Liberia

Liberia

• Liberia journalists protest with black front pages

  Newspapers in Liberia have printed black front pages after a government official was accused of threatening journalists. The director of the ... 

• Ivory Coast: Gbagbo fighters to return from Togo

  About 200 fighters loyal to former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo will be repatriated from Togo after two years of exile following their ... 

• Audit: Contracts awarded in Liberia violate law

  The Liberian government awarded about $8 billion in contracts to multinational companies without following its own laws, according to a draft of a new ... 

• Logging permits are being abused in Africa

  Logging permits designed to promote small businesses are being allocated by the hundreds to industrial logging companies in West and Central Africa ... 

• Liberia police: 3 dead, others missing in fire

  Liberian police say that at least three bodies have been retrieved and more than 10 people are feared trapped under the rubble of a building that was ... 

• Liberian president appoints new chief justice

  Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says Francis Korkpor will be the country's new chief justice. Korkpor, 61, will replace Johnny Lewis who ... 

• Former Liberian president Moses Blah dies

  Officials say that Moses Blah, the man who served as Liberia's president for two months after Charles Taylor stepped down, has died. He was in his ... 

• UN: Border violence halts Ivorian refugee return

  U.N. officials in Liberia say they've temporarily halted the repatriation of tens of thousands of refugees from Ivory Coast because of continued ... 

• Guinea honors 11 officers who died in plane crash

  The 11 Guinean officers who died in a plane crash in Liberia are being honored at a state funeral presided over by the West African country's ... 

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  Guineans killed in Liberia plane crash flown home

  Liberia's information minister says the 11 bodies of the Guineans killed after a military plane crashed in Liberia will be flown back to their ... 

• Plane with Guinean delegation crashes in Liberia

  Eleven bodies were pulled from the wreckage of a military plane that crashed in Liberia, with Guinea's army chief of staff and top military officers ... 

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  Liberia exposes finances with city billboard

  Liberia's people have a novel way of finding out how their government is spending their money. On a bustling street in the capital, people can look ... 

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  Charles Taylor appeals war crimes conviction

  Prosecutors urged judges Tuesday to reject former Liberian President Charles Taylor's appeal against his war crimes conviction and 50-year prison ... 

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  'Restrepo' director has sorrowful Sundance return

  Sebastian Junger wishes his latest Sundance Film Festival documentary never had to be made. It's been a bittersweet return for Junger at Sundance, ... 

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  Jailed Liberian ex-president wants his pension

  Charles Taylor may be locked up while appealing his 50-year prison sentence for war crimes, but the former Liberian president still wants his ... 

• Liberian children pay tribute to Conn. victims

  Twenty Liberian schoolchildren from a school sponsored by the Newtown Rotary Club in this West African nation on Friday gathered at the U.S. 

• Liberian schoolchildren send condolences to Conn.

  Schoolchildren in the West African nation of Liberia are sending their condolences to the victims of the Connecticut school shooting that left 20 ... 

• Border raids in Ivory Coast threaten security

  Cross-border raids into western Ivory Coast have become more violent and better organized, and could have profound effects on security in the region ...