Liberia and neighbouring Sierra Leone, where another bloody civil war ended in 2002, are poor, troubled countries with ropy democracies. Yet both are in much better shape than 20 years ago.

The appeals chamber of the Special Court for Sierra Leone kept the 65-year-old Taylor’s conviction on 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including terrorism, murder, rape and ...

How do you define peace in a country where children die because hospitals lack oxygen? How do you rank as peaceful a nation ruled by fear, ...

Eighteen years after civil war ended in Liberia, in a school located in a rural village that helps make rubber for Bridgestone, the revolution isn’t around political power. It’s about using ...

Civil war began in Sierra Leone in the early 1990s, when the RUF led by Foday Sankoh – and supported by President Taylor – began seizing control of areas containing diamond mines. The RUF – and other ...

The Sierra Leone Court successfully prosecuted a number of war criminals including former Liberian President Charles Taylor. The benefit of a hybrid court is two-fold.

U.S. Warns Liberia Again on Its Support for Sierra Leone ... The United States has repeated its warning that it will impose sanctions on Liberia unless it determines that the West African ...

Liberia has over the years made significant progress after conducting at least four credible presidential and legislative elections. Unlike the peaceful transition in Liberia, Sierra Leone has ...

Gibril Massaquoi of Sierra Leone attends a hearing of an international war crime case against him in which he is charged of crimes committed during the Liberian civil war between 1999 and 2003, in ...

Situated in coastal West Africa, Sierra Leone is Liberia’s neighbor to the west. While both countries enjoy vibrant cultural and ethnic distinctions, they share a common use of the English ...