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 selected four American architectural firms to compete to design a new embassy in London.

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 war.

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.

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 eating their way across the country with dire economic consequences.

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 West African nation, officials said Friday.

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 country’s worst plague in 30 years, a U.N. agency said Thursday.

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.

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 nation’s shattered education system.

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.

Disputes over land ownership and property boundaries are threatening to undermine Liberia’s fragile peace, the nation’s reconciliation body and the European Union warned Monday.