In 2007 BET founder Robert Johnson called for "African Americans to support Liberia like Jewish Americans support Israel".
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The joint laureated were: Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee and Yemeni politician Tawakkul Karman "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work".
The former are considered to supportive of Liberian President Charles Taylor, while the former fought with rebels against the government in the Liberian civil war.
Interviewees have included former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Sir Richard Branson of Virgin Group, and Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.
On July 7, 2012, the Alexander Soros Foundation presented its inaugural ASF Award for Extraordinary Achievement in Environmental and Human Rights Activism to Liberian activist Silas Siakor.
Service speed is 15 knots and they sail under the Liberian flag, serving ports between Nouadhibou and Port Harcourt.
In 1929 an American missionary in Liberia reported that Liberian officials were using soldiers to gather tribal people who were shipped to the island of Fernando Po as forced laborers.
Clarence Kparghai (born May 13, 1985 in Monrovia, Liberia) is a Swiss-Liberian professional ice hockey defenceman.
He is the son of former Liberian player and manager Josiah Johnson.
In November 2005, the International Labor Rights Fund, representing "tappers" (workers who extract latex from rubber trees) on the Liberian plantation, filed an Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) case in US District Court in California against Bridgestone (parent company owning Firestone), alleging “forced labor, the modern equivalent of slavery”, on the Firestone Plantation in Harbel, Liberia.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a US-based press NGO, called on Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to issue Azango protection and guarantee her safety.
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FrontPage Africa is a Liberian daily newspaper founded in 2005 by Rodney Sieh.
His tenure as Attorney General of Liberia was marked by his close association and identification with the Liberian Government/Cornell University Codification Project under the directorship of the late Professor Milton R. Konvitz.
Julius Wesseh Nah (born on December 1, 1988 in Grand Kru) is a Liberian footballer (midfielder) playing currently for Zesco United.
During the 1990s, Smith managed Liberian club sides Baccus Marine and LPRC Oilers, before spending much of the 2000s coaching youth teams in the United States.
During the late 1970s Liberia faced a heated civil war in which opposition to the Americo-Liberian and Tolbert government, led to a military coup, organized in part by indigenous tribal members.
On 14 May 1988, the large 564,739 dwt Liberian supertanker, Seawise Giant, whilst carrying crude Iranian oil, was sunk by Iraqi anti-ship missiles off the coast of Larak Island.
It is believed that his customers have included Liberian dictator Charles Taylor and the Revolutionary United Front militants in Sierra Leone.
The wife of soccer star (and former Liberian presidential candidate) George Weah owns a business in Brooklyn and lives in Staten Island.
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The Liberian Civil War led to a flight of Liberian immigrants, fleeing ethnic struggles between the Kru, Gola and Grebo communities, corrupt government, and political strife.
Lofa Defense Force or LDF, a rebel group that participated in the Liberian Civil War
George Tawlon Manneh Oppong Ousman Weah (or George Weah) (born 1966), Liberian humanitarian, politician and footballer
Dennis was once the Liberian National Record holder in the 200 meter (20.58)Fairfax, Virginia in 1998.
Pray the Devil Back to Hell, a 2008 documentary directed by Gini Reticker and produced by Abigail Disney, told the story of the Liberian market women who were able to triumphantly bring an end to the Liberian civil war.
In 2007, Rapp succeeded Desmond de Silva to become the third Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, where he directed the prosecution of former Liberian President Charles Taylor and others alleged to have violated international criminal law during the Sierra Leone Civil War.
The Liberian Journal has interviewed an attractive list of Liberian stakeholders, including President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Vice-President Joseph Boakai, presidential candidate George Weah, and other Liberian Diaspora leaders.
Thomas Jucontee Woewiyu is a former leader of the NPFL (National Patriotic Front of Liberia) rebel group who took part in the Liberian conflict, along with Charles Taylor and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
Originally it was planned to follow the coast, and to this end Côte d'Ivoire built a paved road west of Abidjan along its coast to Tabou, near the Liberian border.
The resolution recognised that the Liberian police and security forces needed to assume greater responsibility for national security.
George Weah, a Liberian politician and former football (soccer) forward, who was the FIFA World Player of the Year of 1995
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Edward Weah Dixon, a Liberian-French footballer (midfielder) playing currently for Thouars Foot 79
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Stephen Weah, a Liberian football (soccer) striker, currently plays for Preston Lions FC