Liberia Timeline
A chronology of key events in Liberia's history. Part 2 - 1992 to 2007.
| 1992 | ECOMOG peacekeepers are attacked by NPFL forces in Monrovia, the Liberian capital. ECOMOG succeeds in pushing the NPFL out into the surrounding countryside. |
| 1993 | A tentative agreement towards a National Transitional Government fails. |
| 1994 | David Donald Kpormakpor becomes Chairman of the Council of State of the Liberian National Transitional Government (7 March). |
| 1995 | A ceasefire is agreed by warring factions. Wilton G. S. Sankawulo takes over as Chairman of the Council of State of the Liberian National Transitional Government (1 September). Other members of the Council include Ghankay Charles Taylor and Roosevelt Johnson. |
| 1996 | Ceasefire breaks down, fighting is reported around Monrovia (April). |
| ECOMOG peacekeepers begin disarmament of warring factions (August). | |
| Liberia's first (non-elected) woman leader, Ruth Sando Perry, takes over as Chairman of the Council of State of the Liberian National Transitional Government (3 September). | |
| 1997 | Following elections in July, Ghankay Charles Taylor of the National Patriotic Party (NPP) becomes president (2 August) with a landslide win. International observers declare the election 'free and fair' but opposition groups are still forcefully active. |
| 1999 | Liberia is accused by Nigeria and Ghana of giving support to United Front rebels in Sierra Leone. |
| After Guinea is accused of aiding rebel forces which attacked the border town of Voinjama, Guinea claims Liberian forces have crossed into its territory. | |
| 2000 | A "massive offensive" is initiated by Liberian forces against rebels (Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy, LURD) in the Lofa region to the north. |
| Taylor's government once again accused Guinea of shelling villages along the border. | |
| 2001 | Rampaging civil war results in borders with Sierra Leone and Guinea being closed. The Liberian government claims that Sierra Leonean rebel, Sam 'The Mosquito' Bockarie, has left the country. |
| 2002 | President Charles Taylor declares a state of emergency. |
| 2003 | Rebel forces approach the capital, by March they are only 10 km away. |
| President Charles Taylor is accused of war crimes over his support for rebel forces in Sierra Leone (June) – this overshadows ceasefire talks in Ghana. | |
| ECOWAS agrees to provide peacekeeping forces as rebel troops battle for control of the capital Monrovia. | |
| Charles Taylor hands over power to his deputy, Moses Zeh Blah (11 August). US troops arrive in Monrovia (President Bush insisted that Taylor had to leave the country before US personnel arrived). By October the US forces have been pulled out and 3,500 UN troops are deployed in the capital | |
| An interim National Transitional Government is formed, with the backing of rebel leaders, with Charles Gyude Bryant (Liberia Action Party) as Chairman (14 October). | |
| 2004 | Riots in Monrovia leave 14 dead. |
| 2005 | Africa's first elected head of state, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, is elected president (23 November). She is the first elected woman leader in Africa. |
| 2006 | Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of the Unity Party is inaugurated as president (16 January). |
| Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission is set up to investigate human rights abuses between 1979 and 2003 (21 February). Its three main goals are: to foster reconciliation and forgiveness, to provide assistance and aid to those who experienced human rights abuses, and to engender a national framework for truth and justice. | |
| Charles Taylor appears before a UN court in Sierra Leone charged with crimes against humanity (3 April). He pleads 'not guilty' to all charges. | |
| 2007 | Charles Taylor's war crimes trial begins in The Hague, Netherlands (June) |
Liberia Timeline Continued
• Part 1 - 1460s to 1990
Brief History of Liberia
• Part 1 - Colonization to Civil War
• Part 2 - Civil War to Present Day
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• Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
