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Liberia: Peace Prize in Hand, Boakai Gives Legislature 90 Days to Make War Crimes Court Law

Liberia, May 4 -- By Anthony Stephens, senior justice correspondent with New Narratives President Joseph Boakai returned from the United States on the weekend with a peace prize in hand and a pointed... Read More


Liberia: Dispute Deepens between War Crimes Court Office Chief and Justice Minister Casting Cloud over progress

Liberia, April 28 -- Summary: By Anthony Stephens, senior justice correspondent with New Narratives A public dispute between Jallah Barbu, the executive director of the Office of the War a... Read More


Liberia: Dispute Between War Crimes Court Office and Justice Minister Spills Into Public View Casting Cloud Over Court

Liberia, April 28 -- Summary: By Anthony Stephens, senior justice correspondent with New Narratives A public dispute between Jallah Barbu, the executive director of the Office of the War a... Read More


Liberian Rights Chief Faults Country on Corruption as U.N. Justice Training Gets Underway

Liberia, April 24 -- Summary: The United Nations  began training Liberian prosecutors, investigators and civil society actors to tackle corruption through a human rights lens this week, as the c... Read More


Gambia Begins Paying Reparations to Victims of Jammeh-Era Crimes

Liberia, April 22 -- Summary: By Anthony Stephens, senior justice correspondent with New Narratives The Gambia has begun paying reparations to victims of crimes committed during the violent 22-year ... Read More


Victims and Advocates Angry As Government Stays Silent Over Bribery Allegations in Country's Biggest Human Trafficking Case as Suspects' Release Date Nears

Liberia, March 31 -- Victims in Liberia's largest human trafficking case said they were deeply disappointed by the government's silence after they revealed to FrontPage Africa last week that they were... Read More


Liberians who fled civil war and built lives in America now face removal to a country many barely remember - as the Trump administration eyes Liberia for deportees with no connection to it at

Liberia, March 27 -- It was Kayla's birthday. She was putting her baby son into his car seat, her daughter climbing into the back, her fiance Eriah Nahnie behind the wheel. It was just after 8 in the ... Read More


How Liberia's Human Traffickers Stay Free

Monrovia, March 23 -- On a morning last October, more than 50 women and men walked into Paynesville magistrates' court and told the prosecutors everything. They described a compound next to Vice Presi... Read More


As Liberia Debates War Crimes Court, Experts Urge Forced Marriage Be Treated as a Crime

Monrovia, Feb. 18 -- As Liberia intensifies debate over establishing a long-awaited war crimes court, justice experts are urging lawmakers to explicitly criminalize forced marriage in the court's foun... Read More