Next week, the first component of 1,000 West African peacekeepers is due in Liberia to enforce a fragile ceasefire between President Charles Taylor's crumbling government and his r...

Accra has become the centre for the inchoate efforts to end Liberia's civil war after weeks of hosting inconclusive peace talks and now, planeloads of foreign military planners. Pr...

Liberia's latest ceasefire lasted barely a week. President Charles Taylor vowed to fight on as the rebels advanced through Bushrod Island and headed for Monrovia's city centre and ...

General Abdulsalami Abubakar appeared to have won the trust of all sides at the peace talks in Ghana. The Nigerian former ruler was on the verge of getting an agreement on a compre...

Promising that his second-term government would be based on merit not party allegiance, President Olusegun Obasanjo said the focus would be on economic growth and job creation as d...

A new security team is emerging to take on rising crime, threats of terrorism and political unrest in the Niger Delta as President Olusegun Obasanjo consolidates power. Here, consi...

The Sierra Leone Special Court's indictment of President Charles Taylor leaves him little option but to fight to the death, potentially taking the thousands of Liberians who have c...

Revelations by Royal Dutch/Shell that thefts of crude oil from its operations in the Niger Delta could amount to as much as 100,000 barrels a day have been followed by threats of a...

President Gnassingbé Eyadéma will secure a third presidential term on 1 June but this time, hardly anyone is taking the process seriously. The European Union's decisi...

The Special Court set up to try those 'who bear most responsibility' for the decade-long civil war faces a cash crisis which may delay trials and scupper plans for a new court buil...