Liberia’s President Set to Visit Atlanta May 10-13
The president of the West African nation of Liberia is set to visit Atlanta later this week on the tail end of a U.S. visit. Joseph N. Boakai, Sr., the […]
Liberia to set up first war crimes court
This is the first major step towards creating a war crimes court in Liberia. A Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was set up in 2006 by former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, but it was not a tribunal. In 2009 the TRC identified a list of people to be prosecuted for war crimes, but no action was taken.
Liberia passes a law setting up a long-awaited war crimes court
Liberian President Joseph Boakai has signed an executive order to create a long-awaited war crimes court to deliver justice to the victims of Liberia's two civil wars.
Liberia Moves to Create War Crimes Court, Decades After Civil Wars Ended
Until now, key players had blocked the establishment of a court that could hold them accountable for atrocities like murder, rape and torture.
Liberia's Boakai Creates Office Of War Crimes Court
Liberia's President Joseph Boakai on Thursday signed an executive order marking a major step towards the creation of a long-awaited war crimes court, more than two decades after the end of devastating civil conflict.
Liberia's President Joseph Boakai to set up first war crimes court
Liberian President Joseph Boakai has signed an executive order to establish the country's first war crimes court, more than 20 years after the end of two civil wars which killed 250,000 people. Mr Boakai said Liberia had "endured downpours of agony".
Liberian president signs order to create war crimes court
Liberian President Joseph Boakai on Thursday signed an executive order to establish a war crimes court meant to bring overdue justice to victims of serious abuses committed during the West African country's two civil wars.
New Liberia forest boss plans to increase exports, denies working with war criminal Charles Taylor
Liberia, West Africa’s most forested country, has a long history of illegal logging, which the country's regulator, the ...
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My time with the Scrabble kings of Liberia
I first saw it more than two decades ago in the market town of Danané, treacherously near the border with Liberia, where a civil war that began in 1989 still raged. Many Liberians were forced ...
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Cocoa farming in Liberia risks undermining EU deforestation law
JOHANNESBURG, April 22 (Reuters) - Farmers are clearing forests in Liberia to create cocoa plantations and are trafficking the beans into neighbouring Ivory Coast, undermining European efforts to ...
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Liberia: Why Boakai Needs Sirleaf’s Support
Liberia’s President Joseph Boakai clocked 100 days in office yesterday 1 May 2024. It’s too early to draw up realistic ...
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An estimated 250,000 people were killed in Liberia's two civil wars between 1989 and 2003. Joseph Boakai tells the BBC he is trying to change the mindset of those who think government is a way to ...
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Liberia senate approves war crimes court's creation
MONROVIA, April 9 (Reuters) - Liberia's senate on Tuesday backed the establishment of a war crimes court meant to bring overdue justice to victims of serious abuses committed during the West ...
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Liberia: Patrick Lumumba Is to Address Conference in Monrovia Today
Kenyan lawyer and Pan-Africanism activist Prof. Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba is expected to address a conference in Monrovia today, May 7, 2024.