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Dropping Liberia's Charles Taylor and the planned troop withdrawal from Central African Republic will ease concern in the West's Africa departments but some of Gadaffi's other friendships are problematic notably with Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe...

Italian police investigating Leonid Minin who was a business ally of Liberian President Charles Taylor and now faces charges of arms and diamond smuggling have identified payments between Minin and Avient Ltd's British bank account...

Welcoming the new United States Ambassador to Monrovia John Blaney on 3 October Liberian President Charles Taylor ­ never one to miss an opportunity for some good publicity ­ called for curbs on West African mercenaries...

Liberian leader Charles Taylor highly skilled at profiting from instability can hope to see some pressure on his regime lifted as international attention focuses on Iraq and the regional focus moves next door...

With so many peace initiatives competing for the international community's scarce resources Liberia's peace process needs to keep up its momentum and President Charles Taylor's critics need to speed things up before Nigeria gets embroiled in elections and the United States and Britain get stuck into Iraq...

Despite all his years of support for Liberian President Charles Taylor the Liberian opposition turned out in force for talks in Ouagadougou last month...

Compaoré is still recovering from the exposure of official efforts to cover up the December 1998 killing of journalist Norbert Zongo and is vulnerable to criticism for his support for Liberian hard man Charles Taylor...

The British-based Mano River Resources (close to Liberian President Charles Taylor's political circle in Monrovia) has resumed exploration in Kono District and talks of turning a new kimberlite discovery into the country's first modern hard-rock diamond mine...

But relations between Conté and Liberian President Charles Taylor are almost on a war footing...

A queue of enemies is closing in on President Charles Taylor who is trying to see them off with fire-power and politics...