Federal jurors convicted the son of former Liberian president Charles Taylor Sr. of torture and conspiracy charges Thursday, said a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office in the southern district ...

Prospective jurors gasped last week at the gruesome details of torture described in a courtroom as attorneys navigated the jury selection process in Charles Taylor Jr.'s trial, which begins Monday.

Oretha Bestman-Yates, president of the Staten Island Liberian Community Association, says she is worried about the shame among and abuse of fellow Liberian immigrants living on Staten Island. New York ...

The World Bank urges the Liberian government and stakeholders to focus on policy coherence, inter-agency coordination, and ...

This week, former Liberian warlord Charles Taylor, who faces prosecution for war crimes related to Sierra Leone's civil war, tried to flee to Cameroon from Nigeria, where he had taken refuge since ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Liberian Foreign Minister Sara Beysolow Nyanti in Washington this week to discuss expanding cooperation between the United States and Liberia, particularly ...

Liberia's Education Ministry has blocked controversial plans to introduce mandatory drug testing in all of the country's schools. Speaking to local media, the interim head of the Liberia Drug ...

About 15,000 Liberian immigrants live in Philadelphia. Their presence became painfully visible when a fire ripped through several rowhouses in Southwest Philadelphia, leaving four children dead and ...

The Liberian Government, through the Ministry of Labour, has announced the expansion of the annual students' vacation jobs program to all fifteen geographic Sectors of the country. The program ...

Leymah Gbowee employed ingenious–and entirely peaceful–tactics in her women-led movement to end civil war in Liberia. The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winner is speaking out in a new PBS series about how ...

While Manhattan is confronting its first Ebola infection, a Liberian community on Staten Island has been following the devastating toll of the epidemic in West Africa. Hari Sreenivasan reports from ...

More than a dozen Ebola patients are still unaccounted for after a violent attack on a Liberian Ebola treatment center Saturday, authorities say, raising fears that the virus will find a new ...