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Liberia, Civil War, Reconstruction, African Methodist Episcopal Church, equality, self-respect Judge orders White House to restore Associated Press’s access See the first new dire wolf cubs born ...
In December 2011, Leymah Gbowee was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her role in helping to end the devastating civil war in Liberia ... and the ascent of the first Aboriginal MP.
Until the first of those prosecutions, there had been little criminal accountability regarding actions in Liberia in the 1990s and 2000s, when two civil wars left an estimated 200,000 civilians dead.
Kennedy, and several photographs of old Liberian houses that closely resemble antebellum plantation manor houses, down to their tall-columned entryways. Pelham’s ancestors first settled in this ...
On Thursday, Mozambique will have the chance to take a further step toward their first ever World Cup appearance ... (especially considering the civil war ongoing in their country), while the ...
The Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace staged their first protest in a football field ... her role in helping to end the devastating civil war in Liberia. She had mobilised thousands of ...
Monrovia, the capital of Liberia ... becoming Africa’s first republic. However, the late 20th century saw the country descend into two brutal civil wars, from 1989 to 1997 and 1999 to 2003.
She attended school with Liberian refugees from the first Liberian Civil War. “When the war in Sierra Leone got started, it felt pretty distant, because it was mostly in the provinces, but the stories ...
What happened on April 13, 1975, would change the course of Lebanon. An attack on a bus in Beirut plunged the country into 15 ...
A new release out this spring from Liberian-American singer-songwriter Mon Rovia focuses on his journey to finding empathy from grief, and making peace with the fact that he escaped Liberia’s civil ...
The First South Carolina Volunteers, the first regiment of Black soldiers to fight for the Union in the Civil War, was formed in May 1862 in Beaufort. Courtesy Mitchell first heard the story at a ...
the country's first Director General of the Liberia Civil Aviation Authority (LCAA), has raised serious concerns over what he describes as "complacency and inexperience" at the heart of the nation ...