Liberians divided over warlord's legacy
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Former President Charles Taylor's men were known for eating the hearts of their slain enemies. They decorated checkpoints with human entrails. They sliced open the stomachs of pregnant women, taking bets on the sex of the unborn child.
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A decision to rename a one-mile stretch of road is at the heart of a fierce dispute that, some say, is fracturing the spirit of one of the largest Vietnamese enclaves in the nation.
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Liberia's government starts moves to seize the assets of former President Charles Taylor.
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Some communities in the Buckeye State remain deeply divided over the president's policies.
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LHOONG, Indonesia  - As a rebel fighter, Marjuni Ibrahim hid out in Aceh's jungle. These days he leads "guerrilla tours" taking visitors with a taste for extreme hiking and an interest in Aceh's turbulent past over the same terrain.
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Thousands of Kenyans turned out Saturday to mourn a slain opposition lawmaker whose death last week set off a wave of ethnic clashes and killings.
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THE HAGUE, June 4 -- The trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor, the highest-ranking African leader to face an international war crimes court, began Monday with the defendant refusing to leave his cell and prosecutors alleging that his fighters hacked off civilians' hands and legs, forced...
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MONROVIA, Liberia -- Thousands of cheering Liberians lined the streets of the capital yesterday to greet President Hu Jintao of China, who pledged more than $35 million to aid recovery after one of Africa's most ruinous civil wars.
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As economic forces push them toward a former ruler, they struggle to redefine their identity.
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Three former warring factions in Liberia Wednesday officially disbanded at a ceremony in the capital of Monrovia. The UN Mission in Liberia said in a statement issued in
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A former Sierra Leonean militia leader, whose fighters were accused of human sacrifice and cannibalism during the country's civil war, died on Thursday weeks before a verdict was due in his trial for war crimes.
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The erosion of some of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr&#39;s status showed recently when his supporters gathered outside his office here.
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The top prosecutor for Sierra Leone's war crimes court on Monday accused former Liberian President Charles Taylor of recruiting fighters in the country he once led and working to destabilize other West African nations. A spokesman for Taylor denied the allegations.
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MBABANE, Swaziland  - He is reviled by critics at  home and abroad for his authoritarian and often arbitrary rule  but adored by others as a God-given monarch in his small  kingdom.
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- His grandmother's bones went missing two years ago, not long after the rains stopped. "The grave is all rubber trees" now, said Sev Thveal, 23. Part of the Jarai minority, he can barely read and write and has worked the land so long that his toenails are a permanent shade of...
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Some question whether it will be enough to quell the violence and worry about the impact of prolonged tours.
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Exclusive: A warlord tied to some of Baghdad's worst atrocities talks to TIME about the roots of Iraq's hate