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Charles Taylor and the NPP won the 19 July 1997 election with a substantial majority, winning 49 of 64 seats in the House of Representatives and 21 of 26 in the Senate. [24] While international observers deemed the polls administratively free and transparent, they noted that it had taken place in an atmosphere of intimidation because most ...
The National Patriotic Front of Liberia-Central Revolutionary Council (NPFL-CRC) was a rebel group that participated in the First Liberian Civil War.The group emerged in mid-1994 and was a breakaway faction of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), which was led by Charles Taylor in full Charles Ghankay Taylor (born January 27, 1948, Liberia).
Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor (born 28 January 1948) is a Liberian former politician and convicted war criminal who served as the 22nd president of Liberia from 2 August 1997 until his resignation on 11 August 2003 as a result of the Second Liberian Civil War and growing international pressure.
The Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD) was a rebel group in Liberia that was active from 1999 until the resignation of Charles Taylor ended the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003. While the group formally dissolved after the war, the interpersonal linkages of the civil war era remain a key force in internal Liberian politics.
LURD commander "Gen. Cobra" with his guards . The First Liberian Civil War ended in August 1997 when Charles Taylor took power as the President of Liberia.Taylor had initiated the war when he and his militia, the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), invaded the country from the Ivory Coast to overthrow President Samuel Doe in December 1989.
Charles Taylor won the 1997 presidential elections with 75.33 percent of the vote, while the runner-up, Unity Party leader Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, received a mere 9.58 percent of the vote. Accordingly, Taylor's National Patriotic Party gained 21 of a possible 26 seats in the Senate, and 49 of a possible 64 seats in the House of Representatives. [49]
Rapper Julio Foolio, whose real name is Charles Jones, has died at the age of 26. Lewis Fusco, an attorney for the Florida-based musician, confirmed Jones’ death to News4JAX in Tampa, on Sunday ...
Taylor reluctantly apologized for the incident in November 1998. [4] The mass killings after the clashes drove hundreds of Krahn to flee the country; some of these exiles, namely ex-ULIMO fighters, eventually began an insurgency against Taylor that would escalate into the Second Liberian Civil War. [6]