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, ...

A Finnish court began hearing witness testimony in Liberia’s capital Monrovia on Tuesday, as part of a first-of-its-kind war-crimes trial in the country. The court is sitting in the West African state ...

TheHouse of Representatives (HoR) has opened what could become one of the country's most consequential electoral governance debates since the end of the civil war, summoning the National Elections ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MAGBURAKA, Sierra Leone -- One man walked across the border from Sierra Leone into Liberia to flee fighting and lack of food. The other went the opposite direction, to Sierra Leone from Liberia, for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Joseph Boakai, then Vice-President of Liberia, addresses the 64th session of the General Assembly at United Nations ...

FILE - Joseph Boakai, then Vice-President of Liberia, addresses the 64th session of the General Assembly at United Nations headquarters Friday, Sept. 25, 2009. Liberias President Joseph Boakai has ...