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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

1989 - National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) led by Charles Taylor begins an uprising against the government. 1990 - Doe is executed by a splinter group of the NPFL. 1996 - Peace agreement ...

Calm has now returned to the capital, Monrovia, and most of Liberia, one year after Charles Taylor stepped down from the presidency and took exile in Nigeria. Mr Taylor's departure has not only ...