The 12 April 1980 coup, in which 28-year-old Sgt Samuel Doe took power, ended well over a century of political dominance by ...

Liberia's two back-to-back wars devastated the small West African country from 1989 until 2003, claiming around 250,000 lives ...

President Joseph Boakai and United States Ambassador to Liberia Mark Toner have reaffirmed the longstanding diplomatic and historical ties between Liberia and the United States. By Selma ...

THE REBURIAL of former President William R. Tolbert Jr. and thirteen of his top officials, executed in the aftermath of the ...

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

The burial and symbolic reburial ceremonies of former First Lady Nancy B. Doe and her husband, former President Samuel Kanyon Doe, are over. But President Joseph Nyumah Boakai now faces another ...

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

President Joseph Boakai inherited a major agricultural initiative from the Weah administration--a US$26 million poultry project in Careysburg. During a visit to the project site in May, President ...

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

I write about the funerals of Liberian former President Samuel Doe and his wife, former First Lady Nancy Doe .

Liberia's former President William Tolbert is set to receive a symbolic reburial on Tuesday, 45 years after he was murdered during a coup and his body believed to be dumped in a mass grave.