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A notorious ex-warlord who is playing the role of kingmaker in Liberia's presidential runoff said he will give his support to incumbent President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, ensuring the Nobel Peace Prize winner will likely win another term.
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is turning 72 but she says she doesn't expect to slow down anytime soon.
The photos of George Weah's soccer past are rapidly disappearing from the walls of his seaside villa, replaced by mementos of academic achievement and pictures of the Liberian goal-scoring great with political figures.
The unlikeliest of activists — a rampaging elephant that locals claimed was supernaturally possessed — has aired rural Liberians' frustrations with the country's profitable timber industry.
Nigeria's former president is calling for fair elections in Guinea after recent political upheavals in the small West African country.
A family spokesman says that the wife of detained former Liberian President Charles Taylor has given birth to a baby girl.
One of Liberia's most infamous warlords drank beer as he ordered his men to cut off an ousted president's ears 20 years ago. Now a senator, Prince Johnson says he plans to run for the presidency himself even though a government commission wants him tried for crimes against humanity.
Nearly 1,000 former fighters have dropped out of Liberian universities because the cash-strapped government stopped paying their fees as promised, ex-fighters' representatives said, threatening a society trying to recover from a bloody civil war.
An American-owned rubber company is disputing claims by the Liberian government that the company's waste products are polluting creeks.
Liberia's president said Thursday she has not ruled out running for office again in 2011, despite campaign promises to only serve one term.
A new language class is providing an opportunity for Liberians to learn Mandarin as China expands its economic presence in the West African country.
The bones and skulls of hundreds of people killed 15 years ago near the small Liberian village of Kpolokpai were transported in wheelbarrows to a marked mass grave where they were buried during a formal ceremony Sunday.
Liberia's truth and reconciliation commission has recommended barring President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and 50 other high-profile figures from public office for three decades for supporting armed groups in the country's civil wars.
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf apologized to her nation Thursday for the role she once played in supporting the man who launched the country's 14-year civil war.
Swarms of crop-eating pests are laying more larvae in the West African country, experts said Tuesday, warning that the caterpillars also have been identified as a species capable of more damage than previously believed.
A caterpillar plague in Liberia is spreading, and has now affected 400,000 people in more than 100 villages in the West African nation, the U.N. said Wednesday.
Disputes over land ownership and property boundaries are threatening to undermine Liberia's fragile peace, the nation's reconciliation body and the European Union warned Monday.
A former Liberian warlord whose drugged fighters once appeared on camera holding up a human heart dodged questions Wednesday and refused to accept any wrongdoing during an appearance before a public commission.
One of Liberia's most infamous warlords admitted Tuesday that he had trained in Libya and helped topple the government of Burkina Faso before overthrowing Liberia's president.
At least eight people suffocated at an overcrowded stadium during a soccer match between Liberia and Gambia on Sunday, a doctor and an aid worker said.
Liberia banned all food exports Monday, saying profiteers have been taking advantage of its cheap rice prices to truck the grain — already in short supply in Liberia — to neighboring countries to sell at higher prices.
One of Liberia's most notorious rebel commanders, known as Gen. Butt Naked for charging into battle wearing only boots, has returned to confess his role in terrorizing the nation, saying he is responsible for 20,000 deaths.
Liberia's government is giving away specially programmed cell phones so citizens in the country impoverished by civil wars can report rapes and other violence as crime soars amid a shortage of police officers.
A former president of Liberia was arrested Friday for violating the conditions of his bail while on trial on charges of embezzling $1.3 million in government funds, the prosecutor said.
Visiting mass graves with hundreds of bodies, Liberian officials offered help to villagers who told stories of devastation from the nation's civil wars.
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