Liberia`s finance minister urges calm over currency crisis

Last Updated: Thursday, January 23, 2014, 01:30

Liberia`s finance minister warned against panic today after being summoned to parliament to explain a crash in the value of Liberia`s currency against the US dollar.

UN peacekeepers crack down on protest in Liberia

Last Updated: Saturday, December 28, 2013, 15:07

Civilian employees of the United Nations Mission in Liberia have clashed with the United Nations armed peacekeepers in a protest over what they claim are unfavourable work conditions.

UN Security Council extends sanctions on Liberia

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 11, 2013, 04:16

The UN Security Council Tuesday extended by another year the sanctions on Liberia in connection with the country`s civil war.

War criminal Charles Taylor secretly sent to UK jail

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 15, 2013, 17:37

Liberian ex-warlord Charles Taylor was on Tuesday transferred under tight security from The Hague to a British prison where the convicted war criminal is likely to spend the rest of his life.

Liberia`s Charles Taylor asks to be jailed in Rwanda

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 15, 2013, 17:03

Liberia`s ex-warlord Charles Taylor has asked to serve his 50-year prison sentence for war crimes in a Rwandan jail rather than in Britain, Kigali said on Tuesday.

Liberia`s Charles Taylor to serve war crimes sentence in UK

Last Updated: Thursday, October 10, 2013, 17:43

Liberia`s former president and warlord Charles Taylor is to serve out his 50-year prison sentence for war crimes in a British jail, Britain confirmed on Thursday.

India extends $144 million credit line to Liberia

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 11, 2013, 17:18

Asserting that India has participated in Liberia's development effort through human resource and capacity building support in recent years, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said New Delhi's decision to extend USD 144mn credit line to Monrovia will further enhance the engagements between the two nations.

India, Liberia to hold delegation-level talks in Delhi today

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 11, 2013, 11:44

Relations between India and Liberia are close and friendly, marked by a growing economic engagement.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liberian President to arrive in India today

Last Updated: Monday, September 9, 2013, 10:15

President of the Republic of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, will pay a five-day state visit to India beginning on Monday at the invitation of her Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee.

All 25,000 candidates fail Liberia university entrance test

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 28, 2013, 23:20

Liberia`s main public university said on Wednesday all 25,000 applicants for the new academic year had failed its entrance exam.

Liberia`s President marks decade of peace

Last Updated: Monday, August 19, 2013, 08:41

Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf celebrated a decade of peace on Sunday by attending a prayer service held at the scene of one of the worst massacres recorded during the country`s 14-year civil war.