The Liberian president, Charles Taylor, may now be encouraging the spread of the war to Guinea.
The Liberian president reportedly chided Knuckles, a married father, but said he had done nothing illegal.
The coup was greeted with elation: Doe promised to liberate the indigenous people from the Americo-Liberian yoke.
An incredible 92% of Liberian women in one study said they had been raped in that country's war.
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The Liberian team managed to win third place in the tournament despite having lost four of its players.
With her revolutionary spirit still strong, she springs Charles Taylor, Doe's rival Liberian renegade, from jail in Massachusetts.
The Liberian Embassy in Paris declined to answer any questions about Greenpeace's protest.
Inmates at a camp for Liberian refugees near the town of Guiglo said the army often came recruiting there.
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was also one of Mr. Taylor's early backers.
Among the notable examples are Nelson Mandela in 1990 and 1994 and Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in 2006.
Previous recipients of the award include Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
We want to work together to produce a bicycle in Liberia, sell them in Liberia with a traditional Liberian name.
Leymah Gbowee, a Liberian activist and Nobel Peace Laureate, however, has a different and decidedly more precarious act to balance.
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"Before I transit, I think it is important that peacekeepers be present, " he told a meeting of Liberian clerics Friday.
We particularly give this credit to Liberian women, who have consistently led the struggle for peace, even under conditions of neglect.
It was owned by a Liberian company that had registered it in the Bahamas, and was operated by a Greek crew.
Already the Liberian president has called for an inquiry, though there seems little likelihood of similar soul-searching in the Central African Republic.
Last week, an opposition leader said some of the troops had been former members of the Liberian paramilitary group, the United Liberation Movement.
The group Liberians United to Serve Humanity (LUSH) distributed food on behalf of the United Nations during the height of the Liberian crisis.
While saying he will continue to assist the development of Liberian football, Weah is keen to play a bigger role on the international stage.
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In the Liberian capital, Monrovia, newspaper publisher Tom Kamara hailed the verdict, saying "justice has been done" and it was "an end to impunity".
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Poor countries may suffer when they lose their best brains to the West: 43% of Liberian doctors, for example, now work in North America.
Britain agreed to hold Charles Taylor in prison if the former Liberian leader is convicted of war crimes at his trial in The Hague.
Officials said all nine members of the crew arrested on board the ship were Ghanaians who were immediately turned over to the Liberian police.
The Liberian border has been officially closed since June 10, but "the border in this region is porous, " said FRCI Commander Aboubakar Sangare, in Toulepleu.
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For this reason, I have determined that it is necessary to continue the national emergency with respect to the former Liberian regime of Charles Taylor.
Witnesses for the plaintiff testified that, in one six-month period in 1982, the church had transferred millions of dollars to Hubbard through a Liberian corporation.
The trouble is, Liberian auxiliaries are extremely useful to the government.
This year's Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded jointly to three women - Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian Leymah Gbowee and Tawakul Karman of Yemen.
In Monrovia, Senegal took the lead through midfielder Pape Bouba Diop who headed a cross from Abdoulaye Faye past Liberian goalkeeper Louis Crayton after 37 minutes.
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