Much was read into the absence of some of Nigeria's neighbours - Presidents Charles Taylor of Liberia and Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso (both of whom Nigeria accuses of backing the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone) plus President Paul Biya from Cameroon whose country continues to pursue claims against Abuja for the Bakassi Peninsula...
Vol 40 No 6 |
- SIERRA LEONE
Some in Monrovia suggest that the Sam ‘Mosquito’ Bockarie wing backed by Liberia's President Charles Taylor sees Sankoh as little more than a useful pawn in the negotiating game...
The voters’ mood when they elected President Charles Taylor in July 1997 was summed up in a slogan: ‘He killed my ma he killed my pa but I will vote for him...
The frequent visits of convicted fraudster Nico Shefer and Fred Rundle former Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging spokesman to President Charles Taylor in Monrovia have attracted the attention of officials monitoring the United Nations arms embargo against the rebel Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone...
Vol 40 No 2 |
- SIERRA LEONE
The operation was a replica of Operation Octopus the 1995 invasion of Monrovia by Charles Taylor and his National Patriotic Front of Liberia...
Among others Ghana Nigeria Sierra Leone Britain and the United States believe Liberian President Charles Taylor has trained and armed the brutally effective rebels of Sierra Leone’s Revolutionary United Front...
Again the Anglophone-Francophone fault line was tested: Nigeria Ghana and Sierra Leone backed the Ecomog intervention while Côte d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso covertly supported the fight against Ecomog forces by Charles Taylor’s National Patriotic Front of Liberia...
We hear human rights activists in Kenya Liberia Nigeria Togo and Ghana are already preparing charge sheets against several past and current leaders: Daniel arap Moi Charles Taylor Gen...
Gadaffi’s key allies in English-speaking West Africa are Liberia’s Charles Taylor and Ghana’s Jerry Rawlings who have accepted material support but have not been as constant as Gadaffi would like...
The documents claim Charles Taylor plus fighters from Gambia and Guinea were also trained...
Vol 39 No 18 |
- SIERRA LEONE
Many Sierra Leoneans believe that they come from elements in Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia government and Blaise Compaoré's regime in Burkina Faso...