Liberia’s Senate on Tuesday endorsed a joint resolution calling for the prosecution of individuals responsible for the more than a decade-long civil war and looting of the country’s resources from ...

Talk about your first day you arrived in the U.S. in 2004? I was 13 years old. Dec. 20, 2004. We flew from my home in Liberia. We landed in Minneapolis. My mom was a nurse, and she was here prior to ...

Fighters from the United Liberation Movement of Liberia shoot their way through downtown Monrovia, Liberia, April 16, 1996, during the West African country's civil war. Jean-Marc Bouju/AP/File By Ayen ...

The 1990s and early 2000s were a bloody time in Africa. Civil wars raged in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Hollywood focused attention on the war’s human toll in films such as Blood Diamond and Beasts of ...

In a renewed push for long-delayed justice, the human rights community, led by the Independent National Commission on Human Rights (INCHR) and supported by civil society organizations, transitional ...

President Joseph Boakai on Thursday signed an executive order to create a long-awaited war crimes court to deliver justice to the victims of Liberia's two civil wars, characterized by widespread mass ...

BUDUBURAM, Ghana (Reuters) - Sitting on a tattered mattress amongst the rubble of his former home, Wendell Elijah Mallobe is one of 15,000 Liberian refugees left destitute after authorities in Ghana ...

One man accused Laye Sekou Camara — whose nom de guerre was K-1 — of shooting his aunt in the head. Another said that as he begged Camara for mercy, the Liberian rebel general pulled out a gun, pistol ...

(The Center Square) – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers continue to arrest and deport war criminals. The latest is a female Liberian war lord and child soldier recruiter. After she ...

MONROVIA, October 11 (UNHCR) - Every day at two in the morning, Bessy gets up to bake bread. She does it quietly, trying not to wake her children. By five, this single mother of two fixes a modest ...