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

It portrays the West African sellers as ignorant and unsophisticated ... dropped precipitously after the start of the Civil War, although Liberia continued to accept captives rescued from illegal ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

"Lewis Brown is no stranger to the civil war in Liberia," said T. Dempster Brown, Chairman of Liberia’s Independent Human Rights Commission, joining a growing chorus of critics. T. Dempster ...

A high-level delegation from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS ... in a country still healing from the wounds of civil war," said the religious leaders.

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