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

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

Hundreds gathered on Friday in rural Liberia for the state funeral of authoritarian former leader Samuel Doe decades after ...

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

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

In 1989, while he was 30 years old, Osaghae joined a Nigerian delegation of professors sent to Monrovia to instruct Liberia’s ...

Former President Samuel Kanyon Doe died in a dishonorable manner at the hands of rebels that sought the overthrow of his ...

Liberian security forces put down a coup attempt Wednesday led by a former junta member, President Samuel Doe announced in a nationwide radio broadcast. The government troops ”exchanged gunfire ...

Samuel Doe, 38, president of Liberia for 10 years, since he seized power as a 28-year-old army master sergeant; in that coup, he ousted President William Tolbert and other descendants of American ...

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.

In the debate over the political and humanitarian crisis in Liberia, President Bush has talked about the suffering of the Liberian people under the regime of Charles Taylor. He also referred to the… ...