By EJ Hogendoorn Today the Ebola epidemic in West Africa has formally ended. At its height in mid-2014, there were concerns social order in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone could collapse...
Liberia + 2 more
Liberia + 2 more
By EJ Hogendoorn Today the Ebola epidemic in West Africa has formally ended. At its height in mid-2014, there were concerns social order in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone could collapse...
Liberia + 4 more
Dakar/New York/Brussels, 23 September 2014: The Ebola health crisis threatens to become a political crisis that could unravel years of effort to stabilise West Africa. The hardest-hit countries now...
OVERVIEW Despite marked improvements, numerous grievances that plunged Liberia into bloody wars from 1989 until President Charles Taylor left in August 2003 (originally for exile in Nigeria) remain...
Liberia + 1 more
Dakar/Brussels - Liberia’s October 2011 presidential elections are an opportunity to consolidate its fragile peace and nascent democracy. Liberia: How Sustainable Is the Recovery?, the latest report...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS Since independence and for fourteen years of war, Liberia's army, police and other security agencies have mostly been sources of insecurity and misery for a...
Dakar/Brussels, 13 January 2009: Liberia has gone far since Charles Taylor was overthrown, but its security reform has serious gaps, and the biggest challenges are just beginning. Liberia: Uneven...
Africa Report N°107 - 6 April 2006 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Reform of the justice system needs to be a top priority for Liberia's new government and donors alike. After fourteen years of civil war, the...
I. OVERVIEW 2006 is a decisive year for Liberia and with it West Africa. Just as Liberia once dragged its neighbours into a horrific war, it could now - with good policy and strong donor support -...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS Everything indicates that Liberia's October 2005 presidential and legislative elections are likely to be transparent and fair. Many hope this will permit an exit...
Liberia + 1 more
Africa Report N°87 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS The interventions in Liberia and Sierra Leone are failing to produce states that will be stable and capable of exercising the full range of...
Africa Report N°75 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS Liberia is a collapsed state that has become in effect a UN protectorate. Whether its political and economic reconstruction can begin depends...
Washington DC/Brussels, 16 July 2003: The International Crisis Group called today for speedy decision and action by the Bush Administration to respond to the crisis in Liberia by committing the...
Liberia + 1 more
Freetown/Brussels, 19 August 2002: Liberia is showing all the major warning signs of political, military, economic and social deterioration. The question is whether the international community will...
Liberia + 1 more
PRESS RELEASE Freetown/Brussels, 15 July 2002: The May 2002 election in Sierra Leone was the country's first truly non-violent vote. Sierra Leone continues to make remarkable progress in ending its...