No such issues afflict Benoni Urey who until December was subject to a United Nations' travel ban and assets freeze because of his past relationship with former President and now convicted war criminal Charles Taylor (AC Vol 43 No 9 UN gumshoes in Taylorland)...
Soon after taking office in 2006 Johnson-Sirleaf promised to govern 'differently decisively breaking from the past' after the brutal regimes of President Charles Taylor and Samuel Doe as well as 100 years of Americo-Liberian hegemony when the country was dominated by a handful of families...
Vol 55 No 7 |
- BURKINA FASO
Liberia and Sierra Leone where Compaoré backed convicted war criminal Charles Taylor and the late rebel leader Foday Sankoh are not viable options while Chadian ex-President Hissène Habré's trial in Senegal shows that is not a possible destination...
The group also had connections to the Krahn-dominated Movement for Democracy in Liberia (Model) one of the militias that fought ex-President Charles Taylor shortly before he went into exile in Nigeria...
Its many Malian critics are quick to point out that the country of ancient empires is not a broken-down failed state like Liberia after Charles Taylor...
including convicted ex-President Charles Taylor's former ally Prince Yormie Johnson in Nimba County...
One such is Cyril Allen former Chairman of the National Patriotic Party of ex-President Charles Taylor now in prison in Britain (AC Vol 54 No 20 Taylor goes down alone) Allen was Taylor's Finance Minister and as a result the UN put him under a travel ban and an assets freeze in 2004...
Vol 54 No 20 |
- LIBERIA
- AFRICA
The Special Court for Sierra Leone's confirmation on 26 September of the 50-year sentence for war crimes of Charles Taylor the former President of Liberia comes as African governments are demanding far-reaching changes in the nascent system of international justice...
Vol 54 No 18 |
- SIERRA LEONE
It concluded that he was an ally and envoy of both Charles Ghankay Taylor the Liberian ex-President and warlord now serving 50 years for crimes against humanity and Foday Sankoh the bloodthirsty leader of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF)...
Burkinabè President Blaise Compaoré supported Charles Taylor and the RUF and had been close to its top officers including Bah...
Vol 54 No 17 |
- SIERRA LEONE
Bah a close ally of convicted mass murderer Charles Taylor faces charges of major human rights abuses in connection with the civil wars in Sierra Leone and Liberia...
Once Africa Confidential first revealed Bah's location lawyers and investigators familiar with the evidence before the Special Court on Sierra Leone – the tribunal which sentenced Charles Taylor to 50 years in prison – realised there was enough evidence against Bah in their archives to present to a court...