Background Liberia, the first independent African Republic (1847), played a crucial role in the continent’s decolonization process. Despite its historical significance, the country remains one of the ...

Workers at Firestone's rubber farm in Liberia say that extracting natural rubber comes with a high human cost.

More than a century later, on April 14, 1979, the rice riot occurred, just when the country's economy was growing at an astronomical level from an annual rate of about two percent in 1961 to its ...

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 ...

Environment Canada issued extreme cold warnings for much of the Prairies and parts of Ontario and Quebec on Saturday morning as arctic air poured south. The national weather agency said the cold ...

Thousands of people 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, and who died without ...

A Liberian national and Maryland resident convicted in connection to a multimillion-dollar email scheme is wanted by the U.S. Marshals Service. Sheikh Kante, 41, is wanted for a supervised release ...

Liberia's quest to transform its critical rail infrastructure is gaining momentum as a U.S.-backed consortium led by TSC Global and Railroad Development Corporation (RDC) has reaffirmed its ...

In September 1997, amid Liberia's civil war turmoil, Martha and her husband, John, and their three children sought refuge in the United States. Liberia, a West African nation bordered by Sierra Le ...

Bishop Brown called on President Boakai to ensure a more functional Liberia under his administration. MONROVIA — The former President of the Liberia Council of Churches (LCC), Bishop Kortu Brown, has ...