April 3, 1978-- U.S. President Jimmy Carter made a brief visit to Liberia, stopping for a working lunch with President William R. Tolbert Jr. in Monrovia. Carter's visit, sandwiched between his ...

Liberia's Prince Y. Johnson, who rose to prominence first as a warlord and then politician, was implicated in serious abuses during the country's two civil wars between 1989 and 2003. His death on ...