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Liberia is a country in West Africa founded by free people of color from the United States.The emigration of African Americans, both freeborn and recently emancipated, was funded and organized by the American Colonization Society (ACS).
Liberia, [a] officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to its northwest, Guinea to its north, Ivory Coast to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean to its south and southwest. It has a population of around 5.5 million and covers an area of 43,000 square miles (111,369 km 2). The ...
This is a timeline of History of Liberia. Each article deals with events in Liberia in a given year. Decades. Decades: ...
Liberia, officially the Colony of Liberia, later the Commonwealth of Liberia, was a private colony of the American Colonization Society between 1821, before becoming an the self-proclaimed independent nation of the Republic of Liberia, after declaring independence on July 26 of 1847, but was not recognized by the United States until September 23, 1862
The First Liberian Civil War was the first of two civil wars within the West African nation of Liberia which lasted between 1989 and 1997. President Samuel Doe's regime of totalitarianism and widespread corruption led to calls for withdrawal of the support of the United States, by the late 1980s. [2]
LURD commander "Gen. Cobra" with his guards . The First Liberian Civil War ended in August 1997 when Charles Taylor took power as the President of Liberia.Taylor had initiated the war when he and his militia, the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), invaded the country from the Ivory Coast to overthrow President Samuel Doe in December 1989.
Liberia history-related lists (4 P) E. Historical events in Liberia (8 C) M. History of Monrovia (9 P) Pages in category "History of Liberia" The following 2 pages ...
The 1980 Liberian coup d'état happened on April 12, 1980, when President William Tolbert was overthrown and murdered in a violent coup.The coup was staged by an indigenous Liberian faction of the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) under the command of Master Sergeant Samuel Doe.