Topic: Liberia

Africa Monitor Halloween brings major elections to West Africa

West Africa has several critical votes on the horizon that could indicate whether democratic progress is substantial and real. Cote d'Ivoire and Niger both hold votes on Halloween Sunday.
10/29/2010 04:53 pm

Africa Monitor Recent violence prompting questions about Niger Delta strategy

The independence day attacks in Nigeria by the Niger Delta rebel group MEND is prompting a reexamination of whether current strategies to end the violence are working.
10/27/2010 03:42 pm

Editor's Blog When people make a difference

The powerful and beautiful attract our attention -- and that can be good to focus concern on disasters and other problems. But the world is also full of unsung individuals trying to make a difference.
10/12/2010 08:54 am

Africa Monitor Liberia’s 'Rape Court': Progress for women and girls delayed?

Court E – Liberia's innovative new courtroom just for rape cases – must now weather a national media drama and all the scrutiny that comes of trying a high-level government employee.
10/10/2010 02:13 pm

Former Nigerian rebel leader arrested in South Africa

Henry Okah, the former leader of the Nigerian rebel group that claimed responsibility for a car bomb that killed 12 people in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, on Friday, is due in South African court Monday.
10/03/2010 03:08 pm

Difference Maker Liberia's only woman newspaper editor packs a 'Punch'

Ora Garway runs the tiny newspaper Punch, which despite its modest size has exposed the need for reform in Liberia, a West African country still recovering from a civil war.
09/27/2010 09:38 am

Editorial Board Blog Gallup poll: Degree of one's charity depends on happiness more than wealth

A Gallup poll done for the Charitable Aid Foundation finds more correlation between happiness and giving than between wealth and giving. The survey's ranking of countries puts America as number five. Many poor nations are high in giving of one type or another.
09/10/2010 03:27 pm

Viktor Bout, 'Merchant of Death' arms dealer, faces US terrorism charges

Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer ordered extradited to the US from Thailand Friday, is accused of conspiring to provide millions in military-grade weapons to Colombia's FARC guerilla group.
08/20/2010 04:19 pm

Naomi Campbell knew gift was diamond, says her former agent

Naomi Campbell testified last week she did not know the source or value of the 'stones' she received in 1997. But former Naomi Campbell agent Carole White says that she knew that it was a diamond and that it came from Liberian president Charles Taylor.
08/10/2010 01:57 pm

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Mia Farrow contradicts Naomi Campbell's 'blood diamond' testimony

At the war crimes trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor, Mia Farrow said Naomi Campbell bragged about receiving uncut diamonds from Taylor via unknown messengers. Prosecutors say the stones funded civil wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
08/09/2010 11:20 am

Naomi Campbell 'dirty stones' presented to Taylor war-crimes trial

The 'dirty stones' - uncut diamonds - that model Naomi Campbell indicated she may have received from Liberian strongman Charles Taylor, now on trial for war-crimes at The Hague, were handed over to authorities by a man affiliated with a charity established by former South African President Nelson Mandela.
08/06/2010 01:46 pm

Africa Monitor Naomi Campbell tells war crimes tribunal she got 'dirty rocks': Were they blood diamonds?

Naomi Campbell reluctantly testified at a UN-backed war crimes tribunal today over whether former Liberian president Charles Taylor gave her one or more 'blood diamonds.'
08/05/2010 06:33 am

Naomi Campbell to testify at Charles Taylor war crimes trial

Naomi Campbell will be asked whether Taylor gave her a rough, or uncut, diamond as a gift in 1997.
07/23/2010 11:05 am

Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives

Journalist Thomas French takes a darkly humorous look at humans’ paradoxical drive to tame wild things.
07/21/2010 07:05 am

Africa Monitor Why diamonds can't be Robert Mugabe's best friend

'No one should doubt our resolve to sell our diamonds,' Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe said July 12. Guest blogger G. Pascal Zachary argues why South Africa should engineer the dictator's exit.
07/15/2010 05:23 pm

Omar al-Bashir charged by Hague for orchestrating Darfur genocide

Omar al-Bashir, the President of Sudan, has been charged with three counts of genocide in Darfur by the International Criminal Court.
07/12/2010 04:22 pm

At last, a court to try Somali pirates

Most navies catch and release Somali pirates. But Kenya's new pirate court, funded by the UN, aims to bring legal clarity to a complex international crime.
07/08/2010 01:12 pm

Naomi Campbell to be subpoenaed in Sierra Leone war crimes case

Naomi Campbell allegedly received a rough diamond as a gift from Seirra Leone president Charles Taylor, who is currently on trial in The Hague for war crimes stemming from the country's 1991-2002 civil war.
07/01/2010 01:25 pm

The Circle Bastiat The cruise business, post-financial meltdown

Lavish cruise ships continue to be built, despite the fact that US consumer bankruptcies totaled more than 136,000 in May, 9 percent more than a year ago.
06/07/2010 06:41 pm

Russian forces nab Somali pirates, retake oil tanker

Only 24 hours after Somali pirates took control of a Russian oil tanker and took 23 Russian crew members captive, a Russian warship hunted it down, stormed the vessel, and freed the crew.
05/06/2010 08:57 pm

Terrorism & Security Russian warship wins shootout with Somali pirates, rescues sailors

A Russian warship rescued 23 Russian sailors at dawn today. The men were taken hostage Wednesday when their oil tanker was hijacked by Somali pirates.
05/06/2010 09:27 am

Somali pirates capture China-bound oil tanker

Somali pirates have captured a Russian oil tanker, bound for China. EU naval officials say a Russian Navy vessel is in pursuit.
05/05/2010 01:35 pm

Fewer attacks by Somali pirates, but their net widens

There were fewer attacks by Somali pirates in the first quarter of this year than during the same time last year, but their reach is extending far beyond the Gulf of Aden.
04/21/2010 12:24 pm

The divine rights of women ... and men

A Christian Science perspective.
03/26/2010 09:35 am