Liberia: Pray the Devil Back to Hell — the Best Documentary Feature at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival — is the extraordinary story of a small band of Liberian women who came together in the midst of a bloody civil war, took on the violent warlords and corrupt Charles Taylor regime, and won a long-awaited [...]

A jury in Miami found Charles McArthur Emmanuel, or Chuckie Taylor, guilty on charges of torture, firearms violations and conspiracy. The decision brought an end to a five-week trial that included testimony from several Liberian victims who were abused by an anti-terrorist unit led by Taylor.

Female ex-combatants are twice as likely as men to take up weapons again to escape poverty, based on a recent US-funded survey of more than 1,000 former fighters in Liberia. Almost 30 percent of the people surveyed said they were willing to take up arms again to earn a living wage, family and community acceptance, [...]

Buchanan Renewables, B.V., has announced that its Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) has approved a loan of up to US $112-million to Buchanan’s subsidiary in Liberia, Buchanan Renewables (Monrovia) Power, Inc. The funding, according to the Vice President of OPIC, Mr. Jim Polan, is intended to build a 50-megawatt independent [...]

Africa researcher Emira Woods of Washington’s Institute for Policy Studies has been following the Liberian leader’s efforts to raise conditions for African rulers to achieve power and govern their people through democratic means. She points out that Mrs. Sirleaf is one of a growing number of African voices to speak out for the people of [...]

Imagine working with one of the several NGOs in Africa.
If what you see is an existence devoid of the little goodies of life, but full of anguish, dangerous encounters with wild animals and bandits, and popping dozens of preventive pills weekly.
Then you are way off mark! Expats can afford to eat sushis cooked [...]

During Liberia’s civil war, the national army and rebel factions were guilty of gross human-rights abuses. Civilians were killed, villages looted and torched. Many civilians said they had nowhere to turn for safety. Now, those helping to restore security in Liberia and rebuild its armed forces say they are building an army [...]

A second Indian all-female contingent has been deployed in Liberia for a few months now, showing that women can become the norm for peacekeeping operations. They are also inspiring Liberian women to become part of the country’s security reconstruction.
“First of all, when we landed here, the first assignment we got was security of the [...]

Nothings is more uplifting reading about Liberia’s progress after some two decades of war and strife. The country is learning to pull itself up by the boot strings - and it’s doing a great job at it!
After 15 dark years, electricity is back in downtown Monrovia - Washington Post captures the feelings from the [...]

Before Liberia was torn apart by civil war, the AM Dogliotti medical school was funded by the government and turned out around 40 graduates a year. Now there are 195 students on the register, but last year only four students graduated as the average course length has jumped from five years to nine. And the [...]