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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 30 June 2007 The U.N. refugee agency is ending its repatriation program for Liberian refugees Saturday. Since the operation began 2.5 years ago, the UNHCR has helped more than 100,000 refugees return home from neighboring count
By Scott Stearns White House 04 January 2006 U.S. First Lady Laura Bush will attend the inauguration of Liberian president-elect Ellen Johnson Sirleaf later this month. She will be joined by Secretary
By Nico Colombant Buduburam Refugee Camp, Accra, Ghana 13 March 2006 In West Africa, even though peace and democracy have returned to war-torn Liberia, tens of thousands of Liberian refugees remain in
By Nico Colombant Dakar 17 March 2008 Police in Ghana have arrested Liberian refugees who were leading protests at a camp outside the capital Accra. The refugees had refused to stop their month-long demonstration against a U.N.-funded repatriation pr
By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 14 March 2006 Wednesday the Liberian president will address what is called a joint meeting of Congress, an honor given to foreign leaders, the most recent being Italy's pr
By Nico Colombant Dakar 26 March 2008 Liberia's much-heralded and awaited census is plodding ahead amid problems with workers who want more money and Liberians who are not staying home to be counted. VOA's Nico Colombant has more from our regional bu
Nearly 30,000 women and children were drawn into the 13-year civil war that ended in Liberia in 2003. As they try to regain their lives, Amnesty International is helping former women soldiers reintegrate into society. From New York, VOA's intern Mah
Liberian Diaspora Debates Reconstruction, Dual Citizenship Former Liberian foreign minister Olubanke King-Akerele, in a keynote speech, proposed a public-private sector partnership whereby Liberians abroad can set up businesses at home. But, she said
Liberian, Yemeni Women Awarded Nobel Peace Prize Two women from Liberia and one from Yemen were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize Saturday for their efforts to peacefully bring change to their countries. Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf attends the New World, New Capitalism conference in Paris, 9 Jan 2009 (file photo) Liberian President, Ellen Sirleaf Johnson is urging countries to make free health care available to the poor. The Liberian pre
By Lisa Schlein The U.N. refugee agency says its program to repatriate thousands of Liberian refugees after many years of exile is gathering momentum. The UNHCR says a first group of nearly 200 Liberi
By Nico Colombant Monrovia 23 February 2008 Former fighters in Liberia's civil war are making statements before the country's ongoing Truth And Reconciliation Commission, trying to move on by admitting what they did. VOA's Nico Colombant caught up in
By Nico Colombant Monrovia 22 February 2008 Teachers and students in Liberia say they want more than textbooks and desks to improve their war-ravaged education system, following new aid pledges by President Bush at the end of his Africa tour this wee
By Scott Stearns Monrovia 21 February 2008 President Bush has announced new American funds to help Liberia rebuild its education system. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports the president visited this civil-war scarred country on the l
By James Butty Washington 15 March 2006 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has arrived in Washington Tuesday for her first official visit to the United States since being i
By Nico Colombant Bokoni 08 February 2008 While former Liberian president, Charles Taylor, is being tried in The Hague for alleged war crimes in Sierra Leone, his imprint is still being felt in the neighboring country of Guinea as well. Some of his f
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 08 August 2007 Nigeria Nigeria has approved citizenship status for about7,000 Liberian and Sierra Leonean refugees in the West African country. For VOA, Gilbert da Costa in Abuja reports that the refugees opted to remain in
Patrick Nimely Sie-Tuon of the U.S.-based Liberia Human Rights Campaign says the group has nothing personal against President Sirleaf only to end impunity in LIberia James Butty | Washington, DC 08 December 2009 Five months after releasing the unedit
By Cindy Saine Washington 05 November 2007 President Bush has awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, imprisoned Cuban dissident Oscar Elias Biscet, and six others. VOA Correspondent Cindy Saine reports
By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 10 December 2007 Liberia's former transitional leader, Gyude Bryant, has appeared in court, after being arrested for missing earlier appearances in his continuing embezzlement trial. The court has given him until Friday to find