The Liberian people demand and deserve leadership that is focused, visionary, and selfless. We do not need leaders who waste their time--and ours--on meaningless gestures and petty rivalries.

I began coming back here in 1990 to meet with Amos Sawyer [president of Interim Government of National Unity, 1990], to meet with Charles Taylor [rebel leader and Liberia's current president], to ...

Foday N. Massaquoi, the recently elected Chairman of the Congress for Democratic Change - Council of Patriots (CDC-COP), has called for the utilization of democratic and legal means to pressure the ...

But it's clear to Kpakio that there is ongoing impunity for Liberia's former military leaders. "Seeing [Johnson] not being punished but being celebrated and remembered as a hero is painful to all ...

Liberia, often remembered for its turbulent past, holds the promise of a prosperous future. It's time for Liberia to reclaim its narrative and reintroduce itself to the world as the Jewel of Africa-- ...

Given the background of a brutal seven-year civil war, Liberia's transition process was slow and shaky. Three years after a U.N.-supervised election brought former faction leader Charles Taylor to ...

That city is the capital of the West African nation of Liberia, which has been left, after 10 years of brutal civil war, with a barely functioning government. Yet a third of the world's shipping ...