A $65-million contract was awarded to US-based Bridge International Academies – but the move has drawn international and local criticism.

Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has suspended her son and 45 government officials for not declaring their assets to anti-graft authorities.

A blood-diamond expert and an account from a Sierra Leonean miner who said laughing rebels hacked off his hands and burned his family opened the war-crimes trial against…