UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The U.N. Security Council has voted to retain a ban on Liberian diamond exports, believed used to finance the African country's civil war. The council called on Liberia to comply with international rules confirming the gems' origins.
ABUJA, Nigeria, March 28 (UPI) -- Former Liberia President Charles Taylor, charged with war crimes, reportedly is missing from his exile in Nigeria.
ABUJA, Nigeria, March 26 (UPI) -- Human Rights Watch and a U.N. special prosecutor in Sierra Leone say Nigeria should arrest former Liberian strongman Charles Taylor immediately.
ABUJA, Nigeria, March 25 (UPI) -- Nigeria agreed Saturday to extradite former Liberian strongman Charles Taylor to face trial for war crimes. "President Olusegun Obasanjo has today, 25 March, informed President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf that the government of Liberia is free to take former Pr
UNITED NATIONS, March 17 (UPI) -- The newly inaugurated president of Liberia wants Charles Taylor turned over to a special court in Sierra Leone to stand trial for war crimes.
MONROVIA, Liberia, March 18 (UPI) -- Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has asked Nigeria to return former strongman Charles Taylor.
MONROVIA, Liberia, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf became president of Liberia in a ceremony held outdoors Monday because the battered country had no suitable public building. A U.S. delegation headed by first lady Laura Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice joined the preside
MONROVIA, Liberia, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- "Iron Lady" Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has won Liberia's a hotly contested presidential race to become Africa's first elected female head of state, a report said.
MONROVIA, Liberia, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- Supporters of Liberian presidential candidate George Weah rallied in the capital of Monrovia Friday after Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf claimed election victory. Johnson-Sirleaf, dubbed the "Iron Lady," would be the first woman president of Liberia -- or anywhere
MONROVIA, Liberia, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- Ballot counting was going slowly Friday in this week's Liberian presidential election which appeared early to be headed for a runoff.
