Liberia's civil wars, ... The first war started when politician and warlord Charles Taylor launched a rebellion to oust Doe, who was murdered in a gruesome execution filmed by his killers.

Monrovia, Liberia – Rufus Katee, 60, remembers Liberia’s civil wars well. It was July 1990 when the then-26-year-old ran to escape the fighting between armed groups and soldiers in the capital ...

Liberia’s President Joseph Boakai has signed a resolution to create a long-awaited war crimes court to deliver justice to the victims of the country’s two civil wars, characterized by the ...

The West African nation of Liberia goes to the polls on October 10 to decide whether to give football legend George Weah a second term as president.

I first saw it more than two decades ago in the market town of Danané, treacherously near the border with Liberia, where a civil war that began in 1989 still raged.

In the 1820s, the United States started colonising a part of West Africa to create a country that freed black slaves from the American South could call their own. From civil war to surfing: five ...