Liberia News

LIBERIA: "The new war is rape" MONROVIA, 19 November 2009 - In Liberia rape survivors are increasingly speaking up and seeking help as awareness of rights increases, but social taboos persist and seeking justice does not always mean that justice is served.

There was once upon a time in Liberia's dark past when it was fashionable to silence the press by rounding up reporters and editors and incarcerating them for months without charge.

Water and sanitation services in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, are getting worse as a growing urban population tries to squeeze more out of already skeletal services.

The chairman of Liberiaa s National Elections Commission , James Fromayan says partisans of football legend George Weah's Congress for Democratic Change party have threatened to burn down his house and eliminate him in the process.

Rev. Francis Miller, left, and Isaac Monah. Francis Miller, pastor of Noble Road Presbyterian Church in Cleveland Heights, is traveling to Liberia to help build a school in a rural outpost of West Africa.

Liberia was founded in 1847 by former U.S. slaves shipped back to Africa by the American Colonization Society.

Liberia's National Elections Commission said it will announce the final results of a highly contested senatorial by-election this Saturday.

During four months of testimony, Charles Taylor, the former leader of Liberia, denied committing war crimes.

Therea s a lot of anticipation in Liberiaa s capital, Monrovia where a by-election to fill a vacant senate seat is taking place Tuesday.

Tuesday, 3 November 2009, 3:15 pm Press Release: United Nations Police officers serving with the United Nations peacekeeping force in Liberia have helped foil an attempted mass jail break this weekend from a prison in the West African nation's capital, Monrovia.

An International Monetary Fund mission led by Mr. Christopher Lane visited Liberia October 15-28 to conduct discussions for the third review under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility arrangement that was approved in March 2008 .

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right speaks as Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in Washington, DC Since its independence more than 160 years ago, Liberia has often been said to have a special relationship with the United States.

Liberian police have reportedly apprehended two individuals for their alleged involvement in the murder of the chairman of the countrya s Public Procurement Concession Commission .

Liberian media are reporting that a government official has been shot and killed by a gang of men outside the African country's capital.

Gunmen have killed Liberia's official in charge of awarding contracts to exploit the nation's natural resources.

"The cassava we are eating today is from that small garden you see over there," said Hayford Quaye, a 50-year-old father of four.

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An investigation by the government in Liberia has concluded that the Firestone Rubber Plantation Company has polluted local water sources.

In honor of her October 29 birthday, we look at the life and career of longtime politician and economist-in-exile Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, who became the first elected female president in Africa when she won the 2006 general election in Liberia.

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has met with the Board of Directors of the National Port Authority to discuss issues affecting the Port.