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LIBERIA
At least 40 people, including two fire fighters, are feared dead after a residential building caught fire and collapsed in the Liberian capital, officials say.
The chief procurement officer in the UN peace-building mission in Sierra Leone has signed three contracts worth more than $2.7m in total, way in excess of his $50 000 per contract limit.
Ivory Coast has asked the UN to monitor its border with Liberia with drones to make up for the expected decline in the global body’s presence in that country.
Liberian President Ellen Jonson Sirleaf has appointed a new head of the west African nation’s judiciary, her office says.
The United Nations refugee agency in Liberia has halted its voluntary repatriation programme for displaced Ivorians because of growing violence at the countries' volatile border.
A plane carrying a military delegation from Guinea has crashed in the Liberian town of Charlesville, killing the army chief of staff and 10 other people.
Sierra Leone's rebels depended on logistics provided by Liberian ex-president Charles Taylor to kill, rape and mutilate thousands during the west African nation's savage civil war.
Liberian warlord Charles Taylor has began his appeal against a 50-year prison sentence handed down by Sierra Leone's UN-backed special court.
Prosecutors and lawyers defending former Liberian warlord Charles Taylor are set to begin their appeals at Sierra Leone's UN-backed special court against his 50-year prison sentence.
Ex-President Taylor, appealing 50-year sentence for war crimes, seeks pension from Liberia
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor should have walked free and not been jailed for war crimes because there was not enough evidence to prove he was guilty beyond reasonable doubt, a judge says.
Heavy rains and high moisture are hampering ArcelorMittal’s efforts to ship iron ore out of Liberia, says a company official.
Liberia's main opposition party has vowed to hold a rally to mark the one-year anniversary of a deadly police shooting of their members, despite government banning the gathering.
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has signed a treaty which will connect her electricity-deprived nation to a planned regional power grid by 2016, her office says.
West African neighbours Ivory Coast and Liberia are set to launch a joint Military operation by the end of the year along their volatile and porous border, the two nations' presidents have announced.
