Summary: The U.N. has begun training Liberian lawyers in international law in preparation for the War and Economic Crimes Court. The training aims to boost the capacity of lawyers to act as ...

MAGBURAKA, Sierra Leone -- One man walked across the border from Sierra Leone into Liberia to flee fighting and lack of food. The other went the opposite direction, to Sierra Leone from Liberia, for ...

(The Center Square) – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers continue to arrest and deport war criminals. The latest is a female Liberian war lord and child soldier recruiter. After she ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. World leaders attend United Nations "Summit of the Future", in New York MONROVIA (Reuters) -Liberian President Joseph Boakai has ...

Click image for more photos. Former Liberian President Charles G. Taylor was sentenced to 50 years in prison on Wednesday for his role in Sierra Leone's decade-long civil war that left more than ...

MONROVIA — I’m zipping around Liberia in a turbo-charged tour of the West African country, ricocheting from public hospital to presidential digs to rubber plantation to rape clinic, taking it all in: ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (UNHCR) - At 17, Dickson Gray has survived a rocket blast and months of captivity by rebel troops in Liberia. He has been shot at repeatedly and seen streets littered with ...

MONROVIA, October 11 (UNHCR) - Every day at two in the morning, Bessy gets up to bake bread. She does it quietly, trying not to wake her children. By five, this single mother of two fixes a modest ...

Having just released his debut album, Bloodlines, the singer discusses his fractured identity, survivor’s guilt and how he took solace in Mumford & Sons ...