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FILE: Massaquoi, a Sierra Leonean national, has lived in Finland since 2008, but was arrested there in March last year after a rights NGO investigated his war record. Picture: Supplied.

Liberia

Hearings set to begin in landmark Liberia war crimes trial

By AFP

The court is in the West African state for a case against Gibril Massaquoi, a former senior member of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), a Sierra Leone rebel...

  • Sierra Leonean national Gibril Massaquoi at the first day of his trial at the Pirkanmaa District Court in Tampere, Finland, on 3 February 2021. Picture: Kalle Parkkinen / AFP

    Finnish judges are in Liberia for Gibril Massaquoi's landmark war crimes trial

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    60 days ago
  • FILE: Hospital staff carry a stretcher in the area dedicated to the treatment of COVID-19 coronavirus patients in Mopti, on 28 May 2020. The Somine Dolo Hospital, that represents the main health facility in central Mali, set up an autonomous area to isolate the patients infected. Picture: MICHELE CATTANI/AFP

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  • FILE: Liberian president George Weah. Picture: AFP

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    125 days ago
  • FILE: Liberian president George Weah. Picture: AFP

    Liberia votes on Weah plan to cut presidential terms

    Voters are also choosing whether to repeal a 1973 ban on dual nationality, a move which some hope could be an economic boon in the poor nation of 4.8 million people.

    133 days ago
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    Historic Liberia war crimes trial to open in Switzerland

    No Liberian has ever been convicted -- either in the west African country or anywhere else -- of war crimes committed during the conflict.

    138 days ago
  • FILE: After an altercation with protesters, police expand the perimeter leading to Capitol Hill after the protest against the deepening economic crisis under Liberian President George Weah, in Monrovia on 6 January 2020. Picture: AFP.

    Liberian govt worker self-immolates over unpaid salary

    Leroy Archie Ponpon - who works at Liberia's Temple of Justice, which houses the Supreme Court - set himself on fire outside his workplace after weeks of protesting at delayed pay, one of his colleagues told AFP.

    169 days ago
  • FILE: Liberian president George Weah. Picture: AFP

    Liberia's Weah denies he will seek third term in office

    Addressing a news conference in the capital Monrovia, the president's chief of staff Nathaniel McGill pointed out that George Weah, a footballing icon who took office in 2018, had not even finished his first presidential term.

    175 days ago
  • FILE: Former Liberian President Charles Taylor. Picture: AFP

    Liberia's Charles Taylor denied coronavirus jail move

    Taylor is serving a 50-year sentence at Frankland prison near Durham in northeastern England after being convicted in 2012 by a court in The Hague of fuelling civil conflict in Sierra Leone.

    224 days ago
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    'I was in hell': Infected pregnant Liberian nurse recounts ordeal

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    332 days ago
  • FILE: Liberian president George Weah. Picture: AFP

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    In his 'Let's Stand Together and Fight Coronavirus', President Weah explains how the virus is spread and urges hand washing to a backing of harmonised female vocals and upbeat guitar music from the group The Rabbis.

    390 days ago
  • FILE: Liberian president George Weah. Picture: AFP

    Liberia shuts radio station critical of president

    Roots FM, owned by Henry Costa, is one of the leaders of a group that organised a large anti-government street protest on 17 June, paralysing several areas of the seaside capital Monrovia.

    557 days ago
  • Rescuers hold a body after a fire at a Koranic school that killed at least 26 children and two teachers in Monrovia, Liberia, on September 18, 2019. Picture: AFP.

    Fire in Liberia school kills at least 27 children

    Police spokesman Moses Carter had originally said 30 children were killed before revising the death toll down to 27.

    580 days ago
  • FILE: A Red Cross volunteer explains measures to prevent infection with Ebola to inhabitants in August 2018 in Butugo, western Uganda, near the border with Democratic Republic of Congo.  Picture: AFP.

    Pandemic bonds face scrutiny after Ebola outbreak yet to trigger payout

    Payouts are triggered once a virus outbreak crosses an international border and claims at least 20 lives in each of at least two countries.

    594 days ago
  • Former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Liberia Charles Sirleaf (C), the son of Liberia's former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, is escorted outside the City Court of Monrovia on 4 March 2019, where he appeared in court and charged with economic sabotage following a probe into missing banknotes. Picture: AFP

    Liberia ex-central bank officials plead not guilty in graft scandal

    The Central Bank of Liberia is at the centre of a probe into the cash - materialised between 2016 and 2018 - which prosecutors say the ex-officials cannot account for.

    602 days ago
  • Police deployed as the organisers of the June 7 protest take to the streets in the capital Monrovia on 31 July 2019. Picture: AFP

    Liberia protesters clash with police at rally over economy, graft

    The protesters - in the second major rally since thousands gathered on 7 June - called on the government to improve living conditions amid spiralling inflation.

    628 days ago
  • Former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Liberia Charles Sirleaf (C), the son of Liberia's former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, is escorted outside the City Court of Monrovia on 4 March 2019, where he appeared in court and charged with economic sabotage following a probe into missing banknotes. Picture: AFP

    Sirleaf's son, others charged over Liberia bank scandal

    A Monrovia court ordered former deputy governor Charles Sirleaf, ex-bank head Milton Weeks and bank official Dorbor Hagba to be held in jail pending the scheduling of their trial.

    777 days ago
  • FILE: Liberian president George Weah. Picture: AFP

    Liberia’s president calls for national prayers for economic recovery

    President George Weah is organising all-night prayer vigils on the last Friday of every month for people to pray for infrastructure and economic development.

    804 days ago
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    Liberia wrestles with poverty and ecology in bid to protect sharks

    Fifteen years or so ago, local fishermen who ventured off the coast of Liberia recall expecting to come back with 200, maybe 300, of the fish in their boats.

    816 days ago
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