Follow the Money: Payment Trail Reveals Challenges of Ridding Liberia of Corruption
Last July, five months before she accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf welcomed Chevron CEO John Watson into the executive mansion to herald one of the largest investments in her country since the end of its devastating civil war in 2003: Chevron’s purchase of the rights to explore for oil off the coast of the West African nation.
The Failure of the Liberian Runoff Election
Oil money and international meddling seem set to undermine democracy in Liberia, argues Dr Gary K Busch.
Naomi Campbell’s ‘Blood Diamonds’ Found
Prosecutors at Taylor’s war crimes trial claim that the former Liberian president was in South Africa in 1997 to trade uncut ‘blood diamonds’ for weapons that he then gave to Sierra Leonean rebels. Taylor is being tried on charges of fueling the long and bloody civil war in Sierra Leone.