The 1986 Liberian Constitution was adopted on 6 January 1986, replacing the 1847 Constitution that had been suspended in 1980. The 1986 Constitution guarantees the rights of all Liberians, regardless ...

An estimated 250,000 people died during Liberia's two civil wars between 1989 and 2003, which were notorious ... describing his last memories of war-torn Liberia. Jackson built a life as a driver ...

The United States wants the Economic Community of West African States to take the lead in any mission to end 14 years of almost non-stop war in Liberia. Washington has said it might send a small ...

But a huge economic story is unfolding under the cover of the invasion – a plotline that has echoes from the Liberian war financed by its own looted forest – that researchers at Virginia Tech ...

Liberia is one of the poorest countries in the world where only a small minority of families have clean water or sanitation. The country is in ruins after years of civil war. Child mortality is ...

“I just love that idea.” Hartman and her mother journeyed here in 2005, following a destructive, bitter civil war that ended in 2003 in her homeland. “We were trying to escape poverty and ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — The United Methodist Church in Liberia has been roiled in recent days over its position on marriage for same-sex couples after the global denomination, based in the United ...

Prominent former U.S. officials are signing on to represent oligarchs, authoritarians and corporate interests eager to shape ...

Throughout the war in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has rattled his nuclear saber, and the U.S. has dismissed those threats as reckless, with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin calling ...

The work of estimating conflict mortality is difficult. But that doesn’t make this grim exercise, nor accounting for the ...

The director’s portraits of former defense secretaries — Robert S. McNamara in “The Fog of War” (2003) and Donald H. Rumsfeld in “The Unknown Known” (2014) — centered on figures who ...