Full Coverage: Liberia

23.11.2010 Liberia's agreement with two Caribbean-based ‘vulture funds’ over a debt dating back to the 1970s is proof of the importance of the UK’s landmark vultures law, says the Jubilee Debt Campaign.
+ Debt Vultures Shot for Chanukah

04.08.2010 The role of natural resources in funding conflict will be highlighted by the testimony of supermodel Naomi Campbell at the trial of former warlord and president of Liberia, Charles Taylor, in the Hague on 5 August, said a natural resources campaign group.

30.06.2010 Campaigners welcome debt cancellation to the world's most indebted country and call on the international community to repay their debt to Liberia.
+ Liberian debt relief welcome but better financial controls needed to prevent corruption

11.06.2010 Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has established a committee to investigate the proposed carbon credit deal between the country’s Forest Development Authority and UK-based Carbon Harvesting Corporation.

22.04.2010 A Dutch Court of Appeal ruling that cleared businessman Guus Kouwenhoven of charges of involvement in illegal arms deals and war crimes during the Liberian civil war is to be re-examined.

15.01.2010 Proposed changes to Liberian forest laws would open way for devastating logging and slash government revenues, warns a group that campaigns against natural resource-related conflict and corruption.

26.11.2009 Liberia has been ordered in the High Court in London to pay $20 million to two "vulture funds", for a debt dating back to the 1970s.

25.11.2009 Liberia will be sued in the High Court in London on Thursday by two "vulture funds" seeking to make large profits on a debt dating back to the 1970s.

18.11.2009 A group of NGOs has lodged a legal complaint claiming that one of the world's leading timber wholesalers bought timber from Liberian companies that provided support to Charles Taylor's brutal regime.

28.08.2009 The credibility of Liberia’s forestry reform programme - one of the most comprehensive ever undertaken in the tropics - has been brought to the point of collapse, claims an international environmental lobby group.

06.08.2009 Photographer Tim Hetherington’s exploration of Liberia between 2003 and 2007 brings an extraordinary range of characters to life: warlords and presidents, environmental activists and traditional
hunters, political hustlers and democratic visionaries.

13.07.2009 A new transparency law in Liberia covering natural resource industries sets an impressive benchmark for global efforts to fight the natural resource curse and should be emulated by other countries, says an international which campaigns to prevent natural resourced-related conflict and corruption.

23.01.2009 Hordes of caterpillars have appeared in northern Liberia, destroying crops and vegetation, sending villagers fleeing from their homes, and raising the spectre of a food, health and environmental emergency in West Africa, claims the UN.

11.12.2008 Liberia’s largest-ever cultural festival will take place over three days in the capital Monrovia from 11 December, featuring performers from across Liberia and surrounding countries and expecting to attract over 30,000 people.

17.09.2008 Corruption is a serious threat in humanitarian assistance, Sarah Bailey of Britain’s Overseas Development Institute (ODI) told a meeting in London.

29.02.2008 Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and analyst Steven Radelet look at the growth of democracy and economic activity in sub-Saharan Africa -- particularly the case of Liberia -- and explain how progress can be sustained and consolidated.

01.11.2007 Following in the footsteps of the governments of China, Germany, Nigeria, and the United States, the World Bank finalized its cancellation of Liberia's debt this Tuesday.
From: The News (Liberia)

17.10.2007 After a 14-year civil war was brought to a halt by UN peacekeepers, Liberians elected Africa's first female head of state. Under President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf the country is slowly but surely pushing forwards in terms of economic growth, democracy, and education, writes Steve Radelet from Liberia.

15.10.2007 The need for the Liberian government to provide jobs, education, and rehabilitation, while fighting widespread corruption, is more important than ever now that the civil war has ended, says Liberian journalist Cholo Brooks.

10.10.2007 Suah, a young Liberian woman who lost an eye at the age of two, was denied entrance to nursing school because of her disability. But thanks to a floating clinic complete with ophthalmologists, Suah received a prosthetic eye and was able to get a job teaching others about HIV/AIDS.
From: Mercy Ships