Sygma
01 January, 1990
May-July. Refugees climb on trucks to leave the warzone, 20 km from Monrovia. Founded as a haven for freed American slaves, present-day Liberia is torn by civil war as rebel groups fight each other and the government for power, victimizing the population in the process.
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