Nobel winner Ellen Sirleaf faces challenge in today's election. Oct. 11, 2011 — -- The opposition party in Liberia, where elections are being held today, said it would welcome back former warlord ...

Commentator Jeremy Levitt talks about the many allegations against former Liberian President Charles Taylor — and the likelihood that an outcome that all parties involved will find satisfactory may be ...

Click image for more photos. Former Liberian President Charles G. Taylor was sentenced to 50 years in prison on Wednesday for his role in Sierra Leone's decade-long civil war that left more than ...

MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberia's international soccer star turned presidential candidate has named the ex-wife of former President Charles Taylor as his running mate. In a statement broadcast by ...

And I'm Melissa Block. In West Africa today one drama ended and another began. Former Liberian President Charles Taylor was captured while on the run in Nigeria. He'll now face war crimes charges at a ...

Liberia, West Africa’s most forested country, has a long history of illegal logging, which the country’s regulator, the Forestry Development Authority, has repeatedly struggled to confront. So it ...

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor is guilty of "aiding and abetting" forces in Sierra Leone that committed war crimes and other atrocities during a war that lasted more than a decade and left ...

A rebel leader in Liberia’s civil wars, he was accused of numerous atrocities. The most notorious was the videotaped mutilation and killing of President Samuel Doe. By Trip Gabriel The human rights ...

Former Liberian President denies charges: ordering rape, mutilation, amputation. July 14, 2009— -- Former Liberian President Charles Taylor took the stand today in The Hague and vehemently ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said in a news release Monday that agents returned a Liberian national to his home country on grounds that he is suspected of violating human rights and being ...

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