatives and ancestors. Families usually gather at cemeteries, painting gravestones, singing and leaving colorful ...

Decoration Day has been marked in Liberia for 99 years on the second Wednesday in March. All flags in the nation were lowered to half-staff at a minute past midnight.

“Wednesday was Decoration Day, the day when Liberians clean and decorate the graves of their ancestors. We walked around in the Palm Grove cemetery in the late afternoon, after most people had already ...

As Liberia solemnly laid to rest former President Samuel Kanyon Doe and former First Lady Nancy B. Doe in a state reburial and burial ceremony more than three decades after his deaths, former Grand ...

Gabriella Jozwiak finds Decoration Day is time to spruce up the family vault (and party a while) in Monrovia; Alan Johnston ponders the great names of Rome's non-Catholic cemetery Show more ...

The President of the Republic of Liberia, His Excellency Ambassador Joseph Nyuma Boakai, Sr., has by Proclamation declared Wednesday, March 13, 2024 as “Decoration Day” and it is to be observed ...

On Decoration Day, Liberians visit cemeteries to clean dead relatives’ graves and spend time with memories of the departed. But Ebola has changed the observance this year. Emotional day ...

But Wednesday, the first Decoration Day since the main brunt of the recent Ebola epidemic hit Liberia last year, was heartbreaking, not just because of the loss of 4,117 Liberian lives, but also ...