World news about “Liberia” published by euronews.
Liberia: The trials and tribulations of travel in the West African stateLiberia bears the scars of its two brutal civil wars; burnt out and bombed buildings litter the capital Monrovia and beyond. The war, which started when… 07/03/2012
Liberia: Crossing the Cavalla After the Ivory Coast exploded into civil war in Feburary 2011 thousands of displaced and terrified people crossed into Liberia to escape the… 05/03/2012
Charles Taylor appeals war crimes in the HagueEx-Liberian president Charles Taylor could face a tougher sentence as his appeal is heard in the Hague. Prosecutors have asked for his 50 year sentence to be… 22/01/2013
Liberia’s Taylor jailed for 50 years for war crimesA UN-backed court sentenced former Liberian leader Charles Taylor on Wednesday to 50 years in jail for war crimes. The Special Court for Sierra Leone found… 30/05/2012
Liberia’s Charles Taylor gets 50-year sentenceFormer Liberian president Charles Taylor has been given a sentence of 50 years by judges at the Special Court for Sierra Leone at the Hague. Taylor is the… 30/05/2012
Charles Taylor convicted of Sierra Leone war crimesA United Nations-backed court in The Hague has convicted former Liberian president Charles Taylor of war crimes. The 64-year-old was found guilty of “aiding… 26/04/2012
Liberia’s Charles Taylor guilty of aiding war crimesFormer Liberian president Charles Taylor has been found guilty of war crimes by an international court in the Hague. The court ruled that Taylor had aided… 26/04/2012
Former Liberian president Taylor guilty of Sierra Leone war crimesFormer Liberian president Charles Taylor has been found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity by an international court in the Hague. Taylor was… 26/04/2012
Verdict due in trial of former Liberian presidentA UN war crimes court is expected to deliver its verdict today, in the trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor. He is facing 11 charges over his… 26/04/2012
Back in the Day: Africa’s first female head of stateNovember 23, 2005 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is officially declared the next President of Liberia, making her the first elected female African head of state. … 22/11/2011
Sirleaf set to win second term in LiberiaWith counting underway in Liberia’s presidential run-off the incumbent Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is expected to win after her rival for the job… 09/11/2011
Boycott and unrest marrs Liberia electionTuesday’s presidential election in Liberia is going ahead despite the violence before the poll and calls for a boycott. Early in the day, turnout was low… 08/11/2011
UN intervenes to stop violence before Liberia electionUp to four people have been killed in clashes with police ahead of Tuesday’s presidential election in Liberia. Supporters of the main rival to the… 07/11/2011
Violence on eve of Liberian presidential run-offAt least one person has been killed in Monrovia as Liberia prepares to go to the polls in a presidential run-off on Tuesday. Its reported Liberian police… 07/11/2011
Liberia’s Johnson-Sirleaf ahead on early vote countPartial results from Liberia’s second presidential poll since a civil war have put newly-named Nobel Peace laureate Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf in the lead. The… 14/10/2011
Liberians form long queues at polling stationsLong queues formed in the pouring rain from dawn as Liberia went to the polls. It is the West African state’s second presidential election since its civil… 11/10/2011
Nobel peace prize recognizes womenThe Norwegian Nobel Committee has honoured three women with this year’s peace prize, only the second time in the award’s history that it has been split three… 07/10/2011
Taylor’s lawyer says war-crimes trial is a ‘farce’The lawyer defending the former Liberian president Charles Taylor on war-crimes charges has stormed out of court after angry exchanges with the… 08/02/2011
Gbagbo won’t go, says threat of force “unjust”The UN says 14,000 people have fled the Ivory Coast since the contested presidential election. Most are supporters of the internationally- recognised victor… 26/12/2010
Supermodel gives evidence at war crimes trialSupermodel Naomi Campbell has appeared at the war crimes trial of former Liberian leader Charles Taylor in the Hague. She was summoned by the prosecution to… 05/08/2010
Naomi Campbell wanted as war crimes witnessNaomi Campbell has been ordered to testify at the war crimes trial of former Liberian leader Charles Taylor. Prosecutors say the supermodel was given a… 02/07/2010
Charles Taylor: a history written in bloodEx-warlord Charles Taylor is facing 11 counts of instigating murder, rape, mutilation, sexual slavery and conscripting child soldiers. It is alleged these… 14/07/2009
Taylor slams war crimes charges as “lies”The former Liberian President Charles Taylor has taken the stand at his war crimes trial in The Hague. His defence? He is totally innocent of all the… 14/07/2009
Charles Taylor dismisses charges as “malicious”The former Liberian President Charles Taylor has taken the stand at his war crimes trial in the Hague. In his first statements from the witness box, he has… 14/07/2009
Taylor begins war crimes defenceThe defence team of former Liberian president Charles Taylor has started to put its case against charges of war atrocities in Sierra Leone. Taylor pleads… 13/07/2009
