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How Women Ended Liberia’s Civil War: Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace

Posted on February 4, 2024

By 2003, the Liberian Civil War had been raging for 14 years, over 200,000 people had died and one in three people had been displaced. Originally founded in 1822, Liberia began as a colony for emancipated American slaves.

Posted in African ProtestsTagged Africa, civil rights, Liberia, protest, women's rights

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