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2012 in Liberia
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Events in the year 2012 in Liberia.
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Incumbents
- President: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
- Vice President: Joseph Boakai
- Chief Justice: Johnnie Lewis (until September 10),[1] then Francis S. Korkpor, Sr. (as Chief Justice Ad Interim)[2]
Events
- January 16 – President Sirleaf takes her second oath of office after being re-elected in 2011.[3]
- March 30 – Former warlord George Boley is deported from the United States back to Liberia.[4]
- April 26 – Former President Charles Taylor is found guilty on 11 counts of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Sierra Leone Civil War.[5][6]
- May 2 – Ambassador Jeremiah Sulunteh presents his letters of credence to United States President Barack Obama.[7]
- May 30 – Former President Charles Taylor is sentenced to 50 years in prison by the Special Court for Sierra Leone.[8]
- June 28 – Vice President Joseph Boakai launches the 2012 Comprehensive Food Security And Nutrition Survey in Paynesville.[9]
- July 20 – A bill sponsored by Bong County Senator Jewel Taylor seeking to felonize same-sex marriage is passed unanimously through the Senate.[10]
- July 26 – Historian Dr. D. Elwood Dunn serves as the national Independence Day orator.[11]
- September 10 – Chief Justice Johnnie Lewis resigns due to poor health.[1]
- September 13 – Mae Azango, along with three other journalists, is awarded the 2012 CPJ International Press Freedom Award.[12]
- September 14 – At the Summer Paralympics in London, James Siaffa becomes the first Paralympian to represent Liberia in any sport, in the men's 82.5 kg powerlifting event.[13][14]
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Deaths
- May 14 – Burgess Carr, Liberian-born religious leader, in Lawrenceville, Georgia, U. S. (b. 1935)[15]
- June 8 – Tom Kamara, journalist, in Brussels, Belgium (b. 1949)[16]
References
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