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Voters in Liberia will elect a new president in a run-off election between vice-president Joseph Boakai and former footballer George Weah. Weah is elected with 60% of the vote.
2017-12-26

Voters in Liberia go to the polls to elect members to the country's House of Representatives and to replace President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who is constitutionally barred from seeking a third term.
2017-10-10

The former Liberian President Charles Taylor arrives in the United Kingdom to serve the remainder of a 50-year sentence after becoming the first head of state to be convicted of war crimes since World War II.
2013-10-15

Voters in Liberia go to the polls for the second round of a presidential election, with the incumbent President, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, likely to be re-elected.
2011-11-8

Voters in Liberia go to the polls for a general election with current President and recent Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf facing a tight race.
2011-10-11

The Norwegian Nobel Committee announce the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, with the prize being shared between the President of Liberia Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee and Yemeni women's rights activist Tawakkul Karman.
2011-10-7

The lawyer for former Liberian President Charles Taylor walks out of court protesting that his client's rights to a fair trial had been abused.
2011-02-8

Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf dissolves her cabinet.
2010-11-3

Actress Mia Farrow gives evidence in the trial of former President of Liberia Charles Taylor before the United Nations Special Court for Sierra Leone.
2010-08-9

Charles McArther Emmanuel, son of President of Liberia Charles Taylor, is ordered to pay more than $22 million (£14 million) to five people tortured during the Second Liberian Civil War.
2010-02-6