It is beyond my imagination that anyone would believe the president of Liberia would go into Sierra Leone because he wants to terrorize the people and take their wealth.

That was Liberian warlord-turned-president Charles Taylor testifying at The Hague this week for his role in the Sierra Leonean civil war,...

The Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has released its long-anticipated final report on the country's devastating 14-year civil war, and this small West African nation finds itself in an unfamiliar place: the news.

Well, sort of.

Since the war ended six years ago, Liberia has rarely made it to...

I am eating lunch on the patio of the Green Forest guesthouse in Weasua, Liberia, a dusty town in the north of the country. Mitch, Green Forest's caretaker, has just returned from his morning of manual labor. He holds out his empty hands and shrugs. Handsome, well-dressed, and congenitally optimistic,...