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Liberia’s Post-War Transition: Key Issues (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date July 20, 2005
Report Number RS22202
Report Type Report
Authors Nicolas Cook, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
Summary:

Liberia appears on course to hold elections in October 2005, a key goal of a peace accord signed in August 2003. It ended Liberia's second civil war in a decade, and led to the current post-war transition process, which is U.S.-aided. Liberia's security situation is stable but subject to periodic volatility. Humanitarian conditions are improving. Progress on governance has been mixed. The case of Liberia's former president, Charles Taylor, a war crimes indictee living in exile in Nigeria, remains unresolved. This periodically updated report augments CRS Report RL32243 , Liberia: Transition to Peace . It contains further background on the topics discussed below.