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President Lansana Conté says Liberian President Charles Taylor is coordinating the operation which has killed more than 350 Guineans and exacerbated the regional effects of Sierra Leone's war...

Compaoré has skilfully deflected much of the opprobrium for supporting the RUF onto his old friend Charles Taylor now cast as regional pariah by the United States and Britain...

Compaoré's position may be more nuanced (his friend Charles Taylor was the first head of state to visit Gbagbo after his election)...

Fingers increasingly point at Burkina's Blaise Compaoré and Liberia's Charles Taylor as chief sponsors of the instability...

Liberia under President Charles Taylor is viewed as perhaps the world centre for laundering 'conflict diamonds' from Sierra Leone Angola and even Congo-Kinshasa...

This time they have Liberian and Burkinabè Presidents Charles Taylor and Blaise Compaoré in their sights...

Self-proclaimed guerrilla maestro Charles Taylor is in a bind...

The governments of President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and Charles Taylor are each accusing the other of preparing an invasion force...

Williams had been detained at Pademba Road Prison for disloyalty to Kabbah but have now been brought in to command pro-government forces; some are former RUF soldiers motivated more by opposition to RUF leader Corporal Foday Sankoh and RUF sponsor Charles Taylor than any loyalty to Kabbah...

Issa Sesay who opposed the UN hostage-taking and the Monrovia-based Commander Sam 'Maskita' Bockarie and Charles Taylor...

So he rejected calls from Liberia's President Charles Taylor for Sankoh to be taken to a 'safe country' and publicly insisted that his discussions with his fellow West African leaders on Sankoh's future had been misinterpreted by Lansana Kouyate the vacillating Executive Secretary of the Economic Community of West African States...

Some thought Sankoh like his ally Charles Taylor might persuade his country people that the only way to stop the war was to vote him into the presidency...

Not only is France the Western power best disposed towards Liberia's President Charles Taylor (he was treated to a lavish state visit to Paris two years ago) but French President Jacques Chirac is an enthusiastic ally of Burkinabè President Blaise Compaoré...