Liberia

• Vol 51 No 19
•  24th September 2010

Less debt, more deals

Buoyed by debt deals and new investors, Liberia’s economy is strengthening. It won debt relief of US$4.6 billion under the World Bank’s Heavily Indebted Poor Countries scheme on 29 June and a further $1.2 bn. debt write-off by the Paris Club in September....

• Vol 51 No 10
•  14th May 2010

A second term for Sirleaf

Old alliances and enmities are re-emerging as the leading candidates launch their campaigns for next year’s national elections

• Vol 51 No 10
•  14th May 2010

Beny’s railway coup

The colourful Israeli billionaire Beny Steinmetz has finalised two remarkable deals this year: he has sold 51% of his iron ore mining operations in Guinea to Brazil’s Vale for US$2.5 billion and he has just persuaded the Conakry government to export ore f...

• Vol 50 No 22
•  6th November 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
•  6th November 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 Health, J...

• Vol 50 No 15
•  24th July 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
•  24th July 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 after ...

• Vol 50 No 15
•  24th July 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 expo...

• Vol 50 No 14
•  10th July 2009

No reconciliation, little truth

• Vol 49 No 20
•  3rd October 2008

Graft never really went away

Revelations of grand corruption in mining and shipping contracts embarrass the government