Alhaji Garxim Varmuyan Kromah (11 February 1953 – 18 January 2022) was a

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faction during the Liberian Civil War. He was a moderate

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from Liberia and member of the Mandingo ethnic group from Tusu Town, Quardu Gboni District, Lofa County. He attended St. Patrick's High School (1973). Kromah earned a B.A. from the University of Liberia in 1977. In 1982, he graduated with an M.A. in Communications (Journalism and Public Affairs) from

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Kromah was a special assistant to the Vice-President and later Assistant Information Minister during the regime of

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William Tolbert before becoming Director General of the Liberian Broadcasting System in 1982 and Minister of Information in 1984 under President

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and denied the government's crackdown leading to some deaths at the University of Liberia in 1984. He went into exile in June 1990, months after the

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began in Liberia. He later co-founded the United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy (ULIMO) a resistance armed group that forced Charles Taylor to a negotiating table that eventually brought tangible political solution to the Liberian conflict. ULIMO split into two factions in 1994, with Kromah leading one faction known as

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. Its power base was in northwestern Liberia, in and around Lofa County. After the war ended, Kromah contested the 19 July 1997

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representing the All Liberia Coalition Party (ALCOP). He placed third, winning 4.02% of the vote.Elections in Liberia
African Elections Database. Kromah ran again as the party's presidential candidate in the 11 October 2005

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in which he was again defeated, receiving 2.8% of the vote.

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