Company security teams can quickly turn into militias as did that of the Oriental Timber Company under ex-President Charles Ghankay Taylor...
Exiled warlord Charles Taylor and Jewel Howard-Taylor have divorced paving the way for a greater public role for the popular Jewel...
US officials are determined that Charles Taylor must appear in the UN-backed Special Court in Sierra Leone to answer charges of crimes against humanity during the civil war...
He's from Charles Taylor's one-time stronghold of Bong County and studied in the USA...
Vol 46 No 24 |
- BURKINA FASO
France has since shielded Compaoré from investigation and sanction by the United Nations and others for his role with Liberia's warlord and ex-President Charles Ghankay Taylor in arming and training the murderous Revolutionary United Front rebels in Sierra Leone...
Vol 46 No 24 |
- SIERRA LEONE
The Freetown government is particularly anxious to see Liberian ex-President-cum-warlord Charles Taylor brought to court...
Few may be ready to fight but the warlord Charles Taylor had only 150 men when he invaded the country in 1990 starting seven years of fighting that brought him to the presidency in the disputed 1997 election...
The NPP associated with the exiled warlord-turned-president Charles Taylor took sixth place in the presidential race with less than 5 per cent...
Vol 46 No 20 |
- SIERRA LEONE
Liberia's ex-President Charles Taylor is plotting his way back to power from Nigeria undeterred by 18 indictments by Sierra Leone's Special Court...
Three spectres haunt the polls: a return to war by dissatisfied losers; more of the state looting and corruption that has defined Liberian politics for the past 50 years; and meddling by ousted President Charles Taylor from Nigeria where he was exiled under the 2003 peace deal that also set the electoral timetable...
The anti-corruption and mercenary conventions require openness to international monitoring while accession to the ICC means that if exiled leader Charles Taylor returns home Liberia's government would have to hand him over to the ICC or its affiliate the Special Court in Sierra Leone which wants to try him for war crimes...
The rebellion led by Charles Taylor which sparked seven years of civil war in 1990 started in Nimba...