ARTICLES RELATING TO
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 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.
Prosecutors and lawyers defending former Liberian warlord Charles Taylor are set to begin their appeals at Sierra Leone's UN-backed special court.
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor should not have been jailed for war crimes because there was not enough evidence to prove he was guilty, a judge says.
Heavy rains and high moisture are hampering ArcelorMittal’s efforts to ship iron ore out of Liberia, says a company official.
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has signed a treaty which will connect the 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 along their border, the two nations' presidents have announced.
Nobel prize-winning rights advocate Leymah Gbowee has quit her post in Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf's government and accused her of being corrupt.
More than 60 inmates have broken out of prison in Liberia, a report says, adding that authorities are combing nearby forests.
The UN Security Council has backed a cut of more than 50% in the size of the UN peacekeeping force in Liberia.
Liberia's forest department has given a quarter of the nation's land to logging firms over the past two years in a flurry of shady deals.
Liberia has arrested four more suspects in connection with an attack on the Ivory Coast border in which seven UN peacekeepers were killed, a statement says.
The UN Security Council has lifted travel bans and assets freezes on 17 Liberians, including convicted war criminal Charles Taylor.
