As mountains of garbage expand in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, the UN Environment Programme has called on the government and private sector to...

Two months after the United Nations lifted a six-year ban on Liberia exporting diamonds the government has still not legalised diamond mining. Right...

Former Liberian president Charles Taylor, who is facing charges of war crimes for his role in the Sierra Leone Civil War, has decided to boycott the...

Orphanages are big businesses in Liberia attracting millions of dollars in international assistance every year, yet thousands of the so-called...

MONROVIA, Liberia, March 30 More than 200 Liberian refugees returned home on a Panamanian-registered vessel this week, marking the first...

The Liberian government’s National Leprosy and Tuberculosis Control Programme says treatment for more than 4,000 tuberculosis patients is at risk...

Thousands of disarmed former fighters from Liberia’s 14 year civil war are still roaming the country without training or reintegration into society,...

Liberia’s almost non-existent health and sanitation infrastructure was again brought into sharp focus this week as officials confirmed that Lassa...

Five years ago a group of fighters marched into Alice Bébo’s village, set it on fire and gave the women and girls a choice: submit to rape or die. ...

Today, IRIN launches ‘The Shame of War: sexual violence against women and girls in conflict’ - a reference book and photo essay of portraits and...