Vol 43 No 9 | LIBERIA Rebels without a plan 3rd May 2002 Guinean-backed rebels threaten Taylor and the UN is set to renew sanctions against him A queue of enemies is closing in on President Charles Taylor, who is trying to see them off with fire-power and politics. As the veteran opposition leader Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, th...
Vol 43 No 9 | LIBERIA UN gumshoes in Taylorland 3rd May 2002 President Charles Taylor, expecting United Nations sanctions against Liberia to be extended, despatched his skillful Foreign Minister, Monie Captan, to New York in late April to lo...
Vol 42 No 22 | LIBERIA Old habits die hard 9th November 2001 A damning new UN report accuses Charles Taylor's regime of keeping ties with the RUF and busting sanctions Against all tradition, President Charles Taylor has turned taciturn. He and his advisors have made almost no denial of or other reaction to a long list of serious and well-document...
Vol 42 No 22 | LIBERIA Flag-waving, gun-running, all the conveniences 9th November 2001 Despite all its domestic troubles, Liberia is host to the world's second-largest maritime open-registry, better known as a flag of convenience. Until 1994, when it was overtaken by...
Vol 42 No 16 | LIBERIASIERRA LEONE Fuelling conflict 10th August 2001 Poisoned by Liberia's support for the rebel Revolutionary United Front, relations between President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah's government and President Charles Taylor face a new test. T...
Vol 41 No 15 | LIBERIA Cross-border crisis 21st July 2000 Guinea and Sierra Leone are paying back the Taylor regime for its rebel sponsorship. But their operations could spin out of control Self-proclaimed guerrilla maestro Charles Taylor is in a bind. The border wars between Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, stoked by the Liberian President, are rebounding on his gov...
Vol 41 No 13 | LIBERIASIERRA LEONE Godfather to the rebels 23rd June 2000 Dealing with Charles Taylor is key to any peace settlement. The question is, how? The latest spate of sabre rattling between Monrovia and Freetown signals the final unravelling of the Sierra Leone peace accord signed in Lomé last July. The governments of ...
Vol 41 No 7 | LIBERIASIERRA LEONE Radio silence 31st March 2000 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 r...
Vol 40 No 16 | LIBERIABRITAIN Gerald's jeep 6th August 1999 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.
Vol 40 No 4 | LIBERIA Taylorland under siege 19th February 1999 The victorious warlord hasn't made the transition to civilian politics The voters’ mood, when they elected President Charles Taylor in July 1997, was summed up in a slogan: ‘He killed my ma, he killed my pa but I will vote for him!’....