Thousands of people gathered in northern Liberia on Saturday for the funeral of warlord-turned-politician Prince Johnson - a notorious face of the country's brutal civil wars, and who died without ...

The United States wants the Economic Community of West African States to take the lead in any mission to end 14 years of almost non-stop war in Liberia. Washington has said it might send a small ...

A Liberian immigrant who spent years living in the Philadelphia ... served as a high-ranking rebel general known as “Dragon Master” during a Liberian civil war. Prosecutors had been preparing to take ...

Shane McElhatton talks to a Franciscan missionary who worked in Liberia, on the continuing civil war there. Report shows civil war, slaughtered civilians and United States Marines evacuating ...

A former Liberian rebel commander known as "Dragon Master" has pleaded guilty to US immigration fraud for lying about his role in the civil war in his home country.

He became infamous in 1990 after ... during the civil war. Johnson's immediate family wore white, while another group of supporters - all dressed in black with red hats - beat drums, clapped, danced ...

Prince Yormie Johnson was a key figure in Liberia's two civil wars between 1989 and 2003, which claimed around 250,000 lives and resulted in massacres, mutilation, rape and the widespread use of child ...