July 10

• Liberia: Fight Against Fistula Intensifies

  The fight against fistula is gaining ground in Liberia, where doctors and nurses at 48 health clinics have been trained to treat the condition. Thanks to the UN population Fund... Read more »

July 04

• Liberia: Justice and Peace 10 Years On in Liberia

  In December 1989 Charles Taylor crossed into Liberia from Côte d'Ivoire with a small group of fighters, sparking two brutal civil wars which would leave over 200,000 dead and... Read more »

July 02

• Liberia: Lorpu Kah - Market Trader, Liberia

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• Liberia: John Tamba - District Schools Supervisor, Liberia

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June 25

• Liberia: Ivoirian Refugees Put Down Roots

  Though Côte d'Ivoire has officially been at peace for over two years, many of the nearly 60,000 refugees who remain in Liberia are settling in for the long haul, citing... Read more »

May 20

• Liberia: The Changing Face of Land Disputes

  The Liberia Land Commission, which was set up in 2009 to help settle land disputes between returning refugees and their neighbours, is making significant headway, say land experts,... Read more »

April 25

• Cote d'Ivoire: Calls for Côte d'Ivoire Government to Tackle Unrest in West

  After recent attacks in Côte d'Ivoire's volatile western region in which more than a dozen people were killed, the authorities announced new security measures, but observers... Read more »

December 06, 2012

• Liberia: Surviving Tough Times - A Teacher

  Lorpu John Tamba teaches mathematics at an elementary school in Paynesville, a Monrovia suburb. He supports four children and his wife with his salary and they live in a small... Read more »

• Liberia: Surviving Tough Times - A Single Mum

  Lorpu Kah is a single mother to three sons living in Harper, Maryland County, a suburb of the capital Monrovia. Read more »

December 07, 2012

• Liberia: Call for Tougher Drug Laws

  Liberia's Drugs Enforcement Agency (DEA) has been trying to crack down on local drug dealers since the civil war ended but there are significant challenges due to weak laws and... Read more »

December 06, 2012

• Liberia: John Tamba - 'We Often Borrow Money From Neighbors to Keep the House Running'

  Lorpu John Tamba teaches mathematics at an elementary school in Paynesville, a Monrovia suburb. He supports four children and his wife with his salary and they live in a small... Read more »

October 03, 2012

• Liberia: Ghana-Liberia - Limbo for Ex-Liberian Refugees

  Nathan Pajibo, like thousands of his fellow Liberians, has been living in Buduburam refugee camp near the Ghanaian capital Accra for over two decades after fleeing the civil war in... Read more »

August 23, 2012

• Liberia: Out-of-Court Justice

  "We don't get much sleep now because there are people calling night and day," says Jesco Davis, who represents the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission (JPC), a local NGO... Read more »

July 24, 2012

• Cote d'Ivoire: Liberian Refugees' Future Uncertain

  In July 2012 a cessation clause came into force, stripping the remaining Liberians of their refugee status as the UN declared that it has been six years since the conflict ended,... Read more »

July 19, 2012

• Cote d'Ivoire: Cote d'Ivoire-Liberia - 'There Is No Way I Could Go Back'

  Da Tatouwa, the name he chooses to go by, is a senior figure in the Ivorian refugee community in Zwedru, the capital of Grand Gedeh, which enjoys strong ties with the Krahn of... Read more »

June 27, 2012

• Liberia: Tracking Down Mercenaries

  More than a year after the end of the conflict in neighbouring Côte d'Ivoire, the Liberian government has pledged to deal once and for all with longstanding complaints of its... Read more »

June 13, 2012

• Cote d'Ivoire: Militia Attack Forces Hundreds to Flee

  Up to a dozen people jostle for space in small houses meant for families of four, but at least they have found refuge in Duékoué, a town near the Liberian border. Read more »

May 30, 2012

• West Africa: Charles Taylor's Legacy in Sierra Leone and Liberia

  The recent conviction of Charles Taylor in The Hague for aiding and abetting war crimes in Sierra Leone has been a potent reminder of the role of natural resources in fuelling... Read more »

April 26, 2012

• West Africa: Taylor Verdict - Relief in Sierra Leone, Mixed Feeling in Liberia

  Sierra Leoneans are relieved that former warlord and President of Liberia Charles Taylor has been convicted by the Special Court of Sierra Leone on 11 counts of war crimes and... Read more »

February 17, 2012

• Liberia: Land Grab or Development Opportunity?

  Hundreds of villagers and town residents of Liberia's Grand Cape Mount Country have attracted nationwide attention in their bid to recover what they say is land seized from them... Read more »

January 19, 2012

• Africa: Fighting for the Rights of Child Soldiers [analysis]

  At end-November 2011, Somalia and the Central African Republic became the latest countries to commit to end the use of child soldiers - a move seen as "encouraging" by the UN,... Read more »

September 23, 2011

• Cote d'Ivoire: Military Build-Up in West Following Attacks

  Peacekeepers with the UN Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI), French Licorne military forces, and the national army Forces Républicaines de Côte d'Ivoire (FRCI),... Read more »

September 06, 2011

• Cote d'Ivoire: Shoring Up Border Security

  With fear still rife among the Ivoirian refugees remaining in eastern Liberia, NGO the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), which is managing refugee camps in Grand Gedeh County, is... Read more »

August 05, 2011

• Liberia: Do Citizens Know What They're Voting For? [analysis]

  In two weeks Liberians will vote in a referendum to change four aspects of the constitution, following which they will vote in presidential and legislative elections in October or... Read more »

• Liberia: 'I Really Miss My Mother - And My Bicycle'

  When Ivoirian villages were attacked during the post-election violence, causing hundreds of thousands to flee, many children were separated from their parents. Read more »