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Liberian president killed in coup gets state funeral after 45 years
The 12 April 1980 coup, in which 28-year-old Sgt Samuel Doe took power, ended well over a century of political dominance by ...
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Liberia: President Boakai Apologizes to Civil War Victims, Pledges National Memorial, and Recommits to Criminal Accountability
By Anthony Stephens, senior justice correspondent with New Narratives MONROVIA, Liberia — President Joseph Boakai has issued an official apology on behalf of the Liberian nation “to every victim of ...
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Liberia president offers state apology over civil wars
Liberia's two back-to-back wars devastated the small West African country from 1989 until 2003, claiming around 250,000 lives ...
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Liberia: Pres. Boakai, Amb. Toner Highlight Historic U.S.-Liberia Ties, Embrace New U.S. Foreign Policy Centered on Economic Diplomacy
President Joseph Boakai and United States Ambassador to Liberia Mark Toner have reaffirmed the longstanding diplomatic and ...
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Liberia: President Boakai Declares Saturday, July 5 As 'National Healing, Reconciliation and Unity Day'
President Joseph Nyuma Boakai, Sr. has by official proclamation declared Saturday, July 5, 2025, as "National Healing, Reconciliation and Unity Day" to be observed as a working holiday across the ...
Liberia inaugurates West Africa’s largest iron ore concentrator, advancing $1.8 billion mining expansion
Liberian’s President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has officially opened ArcelorMittal, a cutting-edge iron ore concentrator at the ...
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Liberia, Samuel Doe and a symbolic state reburial
Samuel Kanyon Doe was president of Liberia after staging a violent 1980 coup against William Tolbert who was assassinated. He ...
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Liberia: Kolubah Declares Political War On Boakai At Doe Burial - 'You Want War, I'll Give You War!'
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 ...
President killed in Liberian coup to be reburied in own grave
Liberia's former President William Tolbert is set to receive a symbolic reburial on Tuesday, 45 years after he was murdered ...
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Liberian President killed in coup to get state funeral
Liberia's former President, William Tolbert, is set to receive a symbolic reburial, 45 years after he was murdered during a ...