Charles Taylor Liberia's new President paid the supreme compliment: 'But for the stern commitment of Ecowas we may still have been at war'...
The surprise was not Charles Taylor's victory in the 18 July elections but the scale of it: he won over three-quarters of the votes; his nearest rival Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf won less than 10 per cent (AC Vol 38 No 13)...
Vol 38 No 15 |
- SIERRA LEONE
James Jonah Tejan Kabbah's cabinet minister responsible for relations with the UN has claimed that the core of the RUF is Liberian and that the Freetown junta is in fact governed by Charles Taylor in Monrovia...
Could the United States stomach a Charles Taylor presidency...
Charles Taylor would have been in Monrovia in June 1990 just as easily as Kabila in Kinshasa had it not been for the US and its continuing support of Doe'...
Two frontrunners dominate the election campaign which started on 16 June: ex-Finance Minister and former United Nations Development Programme Africa Director Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and ex-warlord Charles Taylor...
The mid-January momentum was set going when Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia began to cooperate...
Charles Taylor promptly resigned from the Council appointing as his substitute Victoria Reffel and went off in search of resources...
The man who most wants to take control of Liberia by whatever means is Charles Taylor of the National Patriotic Front (NPFL)...
In the civil war most TWP members were thought to back Charles Taylor; the party's opposition to him is the main surprise of the preelection manoeuvres...
• The Liberia Unification Party (LUP) was founded by a popular teacher Gabriel Kpolleh; his death in the early days of the civil war was blamed by many on Charles Taylor (as was that of Jackson Doe the LAP's candidate in 1985)...
Vol 38 No 5 |
- SIERRA LEONE
Diplomats in Freetown compare him to Jonas Savimbi and Charles Taylor a warlord with a portable government...
All the signs are that Charles Taylor is once more in the ascendant...
United States' statistics indicate that annual Liberian diamond exports averaged US$300 million in 1990-94 and that Charles Taylor (National Patriotic Front of Liberia) could be handling over $75 mn...