Number: RS22202
Title: Liberia's Post-War Transition: Key Issues
Authors: Nicolas Cook, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division 
Abstract: 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.
Pages: 6
Date: July 20, 2005