MONROVIA, Liberia On the first day of the return of Finland’s Turku Court of Appeal to Liberia, all two defense witnesses said although an accused former Sierra Leonean warlord was in Liberia in 2001, it was only for “peace talks.”By Forgbe Emma Kloh
BOLGA, Ghana – “I will never vote again in my life,” says Mary Akurugu, as she arranges the firewood she sells at a busy market here in Ghana’s Upper East region. Like people across West Africa Akurugu is facing financial struggle harder than she can
MONROVIA An ex-protection officer for the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone has rejected allegations that a national of that country violated the Court’s “safe house rules” and came to Liberia to commit murder, rape, torture, and other atroci
MONROVIA, Liberia A former soldier with Sierra Leone’s Revolutionary United Front (RUF), has disputed accounts of mainly prosecution witnesses that an ex-commander of the rebel group was called “Angel Gabriel.”By Forgbe Emma Kloh with New Narratives“
MONROVIA, Liberia Two defense witnesses have confirmed the accounts of other witnesses that an alleged Sierra Leonean warlord was in Liberia during its second civil war.By Forgbe Emma Kloh with New NarrativesBut “Defense 5” and “Defense 12” claimed a