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Historical Timeline for Liberia - A chronology of key events
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Liberia Timeline[edit | edit source]

Date Event
August 24, 1990 The first contingent of 4,000 ECOMOG peacekeepers, commanded by Ghana and Nigeria and comprising soldiers from Guineans, Sierra Leoneans and Gambians arrive in Monrovia. Opposed to their intervention, Taylor's rebel fighters attacked ECOMOG forces.
September 9, 1990 President Samuel Doe is arrested and tortured to death by Prince Johnson and his rebel fighters. The event is filmed and the cassettes are distributed in the capital.
November 27, 1990 The first attempt at peace talks initiated by ECOWAS takes place in Bamako, Mali. Professor Amos Sawyer, the first acting Liberian head of state, is invested in his duties.
November 28, 1990 Taylor's rebels and Doe's soldiers sign Liberia's first ceasefire agreement in Bamako, Mali.
December 21, 1990 A new peace accord is signed in Banjul between the interim government, the Taylor rebels and Doe's supporters.
January 1991 Charles Taylor rejects previously signed peace accords and forms a government headquartered in the central city of Gbarnga. Its forces control 90 percent of the country.
February 13, 1991 Signature of the Lomรฉ peace agreement. It allows the deployment of ECOMOG forces over the entire Liberian territory. The agreement will never be applied.
April 1991 The United Liberation Movement for Democracy (ULIMO), formed in Guinea and Sierra Leone by former supporters of ex-President Doe, invades Liberia to fight Charles Taylor. The movement is led by Alhaji Kromah, a former information minister under the Doe re
June 30, 1991 Charles Taylor, rebel leader and interim president Amos Sawyer meet in Yamoussoukro, Cรดte d'Ivoire for a reconciliation meeting.
October 14, 1992 Charles Taylor's rebels launch an attack on peacekeepers and the interim government in Monrovia.
July 17, 1993 ULIMO, the interim government, and Taylor's rebels meet and sign a ceasefire agreement in Geneva.
July 25, 1993 A new peace accord is signed in Cotonou, Benin, under the aegis of ECOWAS, the Organization of African Unity (currently known as the African Union) and the UN. Disarmament plans and a new transitional government supposed to organize general elections in F
September 12, 1994 A new peace accord is signed by all parties to the conflict in Akosombo, Ghana, again under the aegis of ECOWAS. The warring parties agree to create a five-member state council to oversee the general elections in October 1995. The elections will never tak
December 21, 1994 The warring parties, represented by five armed factions
September 1995 Investiture of Charles Taylor, Alhaji Kromah and George Boley, warlords, as well as three representatives of civil society. They become members of a collegiate presidency that will lead a transitional government
April 6, 1996 Fighting breaks out in Monrovia, pitting the allied forces of Charles Taylor and Alhaji Kromah against those of Roosevelt Johnson, a warlord, but who had led a dissident group of ULIMO from Kromah. Some 1,000 civilians are killed and the homes and offices
August 17, 1996 A new peace accord is signed by the warring parties (now seven in number) and representatives of civil society in Abuja, Nigeria, again sponsored by ECOWAS. Ruth Sando Perry becomes the president of a new transitional government which is due to organize e
November 22, 1996 ECOMOG begins disarmament of conflicting parties with the assistance of the United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia.
July 19, 1997 Charles Taylor wins the ECOWAS-supervised elections, ahead of two other warlords, Alhaji Kromah and George Boley. Taylor's campaign slogan included phrases such as, "He killed my mom, he killed my dad, but I'm voting for him."
August 4, 1997 Investiture of Charles Taylor as President of the Republic for a six-year term. Six African heads of state are present at the ceremony which takes place in Monrovia.
September 18, 1998 Taylor's government security forces oppose former rebels.
April 1999 Dissidents supposedly from Guinea and united in the United Forces for the Liberation of Liberia (JFFL) launch their first attack on villages in Liberia and take six international aid workers hostage.
July 1999 A group of exiled Liberians forms the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD) in Freetown, Sierra Leone, which opposes the Taylor regime.
September 2000 LURD rebels launch an attack from Guinea against villages in northern Liberia, in Lofa County.
May 2001 The UN Security Council imposes an arms embargo on Liberia after finding that Taylor is trafficking in arms and diamonds with rebels in Sierra Leone.
February 8, 2002 Charles Taylor declares a state of emergency after LURD rebels gain ground in northwest Liberia.
June 4, 2003 Liberia's peace talks begin in Accra, Ghana. The Special Court for Sierra Leone charges Charles Taylor with 17 counts of war crimes for his support of the rebellion in Sierra Leone.
June 6, 2003 First offensive by LURD rebels south of Monrovia.
June 24, 2003 LURD rebels lead a second offensive on Monrovia, but are driven back by Taylor's troops.
June 17, 2003 LURD mediators and a second rebel group, the Movement for Democracy in Liberia (MODEL), along with representatives of the Taylor government sign a first ceasefire, following the Accra peace accord , in Ghana.
June 19, 2003 The ceasefire is broken and LURD organizes its third and final attack on Monrovia, displacing nearly 600,000. The intensive bombardment of the city kills over 1,000 civilians.
June 27, 2003 A new ceasefire is signed in Accra, Ghana.
July 4, 2003 ECOWAS military leaders agree to send 3,000 troops to Liberia to restore peace.
July 6, 2003 Charles Taylor gives in to international pressure and agrees to leave Liberia. He takes refuge in Nigeria.
August 4, 2003 A first contingent of 200 Nigerian soldiers from West African peacekeeping forces is dispatched to Monrovia to stabilize Liberia.
August 11, 2003 Charles Taylor resigns and relinquishes power to his vice president. Three African heads of state travel to Monrovia to attend the ceremony.
August 18, 2003 The three warring parties in Liberia and representatives of civil society sign a peace accord in Ghana on the formation of an interim government.
August 21, 2003 The warring parties appoint Gyude Bryant and Wesley Johnson as chairman and vice chairman of an enlarged transitional government.
September 19, 2003 The UN Security Council authorizes the deployment of 15,000 UN peacekeepers to Liberia.
October 1, 2003 The United Nations Mission in Liberia (Minul) takes over from ECOWAS.
October 14, 2003 An enlarged transitional government made up of representatives of the military and civil society is inaugurated.
December 1, 2003 The UN officially launches a program to disarm ex-combatants throughout the country.
December 7, 2003 Fighters rise up in Monrovia to denounce the disorganization of the disarmament program, resulting in a temporary suspension of the process.
December 27, 2003 UN peacekeepers deploy for the first time outside Monrovia.
January 12, 2004 The UN begins training the new Liberian police force.
February 4, 2004 A conference on the reconstruction of Liberia begins in New York. 520 million US dollars are pledged to help rebuild the country.
April 15, 2004 The disarmament process resumes after three months of suspension.
October 31, 2004 The transitional government announces the official end of the disarmament program although it continues in some isolated regions. Almost 100,000 men, women and child soldiers have been disarmed.
November 3, 2004 The three warring parties are officially dissolved.
November 8, 2004 A first group of internally displaced people begins to return to their region of origin.
February 7, 2005 The National Electoral Commission publishes the program of the legislative and presidential elections scheduled for October 11.
October 11, 2005 Presidential and legislative elections supervised by international observers take place. Former football star George Weah and Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf win the first round of the election.
November 8, 2005 Liberians vote to decide between the two presidential candidates in the second round, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Georges Weah.
23 November 2005 The National Election Commission officially proclaims the victory of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf in the second round of the elections.
January 16, 2006 Inauguration of new president, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. She is the first female head of state in Liberia and Africa

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