Samuel Kanyon Doe

All roads lead to Nimba President Samuel Doe for a while used Liminco's security and warehouse facilities to dominate Nimba County...

Directors include Rilwanu Lukman formerly Secretary General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries and Nigeria's ex-Oil Minister; Egbert Imomoh former Deputy Managing Director of Shell in Nigeria; Guy Pas formerly chief financial officer of oil traders Addax and of the mineral house Oryx; and Engelbert Cooper a Liberian with a colourful business history under ex-Presidents Samuel Doe and Charles Taylor and later in South Africa...

Power has become so polarised over such a long period that to lose it now would be a catastrophe not just for the Gnassingbé family but for the Kabyé people a little like the eclipse of the Krahn in Liberia after the death of President Samuel Doe...

The women all dressed in white claimed that Dweh a first cousin of former President Samuel Kanyon Doe's had played a part in the murder...

Will they emulate their forerunner militias which in 1990 after ousting President Samuel Kanyon Doe tortured him to death and then began a seven-year war among themselves...

His adversaries in the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD) are deeply divided and include some fighters whose record of active service goes back to the presidency of Samuel Kanyon Doe...

l Chayee Doe: late President Samuel Doe's younger brother...

The AFL is composed largely of veterans from former President Samuel Kanyon Doe's national army...

This is just what his predecessor Samuel Kanyon Doe tried to do when attacked by Taylor's own National Patriotic Front of Liberia a decade ago...

At the same time President Lansana Conté is fast losing any popularity he might have had at the the rigged presidential election of December 1998: like Samuel Doe's regime in Liberia and successive juntas in Sierra Leone Conté's is an easy target for rebels...