November 19

• Liberia: Tapping Official and Grassroots Efforts On Water

  In July 1990, as then-rebel leader Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia advanced on Monrovia, Taylor's guerrilla fighters attacked the White Plains water treatment... Read more »

• Liberia: Pipe Dreams - Waiting for Water in Monrovia

  "The hanging latrines" of West Point are not one of Liberia's most celebrated beauty spots. But this modest collection of elevated toilets, erected on the banks of the Mesurado... Read more »

June 22

• Liberia: Bold Plans for Hard Problems in Second Term - Johnson Sirleaf [interview]

  In the early months of her second five-year term, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says the post-conflict nation has made substantial progress but still faces multiple,... Read more »

June 18

• Liberia: Sirleaf Needs to Use Powers to the Fullest [guest column]

  Liberia has come a long way from the bloody civil wars that raged from 1989 until former president Charles Taylor left office in 2003. Read more »

May 30

• Sierra Leone: Taylor to Spend Rest of His Life in Prison

  The Special Court for Sierra Leone has sentenced former Liberian president Charles Taylor to 50 years' imprisonment for aiding and abetting war crimes in Sierra Leone. Read more »

May 29

• Africa: Presidents Commit to Nurturing Africa's 'Natural Capital'

  Until Africa's forests are valued for the oxygen they produce for the world's ecosystems, they will be worth more when they are dead than alive, said Liberian president Ellen... Read more »

April 29

• Africa: Fugitives Take Note - Justice Can Be Done [guest column]

  Liberia's "big man" surely thought he'd enjoy a comfortable retirement when he left power back in 2003. But on April 26 the Special Court for Sierra Leone convicted Charles Taylor... Read more »

April 26

• Liberia: The Crimes of Charles Ghankay Taylor [document]

  The special tribunal which tried the former Liberian president found him guilty of aiding and abetting crimes including acts of terrorism, murder, rape, sexual slavery,... Read more »

• Liberia: Taylor Guilty of Crimes Against Humanity

  Former Liberian president Charles Taylor has become the first African leader to be found guilty of war crimes by an international court. Read more »

March 15

• Africa: African Democracies 'Represent the Future,' Says U.S. Policymaker [interview]

  Promoting democracy in Africa has been a policy focus for successive U.S. administrations in the post-Cold War era. Since President Barack Obama took office in 2009, the American... Read more »

March 1

• Liberia: The Plantation Blues

  Fiercely contested during different stages of Liberia's civil war, the western region of Grand Cape Mount County now plays host to a very different kind of confrontation. Read more »

February 3

• Liberia: No Time for Complacency in HIV Fight

  Smartly seated behind his computer, crunching out numbers and making calls to colleagues, Anthony*, a 38-year-old father of three, is amongst those looking to check the spread of... Read more »

January 27

• Liberia: The Cocoa Comeback

  "That is still a tall order," Michael Titoe says with a chuckle as he contemplates Liberia launching its own brand name chocolate. A fellow of the World Cocoa Foundation and... Read more »

January 16

• Liberia: Monrovia Inauguration Marks Political Detente

  Flags are hoisted at street corners along Tubman Boulevard and past the Capital Building, the seat of the National Legislature, where President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is... Read more »

November 13, 2011

• Africa: Stop Natural Resource Plunder - A Conversation with Paul Collier [interview]

  Oxford economist Paul Collier's latest book, The Plundered Planet (Oxford University Press), is a call to action. It deplores the extraction of Africa's natural resources to... Read more »

November 8, 2011

• Liberia: Run-off Vote Off to Peaceful Start

  Voting in Liberia's presidential run-off election began peacefully on Tuesday, despite clashes the day before between the police and supporters of the opposition Congress for... Read more »

November 7, 2011

• Liberia: Clashes in Monrovia a Day Before Run-Off

  Clashes broke out in Monrovia Monday afternoon between protesters and police in riot gear at the headquarters of the opposition Congress for Democratic Change (CDC). Read more »

November 5, 2011

• Liberia: Sirleaf Says Run-Off Can 'Nuture' Peace; Ecowas Calls for Opposition to Participate

  President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, in a nationally broadcast address earlier today, called upon Liberians to 'nurture' the peace they are experiencing after two decades of conflict... Read more »

October 20, 2011

• Liberia: Talk of Taylor's Return Sparks Sharp Responses From U.S. Congressmen

  Two influential members of the U.S. Congress have warned that a return to Liberia by former president Charles Taylor would have far-reaching consequences and seriously undermine... Read more »

October 18, 2011

• Liberia: Open Statement to the Liberian People from Ambassador M. Nathaniel Barnes [document]

  Following is a statement sent to AllAfrica by Nathaniel Barnes, leader of the Liberian Destiny Party and presidential candidate in the 2005 election. Barnes, who served... Read more »

October 4, 2011

• Liberia: Collecting Stories to Heal a Nation

  When journalist Agnes Fallah Kamara-Umunna returned to her native Liberia in 2003, she found a country that was a shell of its former self. As the nation sought to rebuild,... Read more »

September 30, 2011

• Liberia: Nation Ships First Iron-Ore After Two Decades

  A colorful ceremony commencing Liberia's first shipment of iron ore since of the end of the country's civil war took place on Tuesday in the southeastern port city of Buchanan. The... Read more »

September 22, 2011

• Liberia: Prisons Report Upsets Assistant Minister

  The Liberian government has rejected criticism of conditions in its prisons made by an international human rights group. Read more »

September 1, 2011

• Liberia: Not Out of the Woods Yet [guest column]

  Talk to any number of Liberians today about President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and you will get different opinions, many of which contrast with her glowing international profile. Read more »

August 29, 2011

• Liberia: Racing to Make Up for Lost Time - Nation's First Marathon [guest blog]

  Less than a decade ago, Liberians were running for their lives.  Monrovia was a war zone. Armed rebel groups vied for power against the government of President Charles Taylor,... Read more »