Liberia’s Senate on Tuesday endorsed a joint resolution calling for the prosecution of individuals responsible for the more than a decade-long civil war and looting of the country’s resources from ...
My father, “Papa” as I called him, was killed along with three of my youngest siblings – all males – along with two uncles and their families, family friends and neighbours I had known all my life in ...
The 1990s and early 2000s were a bloody time in Africa. Civil wars raged in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Hollywood focused attention on the war’s human toll in films such as Blood Diamond and Beasts of ...
Against the backdrop of African conflict, Liberia’s two turn-of-the-century wars were fierce, replete with forced impressment of child soldiers, torture, rape, and summary executions. The wars also ...
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — President Joseph Boakai on Thursday signed an executive order to create a long-awaited war crimes court to deliver justice to the victims of Liberia’s two civil wars, ...
(Monrovia) – Liberian President Joseph Boakai should follow through on his commitment to justice and human rights by renewing an executive order key to establishing a war crimes court to address ...
Musue Haddad looks at Saa Charles N'Tow work and how the author reflects not just the Liberian conflicts and war but wars of all ages; wars before the Napoleon, the American civil war, Yugoslavia, the ...
When George S. Boley lived and worked in Stark County almost a half century ago he wanted to become president of his native country, Liberia. As he explained it, the goal of the college graduate – he ...