Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor

Both RUF leader Foday Sankoh and Liberia's President Charles Taylor had military training in Libya during the 1980s...

Hyman (in letter Hyman refers to President Charles Taylor's 'high intelligence' and 'charismatic leadership qualities')...

President Charles Taylor's 15 March order closing down two independent radio stations - Swiss-funded Star Radio and the Catholic-run Radio Veritas - may be linked to embarrassing reports emerging about the training of Revolutionary United Front fighters at Gbatala base in Kakata about 50 kilometres north of Monrovia...

In the meantime the real alarms are sounding in Sierra Leone where President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah looks likely to lose his tenuous grip on power once more giving way to a Foday Sankoh presidency underwritten by neighbouring President Charles Taylor in Liberia...

Some fear that President Charles Taylor of Liberia will back Sankoh's rebels in a new assault on the relatively unscathed diamond fields in Tonga further south beside the Liberian border triggering new clashes between the RUF and the Kamajor civil defence groups close to deputy Defence Minister Hinga Norman...

Pushing Sankoh and co The job now is to put pressure on Corporal Foday Sankoh's Revolutionary United Front and on his sponsors presidents Charles Taylor in Liberia and Blaise Compaoré in Burkina Faso to comply with the peace accord...

Officers have long complained about lives lost in Compaoré's operations in support of Liberian leader Charles Taylor...

Many of President Charles Taylor's arms suppliers (a UN arms embargo is still in force against Liberia) also supply União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola and the Interahamwé...

Diamond-driven The agreement calculates that RUF leaders such as Sankoh and Sam Bockarie and their sponsors - Liberia's President Charles Taylor and Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaoré - have more to gain by cooperating with regional power Nigeria and the UN than by continuing their war against the Kabbah government and Sierra Leone's civilians...

Britain's 23 July expulsion of senior Liberian diplomat Gerald Cooper is an early blow to President Charles Taylor's efforts to improve relations with the West (see Sierra Leone Feature)...