The Regional Programme Manager (RPM) for DRC in Liberia is responsible for the management, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and continued development of the DRC regional 3-year expansion strategy for Liberia, Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone (Manu River Countries) and for ensuring external relations with authorities, donor representatives, international organisations and NGOs in the region.

ABA-Africa is currently seeking community based mediation and anti-gender based violence specialists to provide training for Liberian NGOs and to develop effective legal aid services for rural populations in Liberia.

The International Rescue Committee currently seeks a Gender Based Violence and Masculinities Consultant for its Liberia program in Montserrado, Nimba and Lofa to lay the foundation of IRC's Male Involvement: Part of the Solution project. This will include developing a long-term plan in collaboration with the Government of Liberia, training facilitators responsible for forming and leading men's groups in communities of operation within 3 counties.

Some three million people live in Liberia, but after a decade and a half of warfare there are only 34 government doctors catering for their healthcare needs. Fighting destroyed 95 percent of Liberia’s healthcare facilities and the number of trained government doctors in the country dropped from 400 to less then 20 at the civil war’s end in 2003, according Liberia's National Human Development Report.

Alleged child rapists are paying their way out of jail while court officials and police officers demand bribes and kickbacks from the families of child rape victims who want to see their attackers arrested and prosecuted, according to a UN report.

To mark Liberia’s Independence Day, Liberian-Americans and concerned consumers from 36 states are joining Friends of the Earth, International Labor Rights Fund, Institute for Policy Studies, TransAfrica Forum and other members of the Stop Firestone Coalition in telling Firestone that “80 years of exploitation is enough.” As part of the first national day of action organized by the Stop Firestone Coalition, participants will be delivering letters to Firestone Complete Auto Care in Wheaton, MD and to retailers across the country in an effort to urge the tire giant to end its long history of perpetuating slave-like conditions on its rubber plantation in Liberia.

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor on Friday (21 July) made his first court appearance in The Hague since leaving Sierra Leone last month. Taylor's lawyer Karim Khan told the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), sitting at International Criminal Court (ICC) facilities, that Taylor is unhappy with prison conditions at The Hague, calling conditions at the Freetown, Sierra Leone prison that formerly detained Taylor far superior to his current conditions, reports the Jurist.

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has appointed a committee to investigate a recent spate of attacks on journalists who have been probing the country's security services, reports the Center for Media Studies and Peacebuilding (CEMESP).

Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf persuaded the UN Security Council to lift the sanctions on Liberia's timber industry. Revenues from the timber industry will be crucial in rebuilding the country's shattered infrastructure and providing employment to the impoverished populace. However, the Security Council has given Monrovia only three months to enact laws to establish full authority and control over the timber-producing areas.

UN have launched a nation-wide campaign to vaccinate women against tetanus, a simple measure which aid agencies estimate could help slash infant deaths by up to 70 percent. In some communities in West Africa child deaths are so common that it is normal for families to put off naming a child for a week to three months after it is born.

The government of Liberia formally launched the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) with appropriate indoor activities reportedly in all political subdivisions of the country. The June 22 launch of the TRC did not only affirm the commission's independence of action and decision, but it also opened the way for the commencement of the activities nationwide that will hopefully lead to reconciliation, the undoing of the culture of impunity, and the establishment of a new order for a sustainable democratization of the nation.

The international community should do more to assist returning Liberian refugees if peace is to take root there, said Antonio Guterres, top official of the UN’s refugee agency UNHCR, while visiting neighbouring Cote d’Ivoire. But the UN High Commissioner for Refugees warned that peace alone could not guarantee Liberia’s future stability.

The Dutch timber merchant Guus van Kouwenhoven has been sentenced to eight years in prison for breaking a United Nations arms embargo on Liberia. A Dutch court found that Kouwenhoven had sold weapons to the former Liberian president Charles Taylor in return for timber rights. But he was acquitted of war crimes charges based on allegations that private militias formed by his two timber companies had carried out atrocities.

In the first high-profile sackings since President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf came to power and vowed to crack down on corruption, three senior government officials and five other mid-level employees have been fired. They were let go for what Sirleaf called “acts of impropriety.” She ordered government prosecutors to begin legal proceedings against them.

Two new reports looking into the exploitation of Liberia's strategic natural resources conclude that the government still is not in control of the resources. Ex-combatants grouped by former rebel leaders are still exploiting Liberian diamonds, timber and rubber, controlling entire regions.

A Dutch court is due to deliver its verdict on a timber merchant charged with arms smuggling and war crimes during Liberia's civil war. A militia employed by Guus van Kouwenhoven, 63, is accused of killing a group of civilians, including babies. He allegedly broke a UN arms embargo by selling weapons to ex-President Charles Taylor. In return, Mr van Kouwenhoven allegedly received logging concessions.

The Liberian army began recruiting women into its new post-war forces yesterday (5 June), part of a move to reform the military. The army will initially have 2,000 troops, with roughly 400 of them women, an official said.

The Special Court for Sierra Leone has dismissed an application by former Liberian president Charles Taylor challenging a bid to change his trial venue, a court official said. Taylor's lawyer Karim Khan filed in April a motion asking that the court's president either withdraw his request to transfer the trial to The Hague or that the defence be allowed to comment on the issue before a decision is reached.

Global Witness has warned the Security Council against lifting sanctions on Liberian diamonds and timber. Liberian President Ellen Johnston Sirleaf asked the UN to lift the sanctions, providing a much needed boost to Liberia's damaged economy. However, the new government has still not gained full control over these resources from former militiamen. In the past the revenue from the diamond and timber industries funded rebel groups and fueled the conflict in the county, says Global Witness.

A team of foreign financial experts flown in to Liberia to help the new government combat corruption is finally in place. Under a far-reaching scheme backed by Liberia’s partners and donors, known as the Governance Economic Management Assistance Programme (GEMAP), international experts are being placed in key positions to help ring-fence revenue and spending over the next three years.