Full Coverage: Liberia

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

01.10.2007 Disabled youths -- victims of the Liberia's gruesome 14-year civil war -- play soccer at home and around the world, yet continue to sleep on the streets. The Pulitzer Center's Liberia project is examining child soldiers' reentry into society through blogs, photos, videos, and other reporting.

06.06.2007 UNITED NATIONS, Jun 5 (OneWorld) - Both the United Nations and some of the world's leading human rights organizations are welcoming the start of the trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor.

29.05.2007 Slavery isn’t dead, says Robtel Neajai Pailey: its modern-day variant is just found on a different kind of plantation.
From Red Pepper

24.04.2007 UNITED NATIONS, April 24 (OneWorld) - As the United Nations prepares itself to take further action on a proposal to adopt an arms control treaty, civil society groups are stepping up pressure on governments to take a firm stand.

25.02.2007 Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf recently travelled to Washington, DC. One year into her presidency, Sirleaf reflected on her government’s achievements, and the many challenges her country must still confront.

12.02.2007 How much of the goodwill showered to Liberia since the inauguration of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf will be translated into action for reconstruction, asks Abdoulaye W. Dukulé as a donors' meeting opens in Washington.

08.02.2007 "The Bush administration's repeated pledges of support for the reconstruction of Liberia must now translate into action," said a campaigner outside the U.S. Treasury Wednesday, calling for debt relief at next week's donors' conference.

08.12.2006 The U.S.-born son of former Liberian warlord Charles Taylor has been charged with torture in a U.S. court for his actions in that war-torn country.
From: Human Rights Watch