T he lawyer responsible for setting up Liberia's long-awaited war crimes court told AFP that the first trials will take place in the next five years, more than two decades after the brutal civil ...

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 ...

A main road through downtown Monrovia, Liberia is pictured, Oct. 04, 2023. John Wessels/AFP via Getty Images Before the American Civil War, many formerly enslaved people and their descendants ...

The United States wants the Economic Community of West African States to take the lead in any mission to end 14 years of almost non-stop war in Liberia. Washington has said it might send a small ...

Monrovia - On Monday, March 17, 2025, Judge George W. Smith of the Sixth Judicial Circuit, Civil Court "A" and Annex "B," proposed a legislative reform aimed at subdividing the Civil Law Court into ...

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Could the USA have prevented Liberia's disintegration into civil war? America's strategic interests in Liberia Liberia's prospects for the future Were the 1997 Liberian elections fair? Public ...

The war in Liberia began in December 1989 when the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), led by Charles Taylor, entered Liberia from the Ivory Coast and launched a military offensive to ...

But his fledgling career was interrupted by World War II, where he served in Liberia, in the medical corps, for nearly three years. In addition to garnering acclaim as an actor, writer ...

Given the background of a brutal seven-year civil war, Liberia's transition process was slow and shaky. Three years after a U.N.-supervised election brought former faction leader Charles Taylor to ...