These include Samuel Doe's coup in Liberia in 1980 and the one that overthrew him in 1989...
Allison the son of Gray Allison Defence Minister in Samuel Kanyon Doe's regime was arrested shortly after meeting Barchue at a Monrovia hotel...
Soon after taking office in 2006 Johnson-Sirleaf promised to govern 'differently decisively breaking from the past' after the brutal regimes of President Charles Taylor and Samuel Doe as well as 100 years of Americo-Liberian hegemony when the country was dominated by a handful of families...
Vol 54 No 10 |
- SIERRA LEONE
Gadaffi had formed a visceral hatred for Liberia’s then military ruler Master Sergeant Samuel Kanyon Doe and decided to back Taylor’s guerrillas against him...
Grand Gedeh is the home region of the late President Samuel Kanyon Doe one of Johnson Sirleaf’s bitterest adversaries...
Johnson – populist militaristic and widely known for choreographing and filming the torture and murder of ousted military leader Master Sergeant Samuel Kanyon Doe in 1990 – had said before the first round results were known that he would support Tubman in the second round...
Although Johnson Sirleaf was criticised for her early encouragement of Charles Taylor’s military campaign to oust Samuel Doe’s regime she quickly disassociated herself from that camp when she saw its brutal excesses...
Prince Johnson is considered a saviour by many in Nimba County for capturing former Liberian leader Samuel Kanyon Doe in 1990...
Yet the adoption of the Freedom of Information Bill and the emergence of a feisty media suggest a democracy in rude health compared to the regimes of Charles Taylor Samuel Doe or William Tolbert...
Prince Johnson former guerrilla leader and killer of Samuel Doe in 1990 will stand...
In response the President has merged her Unity Party with the Liberia Unification Party (LUP) and the Liberian Action Party (LAP) former allies in the 1985 grand coalition against the regime of Samuel Doe...