Liberia History & Information

Continued from Part 1

Palava Hut: The Abuja Accord has set a deadline of January 31, 1997, for total disarmament, demobilization and repatriation. Is that deadline realistically achievable? If so, how; if not, why?
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf: My personal view is there might be some slippage, and that is because the process got started a bit late. Secondly, [...]

“To Kill Innocent People is Unforgivable,” Sirleaf Observes
 

 
Below is an interview Palava Hut Magazine had with Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf six about ECOMOG’s disarmament of combatants, her interest in Liberia’s economic reconstruction and her role in the Association for Constitutional Democracy in Liberia to pressurize the late Samuel Doe Government. This conversation was had six months before [...]

FLASHBACK:
Liberians, Sierra Leoneans, other Africans and their friends will rally for disarmament of RUF hooligans; beefing up of UN and ECOMOG peacekeepers; humanitarian assistance for Liberia’s and Sierra Leone’s war victims; war crimes tribunal for Charles Taylor, Foday Sankoh, Monie Captan, Grace Minor, Cyril Allen, Sam Bockarie, etc.; cessation of bandits’ looting of West Africa’s [...]