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Conflict Africa

Liberian Civil Wars

1989 CE – 2003 CE · 14 years

Two devastating civil wars killed over 250,000 people and displaced a million more in the small West African nation. Warlord Charles Taylor's invasion in 1989 triggered the first war, and his presidency as an elected leader sparked the second. He was later convicted of war crimes by an international tribunal.

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Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • Various factions (Charles Taylor's NPFL, LURD, MODEL)
  • Liberian Government

Key moments

Defining events in the Liberian Civil Wars.

  1. 1989 NPFL invasion
  2. 1990, 1996, 2003 Battles of Monrovia

Elsewhere in Africa at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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3000 BCE – still standing

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Serengeti National Park

3000 BCE – still standing

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Angola

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Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1989 CE and 2003 CE.

1990 CE Rwandan Civil War & Genocide 1991 CE Somali Civil War 1991 CE Sierra Leone Civil War 1992 CE US Intervention in Somalia (UNOSOM) 1993 CE Burundi Civil War

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Cristo Rei of Dili Landmark · Oceania 1996 CE – still standing Yugoslavia Polity · Europe 1918 CE – 1992 CE Deng Xiaoping Figure · Sichuan, China 1904 CE – 1997 CE Eritrean–Ethiopian War Conflict · Middle East 1998 CE – 2000 CE Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque Landmark · Middle East 2001 CE – still standing Czechoslovakia Polity · Europe 1918 CE – 1992 CE
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