Liberia Airways Liberia Airways Liberia Airways was an airline based in Liberia. The company provided transportation assistance to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees during civil wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone, passenger and cargo services between and within Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Gambia, Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Niger, Burkina Faso, Benin, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo. At its peak in 1996-1997, Liberia Airways had several hundred employees, international routes to over a dozen of West African countries, and operated a small fleet of USSR-built aircraft Antonov An-26, Antonov
Gold Coast (British colony) the area was absorbed into the Gold Coast. There was, however, vocal opposition to the incorporation from some of the Ewe in southern British Togoland. On 6 March 1957, the Colony of Gold Coast gained independence as the country of Ghana. Gold Coast (British colony) The Gold Coast was a British colony on the Gulf of Guinea in west Africa from 1867 to its independence as the nation of Ghana in 1957. The first Europeans to arrive at the coast were the Portuguese in 1471. They encountered a variety of African kingdoms, some of which controlled substantial deposits of gold