2013 in Liberia

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Events in the year 2013 in Liberia.

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See also:	Other events of 2013 Timeline of Liberian history

Incumbents

• President: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
• Vice President: Joseph Boakai
• Chief Justice: Francis S. Korkpor, Sr.

Events

• February 11 – A Guinean plane crashes near Monrovia, killing 11 people, including Guineain army officer Lt. General Souleymane Kelefa Diallo. President Sirleaf declares a national day of mourning the next day, February 12.^[1]
• February 28 – Acting Monrovia Mayor Mary Broh resigns amidst controversy.^[2]
• April 18 – Senior Associate Justice Francis Korkpor is appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Liberia.^[3] Korkpor had been serving as Interim Chief Justice ever since Johnnie Lewis' resignation in September 2012.^[4]
• June 17 – Liberia makes its first appearance at a G8 summit, due to an invitation from British Prime Minister David Cameron to President Sirleaf.^[5]
• June 20 – Liberia sends its first deployment of 50 troops to Mali to join the United Nations peacekeeping mission.^[6]
• July 8 – President Sirleaf nominates 15 city mayors, including the renomination of Mary Broh as mayor of Monrovia, following her resignation in February.^[7][8]
• July 26 – Unity Party Chairman Varney Sherman serves as the national Independence Day orator, delivering his speech in Tubmanburg.^[9]
• August 17 – The Alternative National Congress launches after being certified with the National Elections Commission.^[10]
• August 21 – Rodney Sieh, publisher and editor-in-chief of the newspaper FrontPage Africa, is arrested. Sieh was arrested following a conviction of libel against Agricultural Minister Chris Toe by the Supreme Court, and subsequently being unable to pay the $1.5 million dollars dictated by the ruling.^[11]
• September 12 – President Sirleaf is awarded the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development by Indian President Pranab Mukherjee.^[12]
• September 29 – President Sirleaf makes a state visit to Costa Rica at the invitation of Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla which lasts until October 1.^[13]
• November 8 – Rodney Sieh is released from prison.^[14]
• Full Date Unknown
  • Joshua Milton Blahyi, better known as General Butt Naked, publishes his memoir The Redemption of an African Warlord.^[15]

Deaths

• April 1 – Moses Blah, former President of Liberia (2003), in Monrovia (b. 1947)^[16]
• May 19 – Michael Kpakala Francis, Catholic prelate, in Monrovia (b. 1936)^[17]
• November 25 – Musue Noha Haddad, journalist, in Monrovia (b. 1968)^[18]