May 31

• Liberia: Energy, Regional Integration Will Fuel Growth - Finance Minister [interview]

  Amara Konneh has been the chief coordinator of Liberia's development strategy since his appointment as Planning and Economic Affairs Minister in 2008, a role he continued after... Read more »

May 28

• Liberia: From Stabilization to Transformation - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf [interview]

  A decade after the worst fighting of its long conflict, which killed an estimated 200,000 of a pre-war population of 2.8 million and forcibly displaced a majority - as many as 1.8... Read more »

April 25

• Africa: Malaria in Liberia - 'The Struggle Continues' [staff blog]

  I woke up feeling the headache and chills, and made a couple of trips to the bathroom to ease the nausea. The experience was all too familiar; I was having another bout of malaria,... Read more »

February 21

• Africa: Closing the Gap - Meet Aims to End Extreme Poverty

  When 17-year-old Sona Traore represented the Child Protection Network of Liberia at a civil society event organized in conjunction with a three-day United Nations meeting in this... Read more »

February 15

• Africa: Six Nations Bid to Host 2019 Afcon

  A total of six countries are bidding to the host the 2019 African Nations Cup finals but the Confederation of African Football are refusing to name them. Read more »

December 06, 2012

• Africa: Twelve Countries Rank in Top 75 on Anti-Corruption Index

  Twelve African countries are ranked among the 75 least corrupt nations in the world, according to the 2012 index published Wednesday by Transparency International. Read more »

November 19, 2012

• 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, 2012

• 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, 2012

• 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, 2012

• 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, 2012

• 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, 2012

• 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, 2012

• 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, 2012

• 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 »

February 29, 2012

• 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 03, 2012

• 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, 2012

• 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, 2012

• 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 08, 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 07, 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 05, 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 »