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  List of Presidents of Liberia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following is a list of Presidents of the Republic of Liberia, made up of the 24 heads of state in the history of Liberia.
The heads of state of Liberia during these periods are shown on a separate list below the list of presidents.
Samuel Doe served as both Head of People's Redemption Council and President of Liberia; he is therefore placed on both lists in his respective roles.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_Liberia   (297 words)

  
 Britain.tv Wikipedia - Liberia
Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the west coast of Africa, bordered by Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Côte d'Ivoire.
The history of Liberia as a political entity begins with the arrival of the fl American settlers — the Americo-Liberians, as they came to be known, to Africa — who established a colony of “free men of color” on its shore in 1822 under the auspices of the American Colonization Society.
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.
www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Liberia   (3345 words)

  
 friendly dictators
President Carter tried to cut US ties to WACL, but Ronald Reagan received campaign funds from the group, and WACL became involved with training and supplying contras in Argentina and Taiwan.
President Reagan claimed Rios Montt was given "a bum rap" by human rights groups, and that he was cleaning up problems inherited from his predecessor, General Romeo Lucas Garcia.
Trujillo was finally assassinated by the CIA in 1961 after he attempted to have President Romulo Betancourt of Venezuela murdered because of his criticism of Trujillo's brutal regime.
www.thirdworldtraveler.com /US_ThirdWorld/dictators.html   (9246 words)

  
 ELCA Liberia Support Network
Liberia is quickly approaching the second stage of its recovery: a smooth, well-planned transition will be as important as the individual policies.
Liberia, Africa's oldest independent republic was founded by freed American slaves in 1847 and was relatively stable for decades.
Liberia is home to one of the largest U.N. peacekeeping forces in the world, numbering 15,000 soldiers, which has helped disarm nearly 100,000 fighters.
www.elca.org /liberia/news/ebulletin-2005sept15.html   (4374 words)

  
 Liberia inaugurates Africa's first elected female leader   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
MONROVIA, Liberia — Africa's first elected female head of state, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, was sworn in Monday as war-battered Liberia's new president, promising a "fundamental break" with the West African nation's violent past and pledging to rebuild.
Others are allies of one-time warlord and President Charles Taylor, who, with the backing of Libya and other regional powers, rampaged through his own country and much of West Africa before he was forced from power in 2003 as rebels shelled the capital.
Twice imprisoned in Liberia in the 1980s for political reasons, she returned during a break in fighting in 1997 to run for president.
www.statesman.com /news/content/news/stories/world/01/17liberia.html   (881 words)

  
 Fruits and Votes » Blog Archive » Liberia: Would open-list PR, a la Somaliland, be better?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In Liberia, presumably the districts would be the 15 counties, with varying magnitudes (seats per district) in the lower house, but retaining the current equality of representation for each county in the senate.
Both forms of PR (and there are intermediate hybrids, too) ensure that the lists as a whole are represented in a way that is proportionate to their votes (in any given multi-seat district, and up to the limits imposed by the magnitude of the district).
A key problem with open lists is that the “party” may be no more than a collection of greater and lesser notables who share only a weak connection to one another, based only upon the convenience of maximizing one another’s legislative representation by pooling votes on a list.
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 Talk:List of Presidents of Liberia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Her color code should be changed to reflect membership in the NDP, or as none, since I think she was supposed to be non-partisan during her term.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:List_of_Presidents_of_Liberia   (111 words)

  
 Liberia - Country Page
Liberia is only recently beginning to recover from a brutal, civil war that spanned 14 years of the West African nation's history.
With children comprising a seventy-percent of total combatants in Liberia, estimated between 27,000 to 38,000, the Secretary-General called for a separate disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programme to be in place for children, with special attention given to the needs of girls.
These organizations are “involved in activities aimed at restoring Liberia's lost pride by engaging national government and international organizations to set a yardstick for fairness, transparency and accountability in the government.” more...
www.womenwarpeace.org /liberia/liberia.htm   (11143 words)

  
 New: Lessons
In February, just one month after she took office, President Sirleaf nullified 70 forest concession agreements, the majority of which were signed by Charles Taylor.
Minin is known for trading diamonds and arms to both President Charles Taylor and the RUF through his timber company, using a number of countries to transship the arms.
President Tubman and Queen Juliana during a State visit to the Netherlands in 1956.
www.liberiapastandpresent.org   (1017 words)

  
 MHS Trustees of Donations for Education in Liberia Records, 1842-1939 : Guide to the Collection
This collection consists of the records of the Trustees of Donations for Education in Liberia, 1842-1939, pertaining to the activities of the organization whose mission was to build and maintain a college or university in Liberia.
The Trustees of Donations for Education in Liberia (Trustees of Donations) was founded by Massachusetts Colonization Society president Simon Greenleaf and secretary Joseph Tracy in 1848, about twenty-five years after the first group of Liberian American colonists settled on the northeastern coast of Africa, and one year after Liberia had declared itself an independent nation.
Liberia had a public school system in place by 1848, but they did not have an established college or university, leaving most of their citizens with limited educational opportunities.
www.masshist.org /findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0221   (2656 words)

