At a glance: Liberia

Real lives

Weah speaks out about child soldiers
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and international football star George Weah was in New York last week for the United Nations conference on Liberia. His visit came on the heels of a week-long stay in Liberia where he met with former child soldiers and hundreds of other children.

Rebuilding the lives of child soldiers in West and Central Africa
Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Congo-Brazzaville, Guinea-Conakry … these are some of the war-torn countries in the West and Central Africa region where children are, or have recently been, enrolled as child combatants in national armed forces or rebel armed movements.

George Weah comes home
International football star and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador George Weah returned to his home country of Liberia last week to help focus international attention on the plight of Liberian children in the aftermath of 14 years of civil conflict.

Teacher orientation in Liberia: Learning how to heal student’s hearts and minds
KAKATA, LIBERIA, 7 November 2003 -- It’s day two of teacher orientation classes at the Kakata Rural Teacher Training Institute, Margibi County, Liberia.

Fears for women and children forced out of camps in latest fighting
BLAMACEE, August 2003 - In the spring of 2002, 18-year-old Tenneh, her husband and two children were running out of their home in Liberia’s Cape Mount region when the country’s civil war engulfed the area.

Liberian child soldiers face desperation, exploitation and terror
MONROVIA, August 2003 - James*, a tall, neatly dressed teenager with a gentle smile doesn’t look like a killer, but for much of his life, that was what this young man from Liberia was.