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Liberia

Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor

Date of Birth: 28 January 1948
Place of Birth: Arthington


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Under new management

Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade was busy with his election campaign so Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo suggested a mediator - Nigerian ex-President Ibrahim Babangida with whom Conté shared a common enemy the Liberian warlord Charles Taylor...


Referee in a tug-of-war

The Speaker of the House of Representatives Edwin Snowe erstwhile son-in-law of the warlord-President Charles Taylor was also forced from office...

Snowe and other supporters of Charles Taylor whose war-crimes trial in the Hague reopens in April work hard to undermine the government...


Hinga's death hits home

Sam Bockarie Sankoh's psychopathic field commander was murdered in Liberia the same year reportedly by then-President Charles Ghankay Taylor's men...


Snowe white-out

Snowe is warlord and ex-President Charles Taylor's son-in-law and has helped to block laws proposed by the government...


Economy up, politics down

The son of gaoled former President Charles Ghankay Taylor 'Chuckie' Taylor (also known as Roy Belfast Jr...

She has tried to rise above politics but was stung when Charles Taylor's ex-wife Bong County Senator Jewel Howard-Taylor expressed regret for having supported the President's campaign...


The signs are rusting

The excitement that greeted Liberian ex-President Charles Taylor's arrival at the Special Court (AC Vol 47 No 8) has all but disappeared...


Taylor's trajectories

As daylight faded the United Nations helicopter carrying Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor came in low and fast over the hills of Freetown depositing the Liberian warlord president-turned-fugitive inside the compound of the Special Court for Sierra Leone...


Courting disaster

When Liberia's ex-President Charles Ghankay Taylor finally arrived at the Special Court for Sierra Leone he joined nine other indicted war criminals both rebel commanders whom he is accused of funding and militia leaders that they fought against...

In international law this is true but the Court indicted a sitting head of state Charles Taylor...


The accused

Two have died: Foday Sankoh in gaol Sam Bockarie killed in Liberia some say on Charles Taylor's orders...


Not all necessary powers

Gbagbo's hired Liberians known as 'Lima' (the international call sign for 'L' for Liberia) were the Movement for Democracy in Liberia when they fought in Liberia against Charles Taylor the then President in 2003...


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