Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor

Africa Confidential has obtained a recording of a phone call of Charles Taylor giving political advice to his supporters in Liberia...

Alain Werner Director of the NGO Civitas Maxima which builds legal cases against alleged Liberian war criminals said 'Charles Taylor should be put on trial for the numerous war crimes he committed in Liberia whilst destroying this country during 14 years...

Former President Charles Taylor who is serving a life sentence in the UK after conviction of crimes against humanity by the Special Court for Sierra Leone has past links to Tyler his former wife and current Senator Jewel Howard-Taylor Charles Brumskine (a lawyer and close advisor of Taylor's) and Benoni Urey a candidate who may stand a reasonable chance in a possible run-off against either Boakai or Weah...

A close confidant of ex-President and now convicted war criminal Charles Taylor Woewiyu was detained in the USA in 2014 on charges relating to his citizenship application including failing to disclose his affiliation to Taylor...

Diendéré also holds the secrets of Compaoré's relations with Libya's late Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi and Liberia's gaoled ex-President Charles Taylor...

Links with former President and warlord Charles Taylor have proven damaging for Urey's international image...

Stephen's sanguine treatment of the appalling excesses of Charles Taylor and his followers including cannibalism saw him excoriated for supposed racism and may have cost him a book prize but he was completely vindicated on the world stage when Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission called him as an expert witness in 2008...

Factional leaders such as Charles Taylor cynically partook on a perversion of this last atrocity to gain legitimacy and broad support in the now corrupted Liberian society...

Earlier Stephen was an expert witness at the opening of the trial of former President Charles Taylor at the Special Court for Sierra Leone at the Hague in January 2008...

The state sponsors of war and terror have been eclipsed: Gadaffi is dead Charles Taylor is in gaol and Compaoré in exile...

Despite the Special Court for Sierra Leone's conviction in 2012 of ex-President Charles Taylor a lot of guilty men are still free...

France which had protected him from prosecution over his close ties with convicted war criminal Charles Taylor and the bloody insurgencies in Liberia and Sierra Leone was reluctantly looking for a new regional ally...