After another warlord Charles Taylor, Liberia's future president who was later convicted of crimes against humanity, Johnson broke away and was forced into exile in Nigeria in 1992, where he ...

Prince Yormie Johnson, Liberian warlord-turned-politician, who became infamous for the 1990 footage of him sipping beer while the-then president was tortured nearby, has died at the age of 72.

For more than a decade, much of Africa has been moving forward. Economic growth is rising, poverty is falling and democratic governance is spreading. But the global financial crisis threatens to undo ...

B. Joshua. Johnson returned to Liberia in March 2004, following the resignation of Taylor as president and the installation of a transitional government. He stated his intention to return to ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Friday recounted a meeting with President Biden from early last year when the president appeared to forget he signed an executive order pausing the export of ...

Despite the fact that the past two post-war governments failed to establish a war and economic crimes court as key suspects ...

Johnson's supporters and government officials, including President Joseph Boakai, crowded the grounds of the Liberia Petroleum Refinery Company in Ganta city in Nimba. "Though opinion may differ on ...

Liberian armed forces carry a casket with the remains of former rebel leader and Nimba senator Prince Johnson during his funeral in Ganta, Liberia, on January 18, 2025.