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Aug 1996 As the trial of former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor begins, we bring back an exclusive report exposing the atrocities committed by Taylor's men. Filmed in the middle of the civil war, it includes footage of Taylor's supporters preparing to eat a human heart and a rare interview with Taylor. Our film opens with gigantic US military helicopters hovering over Monrovia. The crackle of Kalashnikovs, 'Liberian music', echoes around the empty streets. This is a city with no laws of ...

July 2003 Martin Adler takes us into the heart of the Liberian conflict in July 2003. We follow Charles Taylor's gaudy child soldiers as they police their front line: arresting and shooting looters, trying to explain what they are fighting for. We witness horrific gun battles with the inevitable casualties, speak to children as young as 13 armed with enormous assault rifles and learn of the darkest side of the conflict as one boy tells us, "we gonna eat their heart".

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Silent Super 8mm film Business Class Air Travel in Liberia 1975 Murray Field Airport, Sinoe, Greenville County, Liberia. Business travellers wait for their flight in the departure lounge, order drinks at the well-stocked bar equipped with red spitting bucket, and get weighed it. One thing expatriates learnt how to do in Liberia was to wait...... and wait .........and wait....... The ability to fall asleep at will was a significant benefit, and seasoned expatriates could nod off while ...

This truly one of the most dangerous jobs I have ever been on. My partner and I lived with head hunters for ten days. Traveling over 2000 miles in a jeep all over the Ivory Coast in Liberia. I was happy to get out alive. It is that kind of story that ledges are made out of.

Entertainer Reggae Star Alpha Blondy Sings for Peace In Liberia.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberia's president and Africas first female democratically elected leader, is seen as the darling of the West. Her commitment to tackle corruption and lift war-torn Liberia out of poverty has won her international support. But, as Al Jazeera's Haru Mutasa reports, a report released on Monday by Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which she set up, could damage her clean image.

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China is set to make one if its biggest overseas investments, in the west African nation of Liberia. It's promising to spend $2.6bn developing an iron ore mine. It's hoped the project will create 3000 jobs in a country struggling to recover from years of war. Dan Nolan reports from the mine site, about 150 kilometres north of the capital, Monrovia.

The Life of a Wheelbarrow Pusher in Monrovia, Liberia

Monrovia was all but destroyed after 14 years of civil war. Most thought this city was gone for good, including me. But my return to Liberia convinced me that while the lights and streets are broken, the spirits of the Liberian people are not.

Few people can say they've been to hell and back, but for the people of Liberia, it's true. More than twenty years of civil war left countless lives and the infrastructure of the nation destroyed. This documentary explores their efforts to rebuild and the incredible faith that sustains them in that overwhelming task. It was filmed on location in Liberia by my mother on her first trip there. She coordinates an effort by United Methodist Churches in Illinois to partner with Liberian churches ...

Investing in post-conflict Liberia as it embarks on national economic recovery.

Liberia, a small country in West Africa, has long and deep ties to the United States. The country became infamous in recent years for a bloody civil war that all but destroyed it. Liberia was settled by freed American slaves, and now, as Worldfocus special correspondent Lynn Sherr and producer Megan Thompson report, Liberia is trying to shape an identity it can call its own.

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Dateline: August 13 2009, Monrovia Liberia.... United States Secretary of State Hilary Clinton continued her seven-nation tour of Africa with a stop in Liberia where she received a warm welcome from Liberians and President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. In her statement to the press Clinton emphasized the support of the United States and the Obama administration for the Liberian government and its citizens as Liberia makes a successful transition from conflict to post conflict. She also addressed ...

November 1992 In Liberia, AFL government forces led by the now dead Samuel Doe, fought a vicious civil war against rebel forces led by Charles Taylor. Other West African countries sent in a peace-keeping force, Ecomog, partly funded by the US. However, instead of monitoring a cease-fire Ecomog became a major combatant against Taylor's forces. In a conflict resembling a blood feud the fighters are often young orphans whose fathers have been shot by the opposing side.

Dr. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Africa's first female president made a keynote speech at a workshop on gender and infrastructure co-sponsored by the World Bank and the Government of Japan during the Fourth International Conference on African Development. President Johnson-Sirleaf exposed the infrastructure-related challenges faced by women in post-conflict countries like Liberia. "We inherited a devastated country with damaged infrastructure, a country without electricity or running water ...

news.sky.com Britain will continue to support the needs of millions of people by providing extra funding for Liberia's universal healthcare. Sky's Jane Secker reports.

The art of whopping! This is one of the kids at my favorite orphanage here in Liberia...doing my favorite dance.

scenes from Liberia, past and present.

November 2004 After fourteen years of anarchy, the international community is helping to stabilise Liberia. But how does a country move on after so many years of war? "The economy is totally destroyed ... Monrovia is still a city of a million people without water or electricity," explains UN special representative Jacques Klein. But the most difficult task the country faces is rehabilitating its traumatised child soldiers. "These children have so much sorrow, so much hurt inside," states ...

July 2003 Remarkable pictures, taken with exclusive access from behind LURD lines, show the route and area now being fought over in Monrovia.