http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=515&ncid=723&e=10&u=/ap/20050208/ap_on_re_af/liberia_elections
Liberia's Presidential Polls Set for Oct.
Tue Feb 8, 3:19 AM ET
World - AP Africa
MONROVIA, Liberia - Presidential elections in newly peaceful Liberia
(news - web sites) will take place Oct. 11, the national electoral
body announced.
The election will mark the end of a two-year transition, led by Gyude
Bryant, after two main rebel groups, West African peace forces and
international pressure routed warlord Charles Taylor from power.
National Elections Commission Chairman Frances Johnson-Morris told
reporters on Monday that voter registration would run from April 25 to
May 21.
At least 41 candidates are hoping to contest the election, including
former soccer legend and FIFA player of the year George Weah.
Taylor first launched Liberia into conflict in 1989, leading an
insurgency that resulted in an eventual stalemate and his 1997
election as president. But civil war broke out again in 1999, when
rebels took up arms against him.
A peace deal was signed following Taylor's departure in August 2003,
and a 15,000-strong U.N. force now secures the peace. Some 70,000
fighters � including thousands of children � have been disarmed.
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