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Liberia marks its founding and independence amid challenges

Liberia is celebrating two major anniversaries this year — 200 years ago freed slaves from the U.S. arrived here and 25 years later they declared the country to be independent

The Independent UK

Liberia lines up a swell surf scene

The top ten most neglected displacement crises in the world are all in Africa. It's a worrying first for the annual report of the Norwegian Refugee Council. Also, "Supreme Remains" is a haunting play that has premiered at the Dakar Biennale, inviting audiences to step back through time as an…

France 24

Ivorians who fled to Liberia return 'home', no longer considered refugees by UN

The United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, has announced the end of the refugee status given to Ivorians who fled political crises in their country to reside in neighboring Liberia. To mark the occasion, the human rights organisation's Chief Filippo Grandi was in the northeastern town of Buuto on World Refugee…

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COP15 conference on desertification fails to agree on binding protocol

After 10 days of discussions about how to tackle worsening desertification around the globe, countries fail to agree on a binding protocol to restore degraded soil. Also, we speak to the founder of charity Care4Calais Clare Moseley about the UK government's plan to deport asylum seekers and undocumented migrants to…

France 24

Couple raise funds for neonatal unit they set up in Liberia after son born early

Mikey Bryant had to race home from Africa after wife Bethany gave birth to Finley 11 weeks premature.

The Independent UK

Liberian accused of leading rebel army charged with U.S. immigration fraud

A Liberian man who U.S. authorities say served as general in a rebel group that sought to overthrow the West African nation's president two decades ago was arrested and charged with immigration fraud, the Justice Department said on Thursday.

Reuters

Russian returned home in prisoner swap with U.S. says he was tortured in Liberia

A Russian pilot who returned to Moscow from the United States this week as part of a prisoner swap said on Thursday he had been tortured in custody in Liberia before his extradition to America.

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'Our hands are tied': Liberia grapples with heaps of city waste

As the sun set over Liberia's vast West Point slum, youth leader Archie Gbezay shook his head as children meandered around dense piles of trash, playing catch with jars of old hair product plucked from polluted puddles of water. Gbezay, 34, has seen his neighbours in corrugated iron shacks grapple…

Reuters

Stay or go? Tough choice for Ivorian refugees living in Liberia for two decades

Jealian Didier fled his native Côte d'Ivoire after fighting broke out nearly 20 years ago. The 46-year-old father of five is among some 200 refugees finally returning from northern Liberia, where they've lived since 2003. Others, however, prefer to remain in their adopted homeland.

Radio France Internationale

‘Putin is done’: US lawyer who indicted Liberian warlord Charles Taylor makes case against Russian president

‘I’ve never seen the world come together like this’, ex-UN prosecutor David Crane tells Andrew Buncombe

The Independent UK

Can Liberia's capital keep the sea out without hurting the coastal economy?

Musa Bamba moved to West Point, a bustling slum on a peninsula jutting out from Liberia’s capital Monrovia, two decades ago. The 48-year-old scrap metal trader bought a plot of land and built a 10-room house, back from the water’s edge, for his family in 2005.

Tribune News Service

Federal authorities arrest accused Liberian war criminal ‘Dragon Master’ living in Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA — A Liberian immigrant living in Philadelphia has been arrested by federal authorities and charged with fraudulently hiding his background as a high-ranking member of a rebel group — he called himself “Dragon Master” — that is accused of committing atrocities during a Liberian civil war.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Shell acquitted in Nigeria's 'Ogoni Nine' court case

In tonight's edition: Four Nigerian widows who brought a case against energy giant Shell for allegedly helping corrupt witnesses have their case thrown out. Their husbands, known as the "Ogoni 9", were executed in 1995 for campaigning against the exploitation of oil in southern Nigeria. Also, Liberia makes breastfeeding mandatory…

France 24

Ethiopia lifts wartime state of emergency

In tonight's edition: Ethiopia lifts its wartime state of emergency, which was imposed when Tigrayan rebels threatened to advance on the capital last November. Also, Liberia celebrates 200 years since the country's birth with a mass rally. And we take you to Central African Republic, where peanut farming is essential…

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Liberia celebrates its bicentenary and ties to the US with celebrations in Monrovia

Liberia has marked its "year of return" and bicentennial anniversary of the return of free black slaves from the United States to Liberia with ceremonies attended by foreign dignitaries in and around the capital, Monrovia.

Reuters

Liberia kicks off bicentennial celebrating arrival of Black Americans

President George Weah on Monday called on Liberians to embrace unity and reconciliation as he launched year-long celebrations of the bicentennial of the arrival of the first free Black Americans in 1822.

Reuters

Can the U.N. do more than just talk about Russia, Ukraine crisis?

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, canceled a planned visit to Liberia this week to focus instead on U.N. diplomacy on Russia's troop build-up near Ukraine as Washington warns Moscow could invade at any time.

Reuters

Exclusive-U.S. envoy to U.N. cancels Liberia trip to focus on Russia

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, canceled a planned visit to Liberia this week to focus instead on U.N. diplomacy over Russia's troop build-up near Ukraine, the U.S mission to the United Nations said.

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Liberia's former defence chief Samukai to be jailed for embezzlement

The Supreme Court of Liberia handed down two-year prison sentences to former defence chief Brownie Samukai along with deputies Joseph Johnson and James Nyuman Ndokor after they failed to return one million euros worth of stolen money from a government pension account.

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France, Sub-Saharan Africa flounder in the fight against corruption

Over the past 10 years, France's leadership in the fight against corruption has stagnated, according to Transparency International, in its annual global report of 180 countries on the perception of graft. And many African countries are failing in the struggle against endemic clientelism and fraud.

Radio France Internationale

Liberia declares three days of mourning after stampede kills 29 people

At least 29 people, including 11 children, have died following a stampede during a Christian crusade in the densely populated New Kru Town, a suburb of the capital Monrovia.

France 24

Huge explosion hits Ghana mining region after truck crash

In tonight's edition: An unknown number of people are killed in Ghana in a huge explosion that razed hundreds of buildings to the ground. The blast was caused by a truck carrying explosives which collided with a motorcycle. Also, at least 29 people in Liberia, including 11 children and a…

The Independent UK

Stampede in Liberia kills 29 people after gang attacks church

One witness said the stampede began after armed men tried to stage a robbery

The Independent UK

Stampede at religious ceremony in Liberia kills 29 people

Officials in Liberia say that at least 29 people in Liberia, including 11 children and a pregnant woman, have died in a stampede of worshippers at a Christian ceremony in a densely populated area of the capital, Monrovia

Al Jazeera

Liberia stampede: Dozens killed at religious event near Monrovia

Police say at least 29 people killed in disaster in a suburb of the capital, but there are fears the toll could rise.

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