In the early 2000s, Liberia was a byword for civil war, chaos and child soldier as conflict raged in the West African country. Beginning with a rebellion in 1989 led by American-educated warlord ...

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FILE - This is a Saturday, Sept. 5, 2009, file photo of people as they clear bones and skulls that were on display in Kpolokpai, Liberia. The remains of hundreds of people killed 15 years ago near a ...

MONROVIA, LiberiaMONROVIA, Liberia — The U.S. government has sanctioned Liberia’s ex-warlord and current senator Prince Yormie Johnson for alleged corruption. The sanctions against Johnson come under ...

FILE - In this photo taken Wednesday Feb. 17, 2010, Liberian Senator Prince Johnson, gestures during an interview in Monrovia, Liberia. (AP Photo, File) MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Prince Johnson, the ...

MONROVIA — The murderous civil war in Liberia has reached so volatile a state that on my first day in Monrovia, the capital, I found myself on both sides of the fighting without ever having changed ...

MONROVIA — The civil war in Liberia is about hatred: personal hatred based on political rivalry, brutally used to turn tribe against tribe. Charles Taylor, head of the rebel National Patriotic ...

Herman Cohen was U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs from 1989-1993. In this interview, conducted by filmmaker Nancee Oku Bright in February 2000, Cohen discusses the long-term ...

_ 1847: Country gains independence; draws up U.S.-type constitution. backbone of the economy. _ 1943: William Tubman is elected president; promotes foreign investment and local participation in ...

In the second and final installment of a Tell Me More conversation with Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the head-of-state discusses her newly released memoir, This Child Will Be Great. In the ...

MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Prince Johnson, the Liberian former warlord and senator whose brutal tactics shocked the world, has died at the age of 72, authorities said Nov. 28. Johnson, who infamously ...