January 27

• Liberia: Female Genital Mutilation, a Taboo for Journalists Too [interview]

  Mae Azango set out to tackle the taboo subject of female genital in her home country of Liberia. The journalist's coverage forced her and her young daughter into hiding for weeks,... Read more »

November 13, 2012

• Liberia: Sirleaf Will Not Fire Her Sons [interview]

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the president of Liberia, was in the Netherlands to receive an Honorary Doctorate Degree at Tilburg University on 9 November 2012. RNW's Africa Desk was on... Read more »

May 30, 2012

• Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor to Serve 50 Years

  Former Liberian President Charles Taylor has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for "some of the most heinous crimes recorded in human history" following a hearing at the Special... Read more »

May 04, 2012

• Africa: The Real Invisible Children - Female Child Soldiers

  The plight of child soldiers in Africa has grabbed the headlines in recent weeks, first with the 'Kony 2012' video from the Invisible Children pressure group, and this week with... Read more »

April 30, 2012

• Sierra Leone: The Taylor Verdict - Victory for Justice? [analysis]

  Right. Can we just step away from the euphoria for a little while? Charles Taylor has been declared 'guilty' for having aided and abetted murder, rape, the use of child soldiers,... Read more »

April 26, 2012

• Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor Found Guilty on War Crimes Charges

  In a tense courtroom in The Hague today, Charles Taylor became the first former president to be convicted by a modern international tribunal. He will be sentenced on 30 May. Read more »

April 25, 2012

• West Africa: Liberians On Edge As They Await Charles Taylor Verdict

  Judgment Day looms. Six years on, and former Liberian president Charles Taylor is about to learn his fate. What do his compatriots have to say? Read more »

• Sierra Leone: Taylor Trial Stirs up Cordoned-Off Past

  Charles Ghankay Taylor awaits the dubious honour of becoming the first former head of state to be judged before an international criminal tribunal. Read more »

March 19, 2012

• Liberia: Riding the Waves Along The Coast

  Once the scene of a brutal civil war, now a surfers' paradise. The West African country of Liberia is trying hard to shake off the past and show the world a different face. Read more »

January 22, 2012

• Liberia: Last Stop - West Point

  This is West Point, one of the worst slums in the Liberian capital Monrovia. The entrance is a small corridor. Come out at the other end and you are approached by two burly young... Read more »

January 19, 2012

• Liberia: Charles Taylor Worked for CIA - Report

  Liberia's Charles Taylor, the first African head of state to be prosecuted for war crimes by an international tribunal, used to work for the CIA, the Boston Globe newspaper... Read more »

January 16, 2012

• Liberia: Locals Weigh On Johnson-Sirleaf's Swearing-in

  The inauguration of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf for another six year term is yet another opportunity for us as Liberians to move forward,' says Watson Johnson, a businessman in... Read more »

• Liberia: Clinton Arrives in Liberia for Sirleaf Inauguration

  US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Liberia on Monday ahead of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's inauguration for a second six-year term in office. Read more »

• Liberia: Sirleaf to Be Sworn in Amid Lavish Ceremony

  Liberia's Nobel peace laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf will be sworn in Monday in a lavish $1.2 million ceremony after her disputed re-election in the nation's second post-war polls. Read more »

• Liberia: Sirleaf - Women's Icon With Nerves of Steel

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is a joint Nobel Peace Prize winner as a champion for women's rights, whose steely nerves have been tested at the helm of a deeply divided post-war Liberia. Read more »

January 15, 2012

• Liberia: Opposition Recognises President After Disputed Poll

  Liberia's main opposition party, the Congress for Democratic Change, has recognised Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as president after disputed polls, its leader announced Sunday. Read more »

December 24, 2011

• Liberia: Opposition Official 'Arrested'

  Police arrested a top official of Liberia's main opposition Congress for Democratic Change overnight as the capital was under curfew after rioting by unpaid government workers,... Read more »

• Liberia: Monrovia Under Curfew Over Violent Protests

  The Liberian government imposed a curfew on the capital Monrovia on Friday after a second day of protests by thousands of rampaging part-time workers over pay delays. Read more »

December 10, 2011

• Liberia: Three Women Receive Nobel Peace Prize

  Liberia's president, a fellow Liberian and a Yemeni activist received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo Saturday for showing how women facing war and oppression can shed the mantle of... Read more »

• Liberia: Sirleaf Eager to See Woman President in U.S.

  Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who is Africa's first democratically elected woman head of state, said Saturday she was eager to see a... Read more »

November 30, 2011

• Liberia: Nobel Peace Laureate Holds Peace Jamboree

  Liberian Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee on Wednesday held a peace jamboree as part of her efforts to reunite the nation after disputed polls earlier this month marred by... Read more »

November 28, 2011

• Liberia: Liberia Police Chief Fired After Pre-Poll Violence

  Liberia's police chief Marc Amblard has been fired after a police shooting at an opposition rally on the eve of elections earlier this month, the presidency said Monday. Read more »

November 21, 2011

• Liberia: Opposition Gathers for Funeral Rally

  Hundreds of Liberian opposition supporters gathered in Monrovia Monday for a funeral march to honour the victims of a police shooting that marred disputed elections earlier this... Read more »

November 16, 2011

• Liberia: Opposition to Hold Funeral Rally on Monday

  Liberia's main opposition party said it will hold a mass rally on Monday for the funerals of those shot dead by police on the eve of a disputed election. Read more »

November 15, 2011

• Liberia: Sirleaf Appoints Nun to Probe Poll Violence

  Liberia's Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has appointed a nun to probe a pre-poll shooting incident, her office said Tuesday, as final results were set to confirm the Nobel Peace Prize... Read more »