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Author : Margaret A. Vogt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : IND:30000037391517
Author : Arthur F. Kulah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015043793747
For seven years, Liberia was involved in a civil war that cost the lives of more than 200,000 people. That war ended on January 31, 1997. Liberia Will Rise Again outlines the causes of the war, interprets the present situation, and offers suggestions for the future. KEY BENEFITS: * Provides a better understanding of the civil war in Liberia * Shows how the Liberians may have contributed to the problem * Helps readers learn about the treatment of refugees * Discusses issues related to the civil war and suggests lessons to be learned from the bitter experience
Author : Gabriel I. H. Williams
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Liberia
ISBN : 9781553692942
On December 24, 1989, a group of Libyan-trained armed dissidents, which styled itself the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), attacked Liberian territory from neighboring Ivory Coast. The band of outlaws was led by Charles Taylor, an ex-Liberia government official who escaped from prison in the United States while facing extradition to Liberia for allegedly embezzling nearly one million dollars of public funds. After he fled the U.S. Taylor returned to West Africa, from where he connected with Libya. Sustained by Libyan support, Taylor went to Liberia to spearhead his murderous brand of civil war. Liberia's dictatorial leader Samuel Doe responded to the NPFL invasion by deploying troops in the conflict area, whose senior ranks were dominated by the military strongman's own ethnic group. The government forces carried out collective punishment against local villagers, killing, looting, and raping, while singling out people from certain ethnic groups whom they regarded as supporters of the invasion by reason of their ethnic identity. The NPFL also targeted members of Doe's ethnic group and other ethnic groups that were seen to be supportive of the government, as well as its officials and sympathizers. As the war spread from the interior toward the Liberian capital of Monrovia amid widespread death and destruction, the United States responded to the deteriorating situation by dispatching four warships with 2,300 marines to evacuate Americans and other foreigners who were in the country. The U.S. decided not to intervene to contain the unfolding catastrophe. Officials of the George Bush administration maintained that Liberia, which was then America's closest traditional ally in Africa, was no longer of strategic importance to the U.S. Coincidentally, the Liberian civil war started at the time the Cold War was ending. Located on the West Coast of Africa, Liberia was founded in 1822 by freed black American slaves who were returned to the continent. Their passage was paid by the American Colonization Society, a philanthropic organization, whose members included Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe. The Liberian capital Monrovia is named after Monroe, who was president of the United States at the time Liberia was founded. The country's national flag of red, white and blue stripes with a star, bears close resemblance to the American flag. The systems of government and education, architecture and other aspects of Liberian life reflect American taste. Names of places in the country include Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, Louisiana and Buchanan. More than anywhere in Africa, spoken English in Liberia echoes the rhythms of Black American speech. Liberia served as the regional headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and hosted a Voice of America relay station that beamed American propaganda, as well as other major U.S. security installations during the Cold War. The Americans also operated the Omega Navigation Tower, which was intended to track the movement of ships and planes in the region and beyond. Once one of Africa's most stable and prosperous countries, Liberia was regarded as a haven for international trade and commerce because of the use of the American dollar as a legal tender. Major U.S. investments in the country included the Firestone Rubber Plantation, the world's largest plantation, which produce rubber for Firestone tires, Chase Manhattan Bank, and Citibank. Pan American Airlines (PAN AM) once operated Liberia's Roberts International Airport, where U.S. fighter jets have landing rights. During part of the 1970s, Liberia's per capita income was equivalent to that of Japan. Independent since 1847 as Africa's first republic, Liberia's plunge into anarchy began after a bloody military coup that ended the rule of descendants of the freed slaves, who monopolized political and economic power for over a century. During the 1980 coup, President William Tolbert, who tried to institute some meaningful po
Author : Ikechi Mgbeoji
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780774840569
This book provides both a superb analysis of the historical dysfunction of the post-colonial African state generally and, more specifically, a probing critique of the crisis that resulted in the tragic collapse of Liberia. Ikechi Mgbeoji ultimately shows that blame for this endless cycle of violence must be laid at the feet of both the Western powers and African states themselves. He further posits that a reconstructed regime of African statehood, legitimate governance, and reform of the United Nations Security Council are imperatives for the creation of a stable African polity.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Africa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063144575
Author : Patricia A. Tarin
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780788171086
Contains the proceedings of the May 1996 hearing before the Subcommittee on Africa, House of Representatives, which addressed the crisis in Liberia. Witnesses include: Hon. George Moose, Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of African Affairs, U.S. Dept. of State; Hon. Vince Kern, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, International Security Affairs, U.S. Dept. of Defense; and Lady Johnet Bush, President, Liberian Community Association of Rhode Island.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Africa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : LOC:00183824636
Author : Quentin Wodon
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821389478
This study provides a diagnostic of poverty and human development in Liberia and an assessment of the targeting performance of government measures taken to help the poor cope with the recent economic crisis.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Africa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : LOC:00184236060
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Liberia
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070107615
Author : George Klay Kieh
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0820488399
This book challenges the dominant view that the first Liberian civil war was caused by ethno-cultural antagonisms between and among the country's various ethnic groups. Alternatively, the book argues that the war was the consequence of the multifaceted crises of underdevelopment - cultural, economic, political, and social - generated by the neo-colonial Liberian State.
Author : H. Boima Fahnbulleh
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781581125443
A selection of writings and speeches on the political evolution of the West African Republic of Liberia from 1978 to 2001 by a Liberian political activist who has been at the centre of the political developments in that country during the period covered.
Author : Philippa Atkinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Liberia
ISBN : 0850033667
Author : Emmanuel Dolo
Publisher : Africana Homestead Legacy Pb
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015076174096
Analyzes Liberian history to show how ethnic bigotry caused a toxic political, social, and cultural crisis that culminated in its civil wars from 1989 to 2003. The author also discusses theoretical models with practical methods for bridging ethnic difference, giving the work widespread relevance in conflict resolution.
Author : George Klay Kieh, Jr.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1536150347
Since the founding of the Liberian state in 1847, the country has faced several frontier issues, such as ethnic pluralism and inclusion, the elusive quest for democracy, decentralization, and socio-economic development. Cumulatively, the failure by the various state managers to address these and other major challenges occasioned an enduring civil conflict that imploded into mass insurrection on April 14, 1979, a military coup détat on April 12, 1980, and two civil wars from 1989-1997, and 1999-2003, respectively. Significantly, these major conflict events had profound ramifications, including the deaths of thousands of people, massive internal displacement, refugee crises, the destruction of the already underdeveloped physical infrastructure and the productive sectors of the economy, and the collapse of governance. Against this background, this book explores some of these frontier issuesthe travails of the peripheral state, ethnic pluralism and inclusion, the quest for democracy, decentralization and governance, the monocrop economy and its resulting implications for the crises of underdevelopment, public health, security sector reform, and post-conflict reconstructionthat have and continue to face Liberia in the twenty-first century. This book then makes policy-relevant recommendations for addressing these challenges, as the country strives to address its seemingly unending cycle of missed opportunities and false starts.