Washington,D.C,USA
A United Nations plan to reduce the number of peacekeepers in war-scarred Liberia has some Liberians concerned about the security of the country. But others are welcoming the plan for the gradual withdrawal of peacekeepers, which would bring the total number of U.N. troops down from more than 14,000 to about 9,000 in the […]

Bush House,London
A few miles outside Monrovia, capital of the west African state of Liberia, the humid scrubland gives way to seemingly endless vistas of tall, geometrically spaced rubber trees.
This is one of the largest rubber plantations in the world.
Drive on, and after a few hours you will find yourself in deep virgin forest […]

UN.News,New York
UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon has selected David Shearer of New Zealand and Henrietta Joy Abean Nyarko Mensa-Bonsu of Ghana to serve as his deputy envoys in Iraq and Liberia, respectively, the United Nations announced.
Shearer will succeed Jean-Marie Fakhouri of Lebanon as Ban’s Deputy Special Representative for Iraq focusing on humanitarian, reconstruction and development issues, […]

By Jennifer Ludden,Washington
Some 3,600 Liberians living in the U.S. may be forced return to their country next month. The Liberians came to the U.S. under a special immigration category known as Temporary Protected Status. TPS was first granted in 1991, as Liberia descended into a decade of brutal conflict.
It’s something of a fallback for […]

Constance Ikokwu,Washington DC
Former Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra-Leone (SCSL), Prof David Crane has said the 2003 peace deal that granted asylum to former President of Liberia, Charles Taylor in Nigeria, had no legal effect under international law and cannot be a basis for instituting legal proceedings against the country.
According to the Distinguished Professor […]

BY Rollo Romig,New York
“We must go back to Liberia and help rebuild the country.” Young and old in the Liberian refugee camp located in Ghana, West Africa repeat this phrase. But usually it sounds more like an abstract slogan than a plan.
More than 40,000 refugees live here in Buduburam, 27 miles west of Ghana’s capital, […]

U.N.News Service,New York
The war crimes trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor has been postponed until early next year after judges at the United Nations-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone(SCSL) agreed today to give defence lawyers more time to study the evidence.
Mr. Taylor’s counsel applied for a delay until 7 January so they could […]

News Service
A United Nations chartered plane, carrying 275 members of China’s sixth peace-keeping detachment to Liberia, left Beijing on Friday for Monrovia, Liberia’s capital.
The detachment, with a total of 558 soldiers and officers of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA), is divided into two groups. The second group is scheduled to depart on Aug. […]

News Service
The August 15, 2007 batch of 22 alleged criminal-Liberian deportees from the US arrived on Broad Street at the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization (BIN) in Monrovia on a 25-seater bus from the airport amidst mixed feelings. Hundreds gathered at the BIN to take a glimpse at their fellow country men whose stay in […]

U.N.New, New York
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recommended on Thursday the more than 14,000 peacekeepers in Liberia be reduced by some 5,000 over the next three years starting in October.
But Ban said it was “too early to determine” when to withdraw the entire peacekeeping force, which would depend on the state of the domestic police and army […]