Monrovia, (EFE).- 35 years after the assassination of Liberian President Samuel Kanyon Doe (1986-1990) Liberia held a state ...

Samuel Kanyon Doe was president of Liberia after staging a violent 1980 coup against William Tolbert who was assassinated. He ...

But Taylor tore apart his country before backing the Sierra Leone fighters. As a rebel leader for the National Patriotic Front of Liberia, he helped oust President Samuel K. Doe in 1989.

Opinion - Over the past few weeks, Liberia, which is recovering from decades of civil upheavals, widespread death and destruction, took a giant step towards national reconciliation, healing, and ...

Opinion - Liberia recently witnessed a poignant national moment: the reburial ceremonies of two former presidents, William R. Tolbert Jr. and Samuel Kanyon Doe. Their deaths, ten years apart, are ...

Liberia's former President William Tolbert is set to receive a symbolic reburial on Tuesday, 45 years after he was murdered ...

Former Liberian warlord and current senator Prince Johnson awaits news in his home in Monrovia, Liberia, on June 26, 2009. Johnson's forces overthrew former president Samuel Doe in 1990, a key ...

Planning Doe's departure from Liberia Bright: What could the U.S. have done differently during the late 1980s? ... Secondly, we tried to do some mediation between Charles Taylor and Samuel Doe, ...

The Special Court of Sierra Leone has passed judgment on former Liberian president and warlord Charles Taylor, with a 50 year sentence for committing international war crimes in Sierra Leone.. The ...

When Charles Taylor, Liberia's current president, launched a war against Doe in 1989, his "method was to exploit the genocidal rage of the Gio and the Mano," the two tribes that had suffered the ...

Liberia's former President William Tolbert has had a symbolic reburial, 45 years after he was murdered during a coup, and his ...