The tyrant of Liberia is dead. The people are no better off. Monrovia, the capital city, has ceased to function. Three armies are in the field, four if the little band of loyalists holed up in the ...

Monrovia, Liberia, September 9, 1990: Many Liberians once thought that President Samuel Doe was invulnerable, protected by powerful black magic. But, in the video, he is slumped on the floor, his ...

Samuel Doe has crushed an attempted coup by Gen. Thomas Quiwonkpa, the popular former commander of Liberia`s armed forces, who was killed in the attempt. But Mr. Doe had no victory over the political ...

Al Fuertes, who taught the "Trauma Awareness and Transformation" course at SPI this year, enjoys the opening welcome session of the 2011 Summer Peacebuilding Institute. Behind Al is Babu Ayindo, ...

Herman Cohen was U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs from 1989-1993. In this interview, conducted by filmmaker Nancee Oku Bright in February 2000, Cohen discusses the long-term ...

The Republic of Liberia has taken two major steps in attempts to come to terms with, and achieve closure on, its bloody history. In 2006, former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, organised a Truth and ...

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 ...

On December 10, the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Africa anxiously awaited testimony from Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Chester Crocker, the Administration’s top ...