Side by side
Liberia and Sierra Leone compared
Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.
26 July 1847 — The settlement constitutes itself as the Republic of Liberia
- Shared indicators
- 39
- Domains
- 9
- Crossed events
- 3
- Data through
- 2026-08-10
The figures, side by side
Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.
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Entangled histories
3 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.
- 23 March 1991
Civil war begins
The Revolutionary United Front under Foday Sankoh, backed by Liberia's Charles Taylor, invaded from Liberia, beginning an eleven-year civil war marked by atrocities and funded by 'blood diamonds'.
War & Rupture · from the Sierra Leone chronicle · One-party rule, civil war, and recovery · The Sierra Leone Civil War (1991–2002), Foday Sankoh
- August 2003
Taylor resigns; Accra peace agreement
With rebels besieging Monrovia and an international indictment over Sierra Leone hanging over him, Charles Taylor resigned and went into exile; a comprehensive peace agreement in Accra ended the war and a UN mission, UNMIL, deployed.
War & Rupture · from the Liberia chronicle · The civil wars and Charles Taylor · Second Liberian Civil War (1999–2003), Charles Taylor, Second Liberian Civil War
- 26 April 2012
Taylor convicted of war crimes
The Special Court for Sierra Leone convicted Charles Taylor of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sierra Leone and sentenced him to 50 years — the first former head of state convicted by an international tribunal since Nuremberg.
War & Rupture · from the Liberia chronicle · The civil wars and Charles Taylor · Sierra Leone: Landmark Conviction of Liberian Ex-President, Special Court sentences former Liberian leader Charles Taylor to 50 years in prison