“His victory can also be seen as a reaction to the status quo,” Father Dennis Cephas Nimene told Crux. “After 14 years of civil unrest [the Liberian civil war took place from 1989-2003] and the elections of Madam Sirleaf, Liberians wanted ‘so much’ from the government. In 1980, a military coup began the country’s decline into ungovernability, which culminated in civil war and the violent rule of warlord Charles Taylor. After Taylor was driven from office in 2003, the United Nations helped oversee a transition which led to the 2005 elections won by Sirleaf. In 2009, he won a senatorial seat, before a failed campaign for vice president in 2011.

Source: GNN Liberia January 11, 2018 09:09 UTC