Liberia, Africa

Nine out of Liberia’s 15 counties lie along 570 km of the Atlantic Ocean and small scale fishing provides a major source of income and nutrition for...

Medical officials in a rural hospital say efforts to prevent outbreaks of Lassa fever, a hard-to treat-disease transmitted by rats, are failing...

Liberia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has started the final public stage of hearings in a two-year process designed to determine which...

Many Liberians observing the opening of the country’s first public truth and reconciliation commission hearings on 8 January were confused about...

HCCO and GTZ to promote the cocoa sector The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (German Technical...

Representatives of government, NGOs, the UN and donors in Liberia are probing the merits and drawbacks of health care fees, as the government weighs...

About 50 people in the village of Klay, northwestern Liberia, recently gathered to watch a man apply red-hot metal to the limbs of four youths...

In Liberia leprosy has long been seen as a disease caused by mystical powers and one that cannot be cured by modern medicine. Health workers and...

It is 7 am in New Kru Town in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, and Redemption Hospital does not open for another hour. But a long line is already...

Ivorian children in a Liberia refugee camp have been deprived of an education based on their home country curriculum in a school that opened there...