news

by country & category

Liberia

Liberia
Population: 4.3 mn.
GDP: 1.0 bn.
Debt: 2.0 bn.
Overview:

After fractious elections in November President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf risks alienating her Union Party loyalists by giving jobs to opposition politicians, especially the CDC's Winston Tubman, in an attempt at reconciliation. 

Liberia Country Report

 


news from Liberia

Category: all

Found 69 articles.

Displaying 41-50 out of 69 results.

  • Vol 45 No 21
  •  22nd October 2004

New model army

Africa Confidential has learned that California-based private military contractor DynCorp is about to be awarded a contract to restructure the Liberian national army. Industry sources say the company is still awaiting its funding.

  • Vol 45 No 14
  •  9th July 2004

No peace without justice

Freetown's war crimes court slowly establishes a precedent

  • Vol 45 No 3
  •  4th February 2004

Silencing the guns

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

  • Vol 44 No 22
  •  7th November 2003

Taylor's shadow

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

  • Vol 44 No 16
  •  8th August 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
  •  8th August 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
  •  8th August 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
  •  25th July 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
  •  11th July 2003

Meltdown in Monrovia

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

  • Vol 44 No 13
  •  27th June 2003

Weird scenes inside the gold-mine

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

Displaying 41-50 out of 69 results.