Two of the three armed factions in Liberia said on Friday they had begun disarming their own fighters voluntarily, before the planned resumption of a UN-supervised disarmament, demobilisation and ...

The journey back to normal life was never going to be an easy one for the ex-combatants of Liberia's civil war. But, it could be argued that women fighters face ...

Analysis - Until recently, nothing much was known of Thomas Nimely Yaya, chairman of the second rebel group in the Liberian conflict, the Movement For Democracy in Liberia (MODEL).

In the early 2000s, Liberia was a byword for civil war, chaos and child soldier as conflict raged in the West African country. Beginning with a rebellion in 1989 led by American-educated warlord ...

Hundreds of Liberian government fighters, including many child soldiers, have scrambled to get on United Nations trucks heading to a disarmament centre, eager to start a new life and put years of ...

MONROVIA, Liberia — Nearly 1,000 former fighters have dropped out of Liberian universities because the cash-strapped government stopped paying their fees as promised, ex-fighters&#… ...