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- Vol 50 No 22
- 06/11/2009
A killing in Kakata
As the government struggles to stem corruption, the head of the Public Procurement and Concessions Commission is murdered
- Vol 50 No 22
- 06/11/2009
New faces in the justice system
Christiana Tah, Justice Minister: Formerly a Professor in the Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice Department at Montgomery College, Maryland, United States, Tah is a member of the State Bar. She has experience in Liberia's Ministries of Healt...
- Vol 50 No 15
- 24/07/2009
Charles Taylor gets his day in Court
Ex-President Charles Taylor's trial at the Special Court for Sierra Leone on 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity will reverberate across Africa, especially those countries such as Congo-Kinshasa, Uganda and Sudan, whose politicians and reb...
- Vol 50 No 15
- 24/07/2009
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - the sequel
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf looks set to seek a second six-year term in the 2011 elections. This is despite a recommendation from Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) barring her and several others from public office for 30 years af...
- Vol 50 No 15
- 24/07/2009
International justice and its pitfalls
The current array of international tribunals has its roots in the 1990s. With the Cold War over, a spate of atrocious wars broke out in areas that no longer fell under the control or influence of one or another superpower. The 1994 genocide in Rwanda ...
- Vol 50 No 14
- 10/07/2009
No reconciliation, little truth
- Vol 49 No 20
- 03/10/2008
Graft never really went away
Revelations of grand corruption in mining and shipping contracts embarrass the government
- Vol 49 No 20
- 03/10/2008
All my friends in New York
Madam President addresses the UN General Assembly
- Vol 49 No 7
- 28/03/2008
Nightmare on Broad Street
Liberia's Finance Minister Antoinette Sayeh faces a huge problem as she steers the country into qualifiying for the World Bank's and International Monetary Fund's debt reduction programme by the end of next year: some US$1.5 billion of commercial debt...
- Vol 48 No 16
- 03/08/2007
Rumours and plots
President Johnson-Sirleaf's enemies have come out in the open with a raft of allegations and threats of military action
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