June 05, 2003
West Africa: 'If I Stand in the Way of Peace,' I'll Quit, Says Taylor
With reports circulating that Liberian President Charles Taylor had been indicted by a United Nations-backed tribunal, the 55-year old former warlord made an unexpected offer to… Read more »
June 04, 2003
West Africa: Taylor at Accra Peace Talks: "Honourable Exit or Extended Mandate?"
Liberian political leaders and activists are arriving here in the Ghanaian capital to take part in what could be the country's most important peace effort since the outbreak of war… Read more »
May 20, 2003
Liberia: Increased Pressure on Taylor as France Welcomes Opposition Leader
For the first time since Charles Taylor became president of Liberia six years ago, the French foreign ministry has held official consultations with the leader of Liberia's… Read more »
May 02, 2003
Liberia: Peace Force Essential for Liberian Democracy, Says Opposition Leader
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan called on the Security Council last week to seek "an early solution" to escalating fighting in Liberia, "whose deleterious effect is… Read more »
April 30, 2003
West Africa: Liberia's President Taylor Threatened With Prosecution By Sierra Leone Special Court
Threatening Liberian president Charles Taylor with prosecution for aiding Johnny Paul Koroma and Sam Bockarie, indicted fugitives from the Special Court for Sierra Leone, the… Read more »
March 09, 2003
West Africa: Ivory Coast Talks Make Progress in Ghana, Heavy Fighting Back Home
Cote dIvoires feuding factions took one step forward at crisis talks in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, and agreed on Saturday to the formation of a national unity government of… Read more »
March 05, 2003
West Africa: What Went Wrong with Ivory Coast's Peace Process - by Senegal's Foreign Minister
Attempts to resolve the civil war in Cote d'Ivoire show scant progress. Three rebel factions still hold Ivory Coast's north, and parts of the west. Over a thousand people have… Read more »
February 17, 2003
Liberia: Tortured Journalist Hassan Bility Describes Six Months in Jail
Liberian journalist Hassan Bility was arrested with colleagues in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, in June 2002 and held incommunicado for almost six months as what the government… Read more »
February 07, 2003
Liberia: Fighting Near the Liberian Capital Drives Thousands Into Bush
Fighting in recent days within striking distance of Liberia's capital, Monrovia, has led to panic among civilians and major disruption with thousands fleeing the area west of the… Read more »
January 21, 2003
Liberia: Exiled Politician Brumskine Returns Home to Prepare for Elections
Former president pro-tem of the Liberian Senate, Cllr. Charles W. Brumskine returned to his country last week after many years in exile in the United States. He fled Liberia in… Read more »
January 11, 2003
Liberia: Religious Leaders Released but Repression Intensifies
Only two days after they were charged with treason, two Liberian religious leaders have been released from detention by the government of President Charles Taylor. The authorities… Read more »
December 10, 2002
West Africa: Liberia's President Taylor is Destabilising Region, Say Opposition Leaders
The government of Liberia is at "the epicenter of a system of conflict," says Amos Sawyer, formerly president in the interim government of Liberia, 1990-1994. He says the West… Read more »
November 05, 2002
Liberia: Embargo on Taylor Must Continue, Says UN Panel
A UN panel of experts established to probe the supply of weapons that fuels the Liberian conflict has just submitted its latest report to the UN Security Council in New York. Read more »
October 09, 2002
Liberia: Liberia's Story Needs Telling, Says Film Producer
Part of what her television film "Liberia -- America's Stepchild" portrays, says producer Nancee Oku Bright, is that Liberia's "usefulness" to the United States ended, in the eyes… Read more »
August 25, 2002
Liberia: Key Opposition Figures Stay Away From Monrovia Reconciliation Meeting
As the Liberian government opened its National Reconciliation Conference in Monrovia, Saturday, with most key members of the opposition absent, the organizers were insistent that… Read more »
July 17, 2002
West Africa: Ecowas Head Predicts Liberian Gov't-Rebel Talks, Praises AU
Dr Mohamed ibn Chambas is the executive secretary of the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas). He attended the recent inaugural summit of the African Union (AU) in… Read more »
July 15, 2002
West Africa: Attempts to Bring Peace to Liberia - Can They Succeed?
Following Sierra Leone's successful - and peaceful - elections in May, there's increased optimism that life really will return to normal. Yet Sierra Leone is not an island. Even if… Read more »
July 03, 2002
Liberia: Detained Journalist In Military Hands, Says Minister
Civilian authorities in Monrovia continue to defy court orders to produce journalist Hassan Bility who was arrested last week and accused of operating a Lurd (Liberians United for… Read more »
June 30, 2002
Liberia: Liberia's Charles Taylor Will Talk to Rebels Says Peace Broker
The top official in charge of security for West African states, Cheikh Oumar Diarra, says Liberian President Charles Taylor is ready, under certain "conditions", to talk to members… Read more »
May 24, 2002
West Africa: Cycle of Conflict in Mano River Threatens S.Leone Peace - Analyst
In the Mano River region of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, armed insurgency has moved from country to country for years, one country's conflict feeding on another's. Most… Read more »
May 01, 2002
Liberia: Detained Lawyer Released in Monrovia
Detained Liberian lawyer Tiawan Gongloe, who was last week beaten in detention and had to be hospitalised, has been released into the custody of one of Liberia's prominent… Read more »
April 30, 2002
Liberia: President Taylor Says Investigation of Gongloe Will Continue
Liberia's President Charles Taylor has referred to the case of human rights lawyer Tiawan Gongloe who was beaten and injured while in detention, and warned that under the state of… Read more »
April 28, 2002
Liberia: Security Intensified at Lawyers Bedside
Liberian officials on Sunday intensified security at the hospital where detained human rights lawyer, Mr. Taiwan Saye Gongloe, is being treated for injuries sustained during a… Read more »
April 26, 2002
Liberia: Monrovia Bans Gatherings on Eve of Opposition Leaders Return
A ban on all public gatherings issued by Liberias minister of justice late Friday has put into question a scheduled return this weekend by opposition leader Ellen Johnson Sirleaf… Read more »
Liberia: Tortured Human Rights Lawyer Under Police Guard in Hospital
Liberian human rights lawyer Tiawan Saye Gongloe, who was beaten this week in detention by state security officers in Monrovia, by his own account, has told allAfrica.com that his… Read more »