‘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 ...

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.

Liberia, April 16, 1996, during the West African country's civil war. Jean-Marc Bouju/AP/File By Ayen Deng Bior, Contributor It has been two decades since the end of Liberia’s second civil war ...

“Liberia’s quest to bring closure for victims of civil war atrocities, and ensure their access to justice, remains a major priority,” said Adama Dempster, secretary-general of the Civil ...

A Liberian immigrant who spent years living ... ranking rebel general known as “Dragon Master” during a Liberian civil war.

Cole’s work on the effects of civil war in Liberia won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. She is also two-time winner of the Robert Capa Gold Medal for war photography from the ...

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 ...

Born in Liberia, Adina Thembi Ndamse was less than a year old when the first Liberian civil war broke out in 1989. Due to the severity of the war and the strive for survival, her parents ...

PARIS - The West African nation of Liberia goes to the polls on October 10 to decide whether to give football legend George Weah a second term as president. Here are five things to know about the ...

By the outbreak of the Civil War, in April 1861, he was one of the largest coffee farmers in Liberia—and he hoped that this new country, to which several thousand Black Americans had fled to ...

A Hamilton non-profit has received a major boost for a “first-of-its-kind learning centre” it has built in the west African ...