Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor

Freetown's temporary spot in the media circus just might stir up some bankable interest in the country Jonah hoped but he predicted a long slog against the rebel Revolutionary United Front its allies from the ousted Koroma junta and what he says are thousands of fighters loyal to President Charles Taylor in neighbouring Liberia...

Among the Anglophones Liberia's President Charles Taylor is most worried by Nigeria's moves...

By the same token the victory of Charles Taylor in Liberia last July was a major diplomatic victory for Blaise Compaoré whom Abuja sees as a problem...

President Charles Taylor's government in Liberia sent a delegation in late January to Abuja to complain about alleged Ecomog complicity with the Kamajors...

While he doesn't face a regional alliance against him of the sort that ousted Mobutu Sese Seko regional governments view his military regime with a mixture of frustration and alarm; they (including new friends such as Ghana's President Jerry Rawlings and Liberia's Charles Taylor) regard its project to oust Koroma as perverse costly and likely to end in fiasco...

The investigation into their murder and apparent torture (their bodies were found bound and half burnt on 30 November) is the first major human rights test for President Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Party government...

Many of the junta recruits speak Liberian-style pidgin English suggesting the RUF's links with Charles Taylor's fighters are still active...

Its claimed success in Liberia involved Abuja reversing its previous antipathy towards Charles Taylor leader of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) and striking a deal with him as the warlord with the most guns and the most money...

The protagonists Charles Taylor's NPFL and Samuel Doe's Armed Forces of Liberia escalated the conflict despite peace accords signed in Freetown in May-June 1990...

If Koroma wants tactical lessons he need only call his neighbouring head of state in Monrovia Charles Ghankay Taylor...

5 per cent commission on a one-year term contract recently allocated to President Charles Taylor's government of Liberia from which it will net a total of $800 000...

Koroma may be succeeding: President Charles Taylor in neighbouring Liberia has come out strongly against Ecomog's use of Robertsfield Airport as the staging post for its bombing raids...

Under President Charles Taylor Liberia has quickly showed symptoms of instability...