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The public-service billboards along Liberia's roadways only begin to hint at the magnitude of challenges facing a nation trying to right itself after 14 years of civil war that ended in 2003.
On 23 April, Liberia’s Supreme Court affirmed the legitimacy of the Speaker of the House of Representatives Jonathan Fonati Koffa. This followed months of legislative impasse and political crisis ...
Human rights groups on Monday urged the Liberian president should renew his executive order to establish a war crimes court for crimes committed in the two Liberian civil wars. Adama Dempster, the ...
“Liberia’s quest to bring closure for victims of civil war atrocities, and ensure their access to justice, remains a major priority,” said Adama Dempster, secretary-general of the Civil ...
Ten months into the Civil War ... Liberia, bringing new coffee to market from Liberian farmers like Othello Richards and Thomas Moore. The Union also sent advisers to Liberia, including Edward ...
Former military President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida has revealed that Nigeria’s intervention in Liberia’s civil war was driven by the need to safeguard the economic and political stability of ...
Morris looking at old newspaper clipping documenting his journey with the farm (Pic by Cherri Gregg) Determined to rise above that fate, Gbolo pursued higher education, studying agriculture in college ...
During Liberia’s civil war, young men picked up rifles when they had nothing left. Morris Matadi was one of them. He was recruited as a child soldier after rebels killed his family and put a ...
‘Death squads’ from Liberia’s military were responsible for committing massacres during the civil war [File: Patrick Robert/Sygma via Getty Images] Conmany Wesseh, a former senator, minister ...
Liberia's civil war forced thousands of people to flee Liberian President Joseph Boakai has signed an executive order to establish the country's first war crimes court, more than 20 years after ...
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — President Joseph Boakai on Thursday signed an executive order to create a long-awaited war crimes court to deliver justice to the victims of Liberia's two civil wars ...
Liberia has taken a step forward to end impunity for civil war atrocities after the Senate endorsed a joint resolution seeking the establishment of a UN-backed Special War Crimes Court. Liberia’s ...