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Africa’s first female president was propelled to power on a tide of democratic passion from voters eager to turn the page on the years of civil carnage. Ellen...
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He is reliving the moment when he escaped death in the “land of blood and tears.”
“In 1990, I was a very small, and I saw so many things,” he...
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AP, Washington
The State Department said Tuesday it has awarded contracts worth more than $250 million to build new U.S. embassies in the capitals of Serbia and Liberia. It also has...
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AP, Monrovia
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf apologized to her nation Thursday for the role she once played in supporting the man who launched the country’s 14-year civil...
made popular Feb 12 2009
AP, Monrovia
Liberia’s president has declared a state of emergency over an invasion of crop-eating caterpillars that has affected 350,000 people in the West African country.
made popular Jan 27 2009
AP, Monrovia
Authorities in Liberia have set up a command post and called on international experts to help fight an invasion by millions of crop-devouring caterpillars that are...
made popular Jan 25 2009
AP, Shankpala
Liberia’s worst caterpillar plague in three decades has spread to neighboring Guinea after swarms of the crop-eating insects devastated more than 45 towns in the...
made popular Jan 23 2009
AP, Rome
Hordes of voracious caterpillars are destroying crops and prompting terrified villagers to flee their homes in northern Liberia in what is described as the West African...
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One night, in a country swept up in a long and harrowing armed conflict, Liberian social worker Leymah Gbowee dreamt that she gathered women together to pray for...
made popular Dec 12 2008
AP, Halifax
Conjoined twin baby girls from Liberia who were traveling to New York for medical treatment died aboard a plane that was diverted to Canada on Thursday.
made popular Nov 21 2008
AP, Dakar
The Peace Corps will return to war-ravaged Liberia on Sunday for the first time since fighting erupted nearly two decades ago, its goal to help rebuild the West African...
made popular Oct 22 2008
AP, Dakar
The U.S. Peace Corps is returning to war-ravaged Liberia next week for the first time since brutal fighting erupted there two decades ago.
made popular Oct 22 2008
AP, Monrovia
Disputes over land ownership and property boundaries are threatening to undermine Liberia’s fragile peace, the nation’s reconciliation body and the European...
made popular Oct 13 2008
The brutal 14-year Liberian civil war, known locally as ‘World War Three’, may be a history but the country is facing a new conflict. Orphanages all over...
made popular Sep 7 2008
AP, Monrovia
A former Liberian warlord whose drugged fighters once appeared on camera holding up a human heart dodged questions Wednesday and refused to accept any wrongdoing during...
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AP, Monrovia
One of Liberia’s most infamous warlords admitted Tuesday that he had trained in Libya and helped topple the government of Burkina Faso before overthrowing...
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AP, Monrovia
U.S. Peace Corps volunteers will return to Liberia for the first time since civil war broke out in this West African nation nearly two decades ago, U.S. and Liberian...
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AP, Amsterdam
The former president of Liberia is on trial. A vice president of Congo is in custody. The former leaders of Cambodia are in the dock. And a key figure in the Bosnia war...
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An Interview With Robert Young Pelton
The following is an excerpt from News E-Magazine GlobalPundit.Org’s Interview with author( World’s Most Dangerous...
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WINDHOEK: The President of Liberia, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa’s first female president, arrived in the capital of Namibia yesterday on a three-day...
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The Association of Female Lawyers of Liberia (AFELL), have raised concern over the slow pace in the prosecution of rape cases and other sexual and gender based violence...
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Recent BBC investigation has revealed that girls have been subjected to rape and prostitution by the UN peacekeeping troops especially in Haiti and Liberia.
Although,...
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