And I'm Melissa Block. In West Africa today one drama ended and another began. Former Liberian President Charles Taylor was captured while on the run in Nigeria. He'll now face war crimes charges at a ...

Prince Johnson, a Liberian warlord turned lawmaker who became a symbol of the country’s civil war atrocities in the 1990s as he was filmed sipping a Budweiser while his forces mutilated the president ...

Liberian Senator and former warlord Prince Johnson, who was seen sipping beer in a video as fighters loyal to him tortured then-president Samuel Doe to death in 1990, died on Thursday aged 72.

MONROVIA, Liberia -- Liberia's defense minister said his troops killed a notorious Sierra Leone warlord, but a war crimes tribunal in Sierra Leone expressed doubt Tuesday that Sam Bockarie was really ...

MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Prince Johnson, the Liberian former warlord and senator whose brutal tactics shocked the world, has died at the age of 72, authorities said Nov. 28. Johnson, who infamously ...

Former Liberian warlord Prince Johnson, a key player in the country's back-to-back civil wars from 1989 to 2003, died Thursday aged 72, officials from his party and the Senate told AFP. Johnson, who ...

FILE - In this photo taken Wednesday Feb. 17, 2010, Liberian Senator Prince Johnson, gestures during an interview in Monrovia, Liberia. (AP Photo, File) MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Prince Johnson, the ...

MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Prince Johnson, the Liberian former warlord and senator whose brutal tactics shocked the world, has died at the age of 72, authorities said Thursday. Johnson, who infamously ...