  
 
Liberia's strategic location and its rich supply of natural resources were so important for the war effort, that President Roosevelt seriously considered sending Harry Hopkins, one of his closest advisors, to represent the United States in Liberia.
Liberia's declaration of war against the mighty German military machine might sound comical to some, but Liberia's possession of natural rubber, one of the most important strategic natural resources during the war, made her declaration of war against Germany, one more nail on the coffin of Nazi Germany.
In 1930, the Liberia Government was faced with a major political crisis, when the League of Nations appointed the "International Commission of Inquiry into the Existence of Slavery and Forced Labor in the Republic of Liberia", to investigate allegations of slavery and the forced recruitment of indigenous labor by the Liberian Government officials.
pages.prodigy.net /jkess3/History.html   (10290 words)

  
 ELCA Liberia Support Network
USS is a companion synod to the Lutheran Church in Liberia.
Delivering her acceptance speech to the nation following the declaration of her election as president-elect of the Republic of Liberia in the November 8 presidential run-off by the National Elections Commission (NEC), Madam Sirleaf described her victory as the beginning of a new journey in the history of Liberia.
Liberia descended into a cycle of coup and counter coup, war and repression.
www.elca.org /liberia/news/ebulletin-2005dec2.html   (4127 words)

  
 Liberia House: Survivor of the War, Part II
Liberia House: Survivor of the War, Part II Suite101
The obvious mistake was noted since Liberia was made of brick while Yorkshire is said to have been made of wood.
During a severe thunderstorm in the summer of 2003, Liberia's south chimney was struck by lightning.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/civil_war/107186/2   (550 words)

  
 LIBERIA: ''We're being ignored'', say voters outside the capital Liberian Online - Liberia Portal
Liberia, a heavily-forested nation, has only two paved roads, rains have turned its other dirt tracks into muddy quagmires, bridges are still in ruins and some people are forced to travel by canoe just to reach a doctor.
Some residents worry that the lack of interest in more rural areas in the build-up to the election will be translated into indifference to their plight after the ballot.
This affords a great opportunity to a wise presidential, senatorial, or legislative candidate to present his or her platform to the rural areas to capture their votes, as every vote counts, by engaging persons living in rural areas to become local party representatives to campaign on their behalf.
www.liberianonline.com /liberia-news688.html   (1111 words)

  
 Press Briefing by the First Lady After Liberia Inauguration
The inauguration of the President of Liberia was everything I hoped it would be.
And that's a natural resource that Liberia has, that hopefully they'll be able to rebuild their economy and rebuild the rubber plantation and the latex processing plants, now that the civil war is over, now that they have a fair and free election and a new President.
BUSH: Yes, I just gave her the very best wishes from the President when I spoke to her and told her that we would stand with the people of Liberia and that I'm really honored to have the chance to be the one that got to come along with Dr. Rice to her inauguration.
www.whitehouse.gov /news/releases/2006/01/20060116-2.html   (1163 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Have Your Say | Will the US send troops to Liberia?
President Bush has reiterated that the main thing needed to bring peace to Liberia is for President Charles Taylor to resign and leave the country.
To end the conflict in Liberia, a UN peacekeeping force in needs to quickly go in and we should ensure Taylor steps down, but only after e force is in place; and then a balanced interim government should be put in place.
Liberia is an old historic friend of America and as such needs help from the US to bring stability to the country and the region.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/talking_point/2976350.stm   (3413 words)

  
 The worst genocides of the 20th Century
The arrest of Pinochet in 2000 brings up the issue of which other leaders should be or should have been tried for atrocities committed during their rule.
Here is a tentative list of modern dictators (and assorted mass murderers) and the estimated number of people killed by their orders (excluding armies they were formally at war with).
When American presidents decided to bomb the rice fields in North Vietnam, knowing that they would only kill women and children, those are counted as genocide.
www.scaruffi.com /politics/dictat.html   (916 words)

  
 female world leaders currently in power
The following is a list of female presidents and prime ministers who are presently in power.
A few countries have reining female Queens, or, if they are a member of the British Commonwealth, a female Governor General representing Queen Elizabeth as Head of State.
Two women have served as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, and one as President.
www.filibustercartoons.com /charts_rest_female-leaders.php   (298 words)

  
 American Memory from the Library of Congress - List All Collections
American Memory from the Library of Congress - List All Collections
By Popular Demand: Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies, 1789-Present
The Last Days of a President: Films of McKinley and the Pan-American Exposition, 1901
memory.loc.gov /ammem/browse/ListAll.php?title=1   (1067 words)

  
 Chronological List of Female Presidents
01.07.1974- 24.03.1976 Executive President Maria Estella Martínez Cartas de Perón, Argentina.
25.2.1986-30.06.1992 Executive President Maria Corazon Sumulong Cojuangco Aquino, The Phillipines
03.09.1996-02.08.1997 Chairman of the Council of State Ruth Sando Perry, Liberia
www.guide2womenleaders.com /Presidents-Chronological.htm   (151 words)

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