The public-service billboards along Liberia's roadways only begin to hint at the magnitude of challenges facing a nation trying to right itself after 14 years of civil war that ended in 2003.

Of the many civil wars that crippled Africa over the decades, one cannot overlook the Liberia war that claimed ... At the forefront of this war was one Joshua Milton Blahyi, popularly known as General ...

MONROVIA, Liberia (CNN) --Liberia has always held a special place in my heart. It was the first country I visited outside my native Kenya. Freed American slaves began colonizing Monrovia -- named for ...

But that strategic advantage was lost in 1776, as General Washington and his men fled New York after ... Beard warehouses still standing within the Erie Basin. After the Civil War, Brooklyn’s ...

Cape Town – A Dutch arms dealer, convicted of crimes against humanity and for selling firearms to former Liberian president Charles Taylor, has been granted bail in Cape Town under strict conditions.

Henry Casey Camp 92 Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW) held a Memorial Day ceremony at Sugar Grove Cemetery, ...

Guest: Adam Shatz is the US editor of the London Review of Books and author of The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon. He is the host of the podcast Myself with Others.