Liberia History & Information

RUF Supply Route Blocked, Liberia Airlifts Weapons
[Washington, DC, Oct. 13, 2000] In a telephone interview with Joe Wylie, defense spokesperson and senior military advisor of Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD), it was revealed that “since RUF’s supply route has been cut off and their weapons could not get back to Sierra Leone, the [...]

Action-Aid Ends Farmers’ Workshop
March 31, 2003

Monrovia
A 5-day management and leadership workshop for farm leaders has ended in Gull Town Mambahn Chiefdom in Lower Margibi County.
The workshop was sponsored by Action Aid Liberia in collaboration with the Membahn Development Program. It brought together 25 participants from dight towns within the chiefdom.
Speaking during the closing ceremonies, the [...]

By Tarty Teh
[Washington, DC, January 11, 2001] — The intervention force such as what the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) employed in Liberia and Sierra Leone in the ’90s is still not a bad idea. But no one is waiting to book ECOWAS’ Economic Community Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) for the next conflict [...]