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Liberian Coup of 1980

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
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Monrovia

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Samuel Doe's overthrow of William Tolbert, ending 133 years of Americo-Liberian rule.

Belligerents1

Liberia

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Liberian Coup of 1980 (1980). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/liberian-coup-of-1980 · Sources & methodology