Celebrations marking 50 years of the Economic Community of West African States – known as Ecowas – began in Ghana this week, ...

Despite two decades of relative peace, the country has the smallest Army of anywhere in Africa, with just 1,500 soldiers ...

Liberia has played and continues to play a significant role in shaping and redefining modern global geopolitics and ...

The United States wants the Economic Community of West African States to take the lead in any mission to end 14 years of almost non-stop war in Liberia. Washington has said it might send a small ...

Ecowas Deliberates Exit of Sahel States From Regional BlocHeads of state from West Africa's regional bloc ECOWAS are meeting in the Ghanaian capital of Accra to deliberate on the decision by three of ...

Once again, Liberia finds itself mired in self-inflicted ... Abdel-Fatau Musah--men who have brokered peace in nations riven by civil war and unrest--were disrespected over the failure to refer ...

In December 2011, Leymah Gbowee was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her role in helping to end the devastating civil war in Liberia ... from the US and other West African nations, the former ...

Once the largest country in Africa, Sudan was divided into two distinct regions: the predominantly Arab-Muslim north and the ...

They demand the immediate suspension of all U.S. financial aid to the West African nation until democratic ... actions against Liberians fleeing civil war. U.S. Government's Response The U.S ...

The country's constitution and flag-which look similar to the Red, White, and Blue but with only one star-were heavily ...

Pelham’s ancestors first settled in this region of West Africa in the 1840s ... About 5,000 U.S. troops were stationed in Liberia during World War II. After the war, Liberia’s rubber industry ...

Benson had emigrated with his family to the West African colony at the age of 6. By the outbreak of the Civil War, in April 1861, he was one of the largest coffee farmers in Liberia—and he hoped ...