Hundreds gathered on Friday in rural Liberia for the state funeral of authoritarian former leader Samuel Doe decades after ...

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Leymah Gbowee has shared critical assessments of the regimes of immediate past President George Weah, and the current administration of Joseph Nyuma Boakai, noting that ...

Thousands gathered in northern Liberia on Saturday for the funeral of warlord-turned-politician Prince Johnson, a notorious face of the country's brutal civil wars who died without facing trial.

Prince Yormie Johnson was a key figure in Liberia's two civil wars between 1989 and 2003, which claimed around 250,000 lives and resulted in massacres, mutilation, rape and the widespread use of ...

Liberia’s Prince Y. Johnson, who rose to prominence first as a warlord and then politician, was implicated in serious abuses during the country’s two civil wars between 1989 and 2003.His death ...

Prince Johnson, a Liberian warlord ... In May, Liberia’s president, Joseph Boakai, approved the creation of a special war crimes court, which has not yet heard its first case. “I am not sad ...

Prince Johnson, a Liberian warlord ... Joseph Boakai, approved the creation of a special war crimes court, which has not yet heard its first case. “I am not sad over [Mr. Johnson’s] ...

Prince Johnson in 2008. He was accused of committing atrocities in Liberia’s civil wars, but he was never prosecuted. ... Joseph Boakai, established a war crimes court.

MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Prince Johnson, the Liberian former warlord and senator whose brutal tactics shocked the world, has died at the age of 72, authorities said Nov. 28. Johnson, who ...

Earlier this year, President Joseph Boakai signed an executive order to create a long-awaited war crimes court to deliver justice to the civil wars' victims, but the court hasn't begun operating.

Executive Mansion, Monrovia - President Joseph Nyuma Boakai, Sr., visited the family of the late Senator Prince Y. Johnson to offer his sympathies and comfort during their time of grief.. President ...