Chocolate City, Liberia

Chocolate City
Town and suburb
Chocolate City

Location in Liberia

Coordinates: LR 6°19′57″N 10°45′26″W / 6.33250°N 10.75722°W / 6.33250; -10.75722Coordinates: LR 6°19′57″N 10°45′26″W / 6.33250°N 10.75722°W / 6.33250; -10.75722
Country  Liberia
County Montserrado County
District Greater Monrovia
Time zone GMT (UTC+0)

Chocolate City is a town and central-northern suburb of Monrovia, Liberia. To the northeast is Samie Town. It contains the Elizabeth Blunt School and Francis Freeman Elementary School.[1][2]

During the Second Liberian Civil War in 1999-2003, the city was war torn,[3] and "rape, murder and plunder" happened every night in Chocolate City.[4] Hundreds of thousands of refugees hid in churches, schools and houses and many thousands died.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "A school named after me". BBC. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
  2. ↑ "Liberian Journal No 11". Society of African Missions. 2009. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
  3. ↑ Gbowee, Leymah; Mithers, Carol (13 September 2011). Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War. Beast Books. p. 170. ISBN 978-0-9842951-5-9. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
  4. 1 2 "A year after Liberia's bloody civil war". The Scotsman. 11 July 2004. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
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