Samuel Kanyon Doe was president of Liberia after staging a violent 1980 coup against William Tolbert who was assassinated. He ...

In 1989, while he was 30 years old, Osaghae joined a Nigerian delegation of professors sent to Monrovia to instruct Liberia’s ...

I write about the funerals of Liberian former President Samuel Doe and his wife, former First Lady Nancy Doe .

Hundreds of people gathered Friday in rural Liberia for the state funeral of authoritarian former president Samuel Doe 35 ...

The man who is believed to have captured and killed former Liberian President Samuel Doe at the start of the country's civil war in 1990 has made his long-awaited appearance before the country's ...

Liberia's President Joseph Nyumah Boakai is urging citizens across the country's fifteen counties to let go of the past and embrace peace for the country's growth."Let us reject bitterness, let us ...

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 ...

When 28-year-old Sgt. Samuel Doe and a few privates seized power accidentally in 1980 and then murdered the cabinet, some revolutionary meaning could be attributed.

Liberian security forces put down a coup attempt Wednesday led by a former junta member, President Samuel Doe announced in a nationwide radio broadcast. The government troops ”exchanged gunfire ...

Lydia Sackie still remembers the day she saw her parents being dragged away by Samuel Doe’s soldiers during Liberia’s first civil war, in the 1990s. It was the last time she saw them. Winner ...