This article was written with Liberia in mind but could serve as a policy resource for any African or developing nation. By: Austin S Fallah, contributing writer Liberia, a nation rich in natural ...

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.

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 ...

Since 1980, civil ... War II. After the war, Liberia’s rubber industry boomed, thanks in part to new agreements with Firestone and investment by the United States, which gave millions to ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

after fleeing Liberia's civil war. "My bed, television, clothes - everything I have worked for is gone." More than 200,000 people were killed and thousands more were mutilated and raped in brutal ...

Liberia's civil wars, notorious for their brutality and use of child soldiers, left an estimated 250,000 people dead between 1989 and 2003. The first war started when politician and warlord ...