20110924
Reuters
DAKAR (Reuters) - Liberia's top court may have to do some fancy footwork to keep next month's presidential elections on course, and allow President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, and some other leading candidates, to run.

20110727
Reuters
VOINJAMA, Liberia (Reuters) - Liberia's Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf pledged on Tuesday to step up the fight against unemployment in her West African nation if re-elected later this year, saying in an interview she was confident of securing a second term.

20110718
Reuters
MONROVIA (Reuters) - West African leaders urged the United Nations and regional grouping ECOWAS on Sunday to step up monitoring of the Liberia-Ivory Coast border after signs mercenaries have been operating there since the end of the Ivory Coast conflict in April.

20110713
Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal appeals court threw out a lawsuit accusing the Firestone tire company of illegally using child labor in Liberia, but found that U.S. law allows companies to be held liable for human rights abuses abroad.

20110509
reuters

Liberia signed a deal with the European Union on Monday promising to crack down on illegal logging on its territory, home to more than half of West Africa's rainforests, a group linked to the accord said.

20110328
IPS

Butuo, Liberia — This Butuo man only knows one phrase in French: Viens manger. Come eat.

20110120
allafrica
The political clouds are gathering by the day and signs are that Elections 2011 would be a dog-eat-dog affair not merely because aspirants are called to genuine service of the people but principally because elected positions in Government, at executive and legislative levels, are unusually lucrative and money-spinning.

20110101
WFP

ROME – The United Nations World Food Programme has airlifted emergency food assistance into Liberia to feed refugees fleeing the political crisis in neighbouring Cote d’Ivoire as part of a rapid scale up of humanitarian operations in response to the evolving humanitarian crisis.

20110101
reuters

BEO GARNAGLAY, Liberia (Reuters) - In a remote village in Liberia's Nimba Mountains, about 20 men armed with machetes prepare to walk through the forest into neighbouring Ivory Coast -- to fight for anyone willing to pay them.

20101211
africanews

Liberia is to carry out reform in its jury system with the aim of tackling corruption in the judiciary. Justice minister Christiana Tah said the move became necessary following complaints about judges who take bribes to decide cases.

20101206
Analyst

When President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf sent her entire cabinet on 'administrative leave' to allow for reflection and to start with new slate as the administration enters a new political track, the public greeted the news with mixed reactions.

20101025
africanews

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is not afraid of the merger of her two leading opponents in the 2005 presidential elections, press secretary Cyrus Badio has said.

20101017
reuters

Monrovia — A team from the Chevron Corporation has concluded a fact-finding mission in Liberia, following up its sealing of a three-year oil exploration deal with the government of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

20100924
africanews

Prince Johnson, a former notorious warlord of West Africa nation Liberia, wants to stand for the presidency of his country next year. Now an elected senator, Johnson said no rule bars him from standing since he is not the first warlord in the world to go for such top post.

20100920
allAfrica.com

Monrovia — Until recently, the emergency room at Liberia's main hospital was "a place you came to die," says Dr. Braden Hexom, who teaches emergency medicine at New York's Mount Sinai School of Medicine. With perhaps the world's highest rate of newborn mortality, Liberia had not a single pediatrician. The hospital had no means of administering treatment intravenously. There was no imaging equipment – not even a simple x-ray machine.

20100917
africanews

Liberia's government said the decision by a group of creditor nations to write off its debt will allow the country to write a "new Liberian story". The 19-nation Paris Club pardoned $1.2bn (£764m) worth of debt owed by the West African country.
liberian president

20100917
africanews

The chief lawyer of the former Liberian president Charles Taylor at the crimes trial is visiting South Africa, a defense team spokesperson said on Thursday.

20100906
CharlesTaylorTrial.org

As his cross-examination moved into a second week, Charles Taylor's 20th defense witness today disagreed with prosecutors that Mr. Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) rebel group had a Small Boys Unit (SBU) during Liberia's civil conflict.

20100906
reuters

MONROVIA (Reuters) - The United Nations must resist pressure to cut back its mission in Liberia too soon, or risk instability before elections next year, its top official in the country told Reuters.

20100903
Analyst

Notwithstanding the current infrastructurally cramped conditions of Roberts International Airport (RIA), Liberia in the days of old was the epic center of international air traffic in West Africa, with the likes of KLM, Pan Am, etc., plying daily schedules. But the golden days suddenly eclipsed; courtesy of long years of civil conflict which left the heretofore first class airport of RIA in total ruins and triggered the exodus of international aviation giants.