Enoch Dogolea; Liberian Leader

Enoch Dogolea, 48, Liberia’s vice president who spent the 1980s in exile. President Charles Taylor ordered an autopsy to quell any speculation that Dogolea had been poisoned or otherwise suffered foul play. Dogolea, who in the 1980s went into exile as an opposition campaigner against the rule of former President Samuel Doe, later joined Taylor’s fledgling rebel group, which fought a brutal seven-year civil war against several factions. Relative calm was restored in 1996 and Taylor won elections a year later. For nearly all of the war, Dogolea served as Taylor’s deputy, and then became vice president immediately after the election. On Saturday in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, where he was being treated for a suspected stroke.