( see Liberian elections, 2005 ).

Foreign observers declared the elections fraudulent and suggested that Jackson Doe of the Liberian Action Party should have been declared the victor, and most of the elected opposition candidates refused to take their seats.

The Council was dissolved after the approval of the 1984 constitution and replaced by the Interim National Assembly ( INA ) to pave the way for Liberian elections.

MOJA participates in elections under the name Liberian People's Party.

* Liberian elections, 2005: Campaigning in the run-off election has begun.

* Liberian elections, 2005: Liberians head for the poll today to select a new president, 30 senators and 64 representatives for the lower house of parliament.

In 1997, he was an election observer in the Liberian Presidential elections.

The Alliance of Political Parties ( ALLIANCE ) was a coalition of two Liberian political parties, the Liberian Action Party ( LAP ) and Liberia Unification Party ( LUP ), that contested the 19 July 1997 elections.

While working at Citibank, Sirleaf returned to Liberia in 1985 to run for Vice President on the ticket of the Liberian Action Party in the 1985 elections.

Because of a supposed ‘ fundamentally broken system of governance that contributed to 23 years of conflict in Liberia ’, and failures of the Transitional Government in curbing corruption, the Liberian government and the International Contact Group on Liberia signed onto the anti-corruption program GEMAP, starting September 2005.

Amidst India's growing role in Liberia, the Liberian Minister of Mines and Energy, Dr. Eugene Shannon visited India in October 2005 to participate in the Confederation of Indian Industry-Africa Conclave.

In recent years ( 2005 – present ) the roads on many streets in Monrovia have been rebuilt by World Bank and the Liberian Government ; private and public infrastructures are being built or renovated as reconstruction takes place.

The 2005 Liberian general election was held on 11 October 2005, with a runoff election for the presidency held on 8 November of that year.

Along with former United States President Jimmy Carter, Soglo headed the multinational delegation of the National Democratic Institute and the Carter Center for the October 2005 Liberian election.

Congress for Democratic Change ( CDC ) is a Liberian political party formed by supporters of George Weah's 2005 presidential candidacy.

* Liberian general election, 2005

Following the end of the Second Liberian Civil War, the party contested the 2005 general election.

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On 23 November 2005, Sirleaf was declared the winner of the Liberian election and confirmed as the country's next president.

Before being elected president he served as Speaker of the Liberian House of Representatives and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Liberia.

* In the field of government, Rider graduates include: Nathaniel Barnes, Liberian Ambassador to the United Nations ; Frederick W. Donnelly, former Mayor of Trenton, New Jersey ; Robert E. Grossman, Judge on the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York ; David Rousseau, MBA, former New Jersey State Treasurer ; and Mark S. Schweiker, MA, 44th Governor of Pennsylvania.

Because of its long history of service in West Africa, Civitan was invited by the Special Court for Sierra Leone to monitor the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor, held at the International Criminal Court facilities in The Hague.

He also suggested that Liberian President Charles Taylor be investigated by the Special Court for Sierra Leone for war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in prolonging the regional conflict.

The Conté government was deeply involved in the First Liberian Civil War as it supported ULIMO, the major grouping opposing Taylor in Liberia.

Between 1847 and 1980, the state of Liberia was governed by the small minority of African-American colonists and their offspring, together called Americo-Liberians, suppressing the large indigenous majority of 95 % of the Liberian population.

In 1912 the U. S. arranged a 40-year international loan of $ 1. 7 million, against which Liberia had to agree to four Western powers ( America, Britain, France and Germany ) controlling Liberian Government revenues for the next 14 years, until 1926.

In 1926, the Liberian government gave a concession to the American rubber company Firestone to start the world ’ s largest rubber plantation at Harbel, Liberia.

From 1878 onwards Liberian presidents regularly called for more foreign trade and more foreign investment in Liberia.

As a result Germany withdrew business from Liberia, causing Liberian customs revenue to decrease significantly.

This would have again significantly disturbed the Liberian economy, but America had already in 1942 begun investing substantially in Liberia, in projects related to America ’ s war effort.

During World War I, Germany, at that time Liberia ’ s major trading partner, withdrew from the country, causing Liberian customs revenue to decrease.

Under Doe, Liberian ports were opened to American, Canadian, and European ships, which brought in considerable foreign investment from shipping firms and earned Liberia a reputation as a tax haven.

He fled Liberia, was arrested in 1984 in Massachusetts on a Liberian warrant for extradition, and jailed in Massachusetts ; escaped from jail in 1985, and probably fled to Libya.

Joined by Liberian Muslim Women's Organization, Christian and Muslim women joined forces to create Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace.

On August 18, 2003, the Liberian Government, the rebels, political parties, and leaders from civil society signed a peace agreement that laid the framework for a two-year National Transitional Government of Liberia.

* Liberian Law-Cornell Law Library-contains digitized documents dealing with the creation of the nation of Liberia and the laws enacted at its foundation, as well as extensive links for further research

The noun for a person from Liberia is Liberian ( s ).

Liberia's government is based on the American model of a republic with three equal branches of government, though in reality the President of Liberia has usually been the dominant force in Liberian politics.

The First Liberian Civil War, instigated by Charles Taylor and the National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) on December 24, 1989, eventually spread to neighboring Sierra Leone in 1991 when dissidents of the Revolutionary United Front ( RUF ), led by Foday Sankoh, began using Liberia as a staging ground for NPFL backed military assaults on border towns in Sierra Leone.

The rise of Charles Taylor's government, the Liberian Civil War, regional instability and human rights abuses interrupted the previously close relations between Liberia and the United States.

* 1951 – Samuel Doe, Liberian politician, 21st President of Liberia ( d. 1990 )

* 1913 – William R. Tolbert, Jr., Liberian politician, 20th President of Liberia ( d. 1980 )

* Second Liberian Civil War ( 1999 – 2003 ) – The conflict began in 1999 when a rebel group Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy ( LURD ), with support from the Government of Guinea, took over northern Liberia through a coup.

Liberia has 15 counties, each of which elects two senators to the Liberian Senate.