Amos Sawyer, Liberia’s former interim president, died at the age of 76.
He was a well-known politician who served as interim president in the 1990s as part of efforts to put an end to the deadly war waged by now-detained former President Charles Taylor.
During the four-year interim period, Taylor and his NPFL rebels refused to recognize Sawyer’s leadership and barred him from leaving Monrovia.
Sawyer, a university professor and political science lecturer in Liberia after the war, was the chairman of the Governance Commission.
BBC
