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Liberia

Samuel Kanyon Doe

Date of Birth: 6 May 1951
Place of Birth: Tuzon
Died: 9 September 1990


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Cross-border crisis

Other Liberian dissidents in Sierra Leone are Krahn fighters from the late President Samuel Doe's army and the ULIMO-J faction loyal to former warlord Roosevelt Johnson...


Problematic peace

Incomes are much lower than they were under the detested but Washington-supported regime of Samuel Doe in the 1980s and only a handful of the war-damaged schools clinics and roads have been rebuilt...


New team, old players

As his businesses flourished while Nigeria's political problems grew Danjuma became an increasingly acerbic critic of military rule telling a nervous Samuel Doe in Monrovia in 1990 not to overstay his welcome and excoriating President Ibrahim Babangida for failing to hand over to the civilians in 1992 as promised...


Taylorland under siege

Since launching his own war against the late Samuel Kanyon Doe’s regime in December 1989 Taylor and his National Patriotic Front of Liberia have made thousands of enemies...


Pax Nigeriana

The protagonists Charles Taylor's NPFL and Samuel Doe's Armed Forces of Liberia escalated the conflict despite peace accords signed in Freetown in May-June 1990...


Threatening 'good order'

Civil rights groups were alarmed suggesting that police behaviour recalled the 'jungle justice' prevailing in the last days of the late President Samuel Doe in 1989...


Blood under the bridge

Sources said that John Bestman Deputy Finance Minister under Johnson-Sirleaf during Samuel Doe's regime had been called home to be Finance Minister...


Taylor's gaolers

As General Services Agency director under Samuel Doe Taylor was accused of embezzling some US$1 million from the government...


Not Charlie's aunt

Though a founding member of the LAP which probably won the 1985 elections which were commandeered by Samuel Doe she is running now under the banner of the Unity Party another former alliance party...


Talking of votes

In 1985 Mandingos voted en bloc for Samuel Doe's mainly Krahn National Democratic Party of Liberia...

Its members know that their parties in 1985 fought each other so bitterly that they opened the road for Samuel Doe on the NDPL ticket...


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