Samuel Doe, 38, president of Liberia for 10 years, since he seized power as a 28-year-old army master sergeant; in that coup, he ousted President William Tolbert and other descendants of American ...

Monrovia, (EFE).- 35 years after the assassination of Liberian President Samuel Kanyon Doe (1986-1990) Liberia held a state funeral, as part of the reconciliation process in the African country ...

The brutality meted out to the 20th Liberian president and the humiliating treatment after death horrified the world. Tolbert, who was 66 when he was murdered, was a highly respected statesman and ...

Editorial - Seeming words of war ensued recently between Madam Nancy B. Doe, widow of slain President Samuel Kanyon Doe, and a family, Senator Zoe Emmanuel Pennue, over a memorial ceremony for her ...

Doe himself met a violent death at the hands of rebels in 1990. His reburial in his home town last week was also ordered by the president. Eugene Shaw via Getty Images ...

The funeral of former First Lady Nancy B. Doe, widow of slain President Samuel Kanyon Doe, has taken an unexpected turn, erupting into a controversy that has shaken the Doe family.

The army of five West African regimes considers Amos Sawyer, chosen at a conference in exile on Aug. 30, the interim president. The Krahn soldiers loyal to the slain ruler call Brig. Gen. David ...

August 28, 1980Boakai's reconciliation effort doesn't just involve memorializing Tolbert, but former President Samuel Doe, who overthrew Tolbert and was himself killed a decade later by fighters ...

Doe’s father was the president of Liberia before being executed in a civil war in the African republic in 1990. Samuel Doe seized power in 1980 during a military coup in which President William ...

Johnson, who was seen sipping beer in a video as his fighters tortured then president Samuel Doe to death in 1990, went on to become an influential political player in Liberia.

Unwittingly, Doe achieved the dubious distinction as the first coup merchant to slaughter a respected African president like a goat and humiliate him even in death by according him a demeaning ...