However, all of this soon changed when Master Sergeant Samuel Kayon Doe seized power through a violent military coup d'etat. The civil war had started on December 24, 1989. The civil war was a strange phenomenon for generations that had enjoyed peace for over a century. I did not know who or what rebels were and the consequences of civil war,” Dorley told ECHO. In 2005, Liberia held its first post-conflict elections, two years after a peace agreement ended 14 years of civil war.

Source: Front Page Africa April 05, 2017 01:30 UTC