Unconfirmed but reliable sources in Monrovia say 14 top security men loyal to President Charles Taylor have been secretly executed on charges of plotting to assassinate the president. The sources ...

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The very peculiar West African habit of rewarding criminals, mass murderers and assassins must have by now disabused our idealistic minds that in the absence of political consciousness by leader and ...

Reports of fighting in Sierra Leone between rebel forces of Corporal Foday Sankoh and government troops loyal to President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah continue to feature high in world media coverage. As the ...

He was sent to London to represent the interest, and if possible, defend the aspirations of his country which just emerged out of seven years of self-inflicted, senseless war. Sadly, upon his arrival, ...

When Allasane Quattara, Ivory Coast's former Prime Minister and ex- deputy head of the International Monetary Fund, declared the Christmas Eve coup in his country as "not a coup d'etat, but a ...

Liberia: The Emergence of a Criminal State By Tom Kamara For many Liberians, the end of their 7-year ghastly conflict meant an opportunity for renewal and reconstruction. But 2 years after a much ...

In 1996 in northern Uganda, an eight-year old African child tried to escape from his captors. He was caught and beaten to death by his peers in a bizarre initiation ritual set up for new child soldier ...

June 2003: the people of Monrovia were running for their lives. Bombs were dropping on homes and hundreds of thousands were forced to abandon their homes to seek refuge in displaced camps or school ...

The chicanery of the Liberian justice system is unfolding in all its rotten forms with wider implications this time because of its victims --- international journalists and therefore international ...

A little over two years ago, Charles Taylor was campaigning for the presidency in Liberia and making promises of all sorts and to lend credibility to his many promises, he procured rice from the ...

The 20th Century is gradually coming to an end. An unvarnished assessment of this century suggests that it has been markedly momentous and tumultuous. Many significant events and developments have ...