Tales of atrocities dominate accounts of Liberia's years of civil war but not a ... he was going out to buy bread in Monrovia. "I don't like to talk about the war, I don't like to think about ...

the appellation "Monrovia." That city is the capital of the West African nation of Liberia, which has been left, after 10 years of brutal civil war, with a barely functioning government.

Thousands of Nimbaians gathered in a somber yet spirited procession on Tuesday, January 15, 2025, to receive the remains of their revered leader, Senator Prince Yormie Johnson, as his body arrived in ...

Monrovia, for a while to hear local testimony. Around 250,000 people were killed during the internal conflicts that ended in 2003. This was the first prosecution over Liberia's civil war to be ...

Video by Evelyn Kpadeh Seagbeh The 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 ...

Liberia National Police and the Liberian National Bar Association expressed serious frustration about law enforcement and the ...

104 The failure to properly reintegrate ex-combatants could potentially cause civil unrest in ... After Ex-Fighters Riot,” Monrovia, May 13, 2005. [106] “Liberian Disarmament, Demobilization ...

MONROVIA, Liberia — Emergency services in Liberia were tackling a fire in the parliament building on Wednesday that broke out as opposition protests spilled into a second day. Authorities did ...

Prince Johnson, the Liberian ... politics after the civil war ended and was elected senator in 2006. He died on Thursday at a local hospital in Paynesville, a suburb of Monrovia, said Siafa ...

MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — The parliament building in Liberia caught fire Wednesday and the country's president condemned the “wanton destruction,” even as no link was immediately confirmed to ...