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Liberia Airways is 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 Cote D’Ivoire 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 An-24 Mi-8.Charles Taylor (former leader of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) former president of the Republic of Liberia and convicted war criminal) played a critical personal role in the demise of the company.