Liberia News

Kai Massaquoi is seen here at the basketball courts at James Logan High School, were he spends time playing hoops, in Union City, Calif., on Tuesday, Nov.

In Liberia, the opposition Congress for Democratic Change party has won a highly contested senatorial by-election runoff over President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's ruling Unity Party.

Main Category: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Also Included In: Pediatrics / Children's Health Public Health Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Article Date: 25 Nov 2009 The Daily Monitor examines efforts underway to improve sanitation and promote hygiene in Ethiopia.

Nineteen-year-old Beauty Phillips clutches her emaciated baby tightly to her chest.

Tuesday's senatorial by-election runoff is generating enormous excitement in Liberia's capital, Monrovia.

In the Liberian capital Monrovia acute malnutrition is due not only to poverty and inadequate health and sanitation services but also to factors such as high teenage pregnancy and the war's damage to the social fabric, say nutritionists, who call the condition "a social problem". "The high levels of acutely malnourished [children] are partly a ...

Police said the parents, refugees from the West African nation, used sticks, wires and their fists to hit their young daughter.

Hundreds of people jammed into a Monrovia church to mourn a Liberian United Nations worker killed in an October attack by Taliban gunmen in Afghanistan's capital.

LIBERIA: "The new war is rape" MONROVIA, 19 November 2009 - In Liberia rape survivors are increasingly speaking up and seeking help as awareness of rights increases, but social taboos persist and seeking justice does not always mean that justice is served.

There was once upon a time in Liberia's dark past when it was fashionable to silence the press by rounding up reporters and editors and incarcerating them for months without charge.

Water and sanitation services in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, are getting worse as a growing urban population tries to squeeze more out of already skeletal services.

The chairman of Liberiaa s National Elections Commission , James Fromayan says partisans of football legend George Weah's Congress for Democratic Change party have threatened to burn down his house and eliminate him in the process.

Rev. Francis Miller, left, and Isaac Monah. Francis Miller, pastor of Noble Road Presbyterian Church in Cleveland Heights, is traveling to Liberia to help build a school in a rural outpost of West Africa.

Liberia was founded in 1847 by former U.S. slaves shipped back to Africa by the American Colonization Society.

Liberia's National Elections Commission said it will announce the final results of a highly contested senatorial by-election this Saturday.

During four months of testimony, Charles Taylor, the former leader of Liberia, denied committing war crimes.

Therea s a lot of anticipation in Liberiaa s capital, Monrovia where a by-election to fill a vacant senate seat is taking place Tuesday.

Tuesday, 3 November 2009, 3:15 pm Press Release: United Nations Police officers serving with the United Nations peacekeeping force in Liberia have helped foil an attempted mass jail break this weekend from a prison in the West African nation's capital, Monrovia.

An International Monetary Fund mission led by Mr. Christopher Lane visited Liberia October 15-28 to conduct discussions for the third review under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility arrangement that was approved in March 2008 .

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right speaks as Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in Washington, DC Since its independence more than 160 years ago, Liberia has often been said to have a special relationship with the United States.