Liberia did not receive its name until 1824 ... but Burrowes deduced from an 1824 map that the initial purchase involved only about 140 acres. He added that a similar piece of land in much ...

UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 7 -- The United Nations is preparing an ambitious new plan to overhaul Liberia's key governing institutions, rebuild its ruined infrastructure and create a force of about ...

This first map shows the spread of the disease in the ... infections): When the current outbreak of Ebola first reached Liberia, there were only two known cases of the disease anywhere in the ...