Hundreds of thousands of people have been protesting for more than a week on the streets of US cities in the wake of the death of George Floyd at the hands of a white police officer. Why is the US still struggling with race relations 155 years after slavery was abolished? In the 1920s Marcus Garvey, the Jamaican-born founder of the Back To Africa movement in New York, said: “Our success educationally,... 

Yet another Liberian cannibal civil warlord who was rewarded with permanent residence in the US, has been found guilty of immigration fraud and perjury, the US Department of Justice has reported. According to a statement issued by the DOJ, Jucontee Thomas Woewiyu, 72, of Collingdale, Pennsylvania, was found guilty by a federal jury of immigration fraud and perjury charges. Woewiyu lied on his application... 

The UN health agency says the death toll from the Ebola epidemic has passed the 10,000 mark, with the three hardest-hit West African countries taking the brunt of the plight. The World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Thursday that the number of the deaths had hit 10,004 and the total number of cases stood at 24,350. Almost all of the deaths and cases have occurred in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and... 

Liberia has postponed its upcoming Senate elections due to the spread of the deadly Ebola virus that has killed hundreds of people in the country over the past few months. The Liberian election commission announced on Thursday that the decision was made because there was no way to hold the nationwide polls without endangering lives. It added that under the current circumstances, it is impossible to... 

Members of a medical team disinfect people at an Ebola treatment center in Liberia, October 2, 2014. Liberia has passed a law that will restrict the media coverage of the Ebola outbreak in an attempt to protect privacy of the patients. “We have noted with great concern that photographs have been taken in treatment centers while patients are going in to be attended by doctors. That is invasion of... 

A girl walks past a slogan painted on a wall reading “Stop Ebola” in Monrovia on August 31, 2014. An experimental US Ebola vaccine is being trialed on humans at the country’s National Institutes of Health (NIH)’s campus in Bethesda, Maryland. The vaccine has been developed by the agency’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and GlaxoSmithKline. Twenty healthy... 

Liberian security forces stand in front of protesters after clashes at West Point neighbourhood in Monrovia August 20, 2014. Four people were injured in clashes when soldiers opened fire and used tear gas on demonstrators in the quarantine zone in the Liberian capital, Monrovia. It’s as the world tries to contain the fatal outbreak and to find a cure for the deadly disease. The death toll from the... 

The World Health Organization (WHO) says the death toll from the Ebola virus epidemic in Guinea has risen to at least 83. On Wednesday, the UN agency said the fatality rate in the country so far stands at 65 percent with the virus mainly hitting those aged from 15 to 59. The organization added that five new cases of the deadly disease have been recorded in the past 24 hours, increasing the total number... 

Former Liberian president Charles Taylor committed some of the most heinous crimes in human history. The UK government has confirmed that former Liberian president Charles Taylor will serve his 50-year sentence for sponsoring atrocities in Sierra Leone at a British prison. Justice Minister Jeremy Wright said in a written statement to Parliament that former president Taylor will now be transferred to... 

In previous episodes of The Vice Guide to Travel, we road-tripped through North Korea, shopped for dirty bombs in Bulgaria, and hunted mutant wild boars in Chernobyl. Little did we know that all of our harrowing journeys would leave us only semi-prepared for a recent trip to war-ravaged, godforsaken Liberia. Since 1989, a series of brutal civil wars — primarily fought by drug-addicted, prepubescent...