On 7 September 1994, ECOWAS Chairman President Jerry Rawlings of Ghana convened a meeting of Liberia's warring factions at Akosombo. Attendees included the NPFL, both ULIMO factions, and the AFL, ...

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 ...

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 ...

BUDUBURAM, Ghana (Reuters) - Sitting on a tattered mattress amongst the rubble of his former home, Wendell Elijah Mallobe is one of 15,000 Liberian refugees left destitute after authorities in Ghana ...

MONROVIA, Liberia — 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, characterized ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Liberian senators have introduced two separate bills to establish a war crimes court and a specialised economic and corruption crimes court. This aligns with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s ...