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Reliefweb
April 19, 2018
AMY NOEL TACHCO (United States) said the peacekeeping mission in Liberia had made an invaluable contribution to peace and security. After a brutal war, a comprehensive peace agreement finally produced a calm environment that had led to the arrival of UNMIL, which had been able to achieve soÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 10, 2018
Their action, as well as the pressures mounted by ECOWAS leaders, led to the signing of the 2003 Comprehensive Peace Agreement. ... Liberian women's political activism continued in the aftermath of the Accra peace accord through the period leading to 2005 elections, which brought Ellen JohnsonÃâà...
ReliefWeb
April 7, 2018
Their action paved the way for negotiations taking place in Ghana, where a delegation of about 200 Liberian women staged a sit-in at the presidential palace and applied ... Their action, as well as the pressures mounted by ECOWAS leaders, led to the signing of the 2003 Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
Sierra Leone Times
April 6, 2018
On a bright, sunny day in January this year, Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf turned over power to George Weah, a decorated soccer star, ... The Comprehensive Peace Agreement, signed by President Taylor and leaders of all warring factions and political parties on August 18, 2003 in Accra,Ãâà...
Front Page Africa
March 26, 2018
“On behalf of the 16,178 UNPOL from over 16 countries who came to Liberia in 2003, we also want to honor 21 UNPOL who lost their lives while they were trying ... “It can be recalled, on 18th of August 2003, a Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) was signed in Accra, Ghana which brought to an end aÃâà...
ReliefWeb
February 18, 2018
There was comfort, and familiarity, in applying a model akin to the earlier Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) of 2005, which prior to South Sudan's ... Beyond South Sudan, power sharing agreements were attempted in South Africa after apartheid, Liberia after its civil war, Kenya following the disputedÃâà...
Front Page Africa
November 15, 2017
According to a statement from the Senate Press Bureau, the retreat was aimed at strengthening democracy and its relevant Liberian institutions and consolidating peace in the country. The Senate statement reads: “In doing so, the Senate recalls that Liberia was plunged into war with itself for 14 yearsÃâà...
Front Page Africa
October 22, 2017
Monrovia – When jurors in a U.S. Federal Courthouse in the city of Brotherly Love found former Liberian rebel commander Mohammed Jabbateh, aka ... The TRC was favored over a war tribunal during 2003's Accra Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) as the best solution to healing the country's 14Ãâà...
Mail & Guardian
October 12, 2017
Peace did not return to the fragile country until 2003, when President Taylor, in a nod to the Accra Comprehensive Peace Agreement, resigned in 2003 amid an Interpol arrest warrant for war crimes committed as he led the Revolutionary United Front rebel force in neighbouring Sierra Leone. He is nowÃâà...
Front Page Africa
October 3, 2017
LIBERIA AS COUNTRY CANNOT AFFORD TO REVERSE the gains made over the years and any attempt by any politicians or political parties that brew tension should be condemned. FOR DECADES PRIOR TO THE SIGNING OF A Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 2003, Liberia suffered one ofÃâà...
Global News Network
August 20, 2017
This article also provides fresh insights and collection of reflections how we as people of Liberia got this far and the role played by international partners not forgotten the significant influences of our Liberian mothers who took the bull by the horn to force former war-lords and politicians to affix theirÃâà...
UN News Centre
June 27, 2017
In spite of “remarkable” progress in Liberia since the signing of the comprehensive peace agreement in 2003, the presence of challenges that risk a ... Further, noting the gradual strengthening of the country's human rights capacity, Mr. Zarif urged the Liberian human rights commission to intensify its effortsÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
December 31, 1999
Klein is also quoted as saying that though UNMIL has helped to restore peace in Liberia that was once considered a failed state, its people are yet to enjoy the dividends of peace as corruption, poverty, native and Americo-Liberian divide, coupled with tribal division, continue to confront their social lives.
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