Liberia

Liberia

Population: 4.0 million
GDP: $900 million
Debt: $290% of GDP
Overview:

Delays to mining and agriculture projects, corruption concerns and the conclusions of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission threaten President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s bid for a second term in 2011 elections.

news from Liberia

Category: all

Found 58 articles.

Displaying 31-40 out of 58 results.

  • Vol 45 No 14
  • 09/07/2004

No peace without justice

Freetown's war crimes court slowly establishes a precedent

  • Vol 45 No 3
  • 04/02/2004

Silencing the guns

After the fund-raising conference in New York, the focus shifts to disarmament and political reconciliation

  • Vol 44 No 22
  • 07/11/2003

Taylor's shadow

There is a new government but no real peace and far too few peacekeepers

  • Vol 44 No 16
  • 08/08/2003

Winkling out Taylor

A post-war era may have begun to take shape in Accra as Taylor dug his heels in

  • Vol 44 No 16
  • 08/08/2003

See you in court?

The death in custody of Revolutionary United Front leader Foday Sankoh on 29 July is the latest blow to the United Nations-backed Special Court's efforts to bring those most responsible for the Sierra Leone conflict to justice. The court arrested him on 1...

  • Vol 44 No 16
  • 08/08/2003

Abandoned children

As Nigerian units redeploy to Liberia from United Nations' peacekeeping duties in Freetown, child protection agencies are warning that severe funding shortfalls for long-term rehabilitation of child soldiers mean that thousands of Sierra Leonean children ...

  • Vol 44 No 15
  • 25/07/2003

Fighting on

The indiscriminate shelling of civilian areas by the rebel Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD) in the latest upsurge of fighting has removed any lingering hope that they might offer a viable alternative to President Charles Ghankay Ta...

  • Vol 44 No 14
  • 11/07/2003

Meltdown in Monrovia

Sending peacekeepers into the capital without a political plan could cause yet more chaos and killing

  • Vol 44 No 13
  • 27/06/2003

Weird scenes inside the gold-mine

Taylor has nowhere to run but the West hasn't got a plan yet

  • Vol 44 No 13
  • 27/06/2003

How the Ghana talks stalled

General Abdulsalami Abubakar appeared to have won the trust of all sides at the peace talks in Ghana. The Nigerian former ruler was on the verge of getting an agreement on a comprehensive peace framework and had set an end-June deadline for proposals for ...

Displaying 31-40 out of 58 results.