Word: liberians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the native Liberians eventually rebelled against the government in the early 1990s a civil war began. Because of Sierra Leone's humanitarian aid to the Liberian government, the rebels invaded Sierra Leone...
...movie by a firm called International Film & Records. After the fight he could not reach IFR for postproduction funds. Later he learned that the company's sole shareholder was Stephen Talbot, Finance Minister of Liberia. Talbot had died in a plane crash; his associate was executed in a Liberian coup, as Gast learned when he saw a TIME photo of the man standing before a firing squad...
SWORN IN. RUTH PERRY, 57, former Liberian Senator; as Liberia's head of state; in Monrovia. Perry, whose nomination was part of an accord to end six years of civil war, is modern Africa's first female head of state...
MONROVIA, Liberia: Sporadic shooting continued in Monrovia as a US. helicopter whisked Liberian warlord Roosevelt Johnson out of the country. US. officials say Johnson is slated to attend a summit conference in Accra, Ghana next week which could end six-year old civil war in Liberia. Spokesman Mike mockery said the White House endorsed the summit and stands ready to support any legitimate democratically elected government. "This won't be the first summit they've had," says Time's Marguerite Michael's. "There are two ways to stop the fighting. One is to come in with heavy firepower and force...
Peacekeepers from eight West African nations used tanks and gunboats to defeat a faction of the former Liberian army that tried to overthrow an interim government; it was the latest outbreak of fighting in Liberia's five-year-old civil war. The attempted putsch came three days after the country's three main warring factions signed a United Nations-approved peace pact...