The son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor, who commanded a brutal paramilitary unit in his father's government, was ordered Friday by a federal judge to pay $22.4 million in damages to five Liberians who were tortured and abused during the West African ...

The son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor on Friday rejected as "propaganda" claims by Liberians and the U.S. government that he oversaw widespread torture and human rights abuses while head of an elite paramilitary unit in his father's government. Charles McArthur Emmanuel, also known as Charles ...

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa's first woman president, has announced she will run for re-election next year, despite previously promising to serve only one term. "I now announce to you, and to the thousands of supporters in radio land and abroad, that I will be a candidate," she said during her annual address to parliament on Monday, which ...

Liberia's president said Monday she will run for re-election in 2011 despite a campaign promise to only serve one term. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf made the announcement in an annual message to lawmakers Monday. Sirleaf has been a darling of the international community ever since 2005, when she became Africa ...