* Liberian elections, 2005: the Supreme Court of Liberia rules that the National Elections Commission ( NEC ) had erred by rejecting three candidates on grounds that their registration documents were incomplete.

Unfortunately it can sometimes create difficulties if a Liberian company is to enter into a contract, since the Counter-Party must follow the paper trail to ensure they are dealing with duly elected officials of the Company.

American administration of the border police also stabilized the frontier with Sierra Leone and checked French ambitions to annex more Liberian territory.

Liberian rulers also built up ties with the Soviet bloc and other powers, striving for an independent position in world politics, as far as their strong bonds with the Western world allowed them to.

November 1990, ECOWAS agreed with some principal Liberian players but without Charles Taylor, on an Interim Government of National Unity ( IGNU ) under President Dr. Amos Sawyer.

Both the general election and runoff were marked by peace and order, with thousands of Liberians waiting patiently in the Liberian heat to cast their ballots.

In July 2008, the Legislature reintroduced the death penalty into Liberian law, with President Sirleaf signing the bill into law.

* The Liberian Post-Extensive background information with links and photos.

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.

During the 1990s, Charles Taylor's presidency and the First and Second Liberian Civil Wars underscored Liberian relations with the Western world, the People's Republic of China, and its neighboring countries in Western Africa.

In 2001, Liberian forces along with the RUF began attacking and burning refugee camps and Guinean villages along the border.

* 1980 – In Florida, Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 1, 400-ft. section of the southbound span collapse.

On 25 March 2006, with the election of Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo permitted transfer of Charles Taylor, who had been living in exile in the Nigerian coastal town of Calobar, to Sierra Leone for prosecution.

* 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.

* Former Liberian President Charles G. Taylor was also brought to The Hague charged with war crimes ; his trial stretched from 2007 to March 2011.

According to a June 2, 1999, article in The Virginian-Pilot, Robertson had extensive business dealings with Liberian president Charles Taylor.

Pawtucket is also one of the few areas of the United States with a significant Liberian population, mostly refugees from Charles Taylor's regime.

Gbagbo responded by launching ethnic attacks on northerners living in Abidjan with his army made up partly of Liberian mercenaries, and rumours ( unconfirmed because of restrictions on the movement of peacekeeping forces ) of pro-Gbagbo death squads and mass graves have been reported to representatives of the UN.

In 2000, the UN accused Liberian president Charles G. Taylor of supporting the Revolutionary United Front ( RUF ) insurgency in neighboring Sierra Leone with weapons and training in exchange for diamonds.

< nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki > Daily Star, 1985-10-05: 10 .</ ref > Citing a fear of assassination by Liberian agents, Taylor fought extradition from the safety of jail with the help of a legal team led by former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark.

The Liberian flag has similar red and white stripes, as well as a blue square with a white star in the canton.

Tolbert brought a new approach to Liberian Government's relations with foreign companies.

Old concession agreements were renegotiated, and new concession agreements were negotiated with an emphasis on accountability of the private sector to the Liberian Government.

The city was severely damaged in the First and Second Liberian Civil Wars, notably during the siege of Monrovia, with many buildings damaged and nearly all the infrastructure destroyed.

President Toure, along with President William Tubman of neighboring Liberia and President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, was the vanguard behind the creation of the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ), which has been transformed into the African Union ( AU ), at a Special Head of States Meeting held in the northern Liberian city of Sanniquelle, Nimba County, which is often referred to as the " birth place " of the OAU ( now the AU ).

This movement helped bring an end to the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003 and the election of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in Liberia, the first African nation with a female president.

** Republic of Maryland, the Liberian county when it was an independent nation

A longtime friend of William Tubman, the president of Liberia, he helped form ( 1947 ) and headed as board chairman the Liberia Company, a partnership between the Liberian government and American financiers to provide funds for the development of that African nation.

George W. Bush, cheering Liberians to rebound from Second Liberian Civil War that left their nation in ruins, said February 21, 2008 that the United States will keep lending a hand to make Liberia a symbol of liberty for Africa and the world.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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