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A U.N. helicopter crashed Friday on a routine flight in northern Liberia, killing two crew members and leaving a third missing, the United Nations said.
President Bush told Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Thursday that the United States was committed to helping relieve debt and fight malaria, and soon will send Peace Corps teams back into the African nation.
The Bush administration plans to forgive Liberia's $391 million debt to the United States, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told an international conference on Tuesday.
Africa's first elected female president shows why it's important to educate woman and girls around the world, first lady Laura Bush said Thursday.
In her middle school classroom, Beatrice Munah Sieh spends her days teaching math, science and reading to students with learning disabilities. Soon, she will take on a much different challenge — leading Liberia's police force.
ABUJA, Nigeria - Nigeria won't host the U.S. military's new Africa-wide military command, taking Africa's most-populous nation and a top source of American oil imports out of contention.
I'm in the middle of my second week in Liberia and the excitement of going on an adventure has worn off. It's hot and humid, and there's no reliable running water. I've stood under a running shower only twice in the last eleven days, and for only 3-4 minutes each time.
"Praise God, thank you Jesus," he said when we got into the car. "Praise God, thank you Jesus," he said again when he stopped the car and got out.
I grew up seeing images of starving children in Africa on t.v. I'm bombarded with them all the time by the media. The images of a world so different than mine have always been interesting, but never engaging.
Liberia, slowly rebuilding from 14 years of war, has a poor, largely unemployed population and a devastated infrastructure. And it is confronting the question in this post-conflict setting of how to sustain the health sector - user fees or some other mechanism.
At the UN on Tuesday, the International Labor Organization unveiled a study about productivity. What, though, of the UN's own respect for labor rights? Last month the national staff of the UN Mission in the Congo, MONUC, went on strike.
Liberia has banned students from wearing artificial hair extensions such as weaves or attachments at school. Education Minister Joseph Korto told the BBC it was a way of "instilling moral discipline in our young people".
Liberian election officials have taken an important step toward administering credible elections. In June 2007, the U.S.-based nongovernmental organization IFES hosted intensive trainings in Liberia to introduce the country's election officials to an innovative curriculum called …
It is well know that our Nation's Merchant Ships gave us the supplies needed to win WWII but with 33,222 merchant ships in the world today how many do you think fly the American Flag? You'd be surprised by the answer this Visualization clearly shows.
Alleged child rapists are paying their way out of jail while court officials and police officers demand bribes and kickbacks from the families of child rape victims who want to see their attackers arrested and prosecuted, according to a UN report.
The former president of Liberia, Charles Taylor, is due to go on trial for war crimes in The Hague on Monday. He has been accused of supporting rebels in Sierra Leone, who conducted an 11-year campaign in which thousands of civilians were killed or maimed.
The Naragansett Boy Scout Council based in the United States of America has donated scouting materials valued at US$15,000 to the Liberia Scout Association.
Liberia's largest cemetery has been closed by the president because it is being used as a criminal hide-out. It has become a favourite haunt for Monrovia's underworld after makeshift structures in the capital's slums were demolished and squatters evicted.
A year after electing Africa's first female president, things may be looking up for this war-torn nation founded by former slaves.
Chinese leader to make 12-day tour to Cameroon, Liberia, Zambia, Namibia, Mozambique and Seychelles.
In Liberia, the first African nation to elect a female president, an all-women unit of peacekeepers has arrived from India. Perhaps that's exactly what we need all over the place.
The group of more than 100 police women from India will stay in Liberia for six months, helping to train the local police force. They will also carry out security duties in forthcoming local elections.
The first all-female unit of United Nations peacekeepers has arrived in Liberia's capital, Monrovia. The group of more than 100 police women from India will stay in Liberia for six months, helping to train the local police force.
From the article: NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- A clear vial filled with amber fluid rests on scientist Ilya Raskin's desk, glinting in the autumn sunlight streaming through his office window.
Africa's best and brightest have long flocked to rich countries for opportunities unavailable at home. Brain drain costs the continent millions of dollars per year, depriving it of thousands of sorely needed professionals.
This is a very important event during a very pivotal time for this country as they move towards growth and healing.
Sudan, with its tormented Darfur region, leads a pack of 40 countries facing food emergencies worldwide, according to a report Monday by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
From the Article: MONROVIA, Liberia — In a country where wheelbarrows fill in for pickup trucks, water is carried on little girls' heads instead of in pipes and gallon-size jars replace gas pumps, it is perhaps no wonder that a battered blackboard serves as newspaper and news …
Liberia on Monday began training the first soldiers of a post-war army that officials hope will grow into a small but effective force to take over peacekeeping from U.N.
From the page: -- Charles Taylor, the war crimes suspect and former president of Liberia, used his court appearance yesterday to complain about "draconian" conditions and unappetising European food in the Netherlands prison in which he is being held. --
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