Vol 47 No 4 | 
            - CÔTE D'IVOIRE
	      Gbagbo's hired Liberians  known as 'Lima' (the international call sign for 'L'  for Liberia)  were the Movement for Democracy in Liberia when they fought in Liberia against Charles Taylor  the then President  in 2003...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Company security teams can quickly turn into militias  as did that of the Oriental Timber Company under ex-President Charles Ghankay Taylor...
   Exiled warlord Charles Taylor and Jewel Howard-Taylor have divorced  paving the way for a greater public role for the popular Jewel...
 US officials are determined that Charles Taylor must appear in the UN-backed Special Court in Sierra Leone to answer charges of crimes against humanity during the civil war...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	       He's from Charles Taylor's one-time stronghold of Bong   County and studied in the USA...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 46 No 24 | 
            - BURKINA FASO
	     France has since shielded Compaoré from investigation and sanction by the United Nations and others for his role with Liberia's warlord and ex-President Charles Ghankay Taylor in arming and training the murderous Revolutionary United Front rebels in Sierra Leone...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 46 No 24 | 
            - SIERRA LEONE
	     The Freetown government is particularly anxious to see Liberian ex-President-cum-warlord Charles Taylor brought to court...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Few may be ready to fight but the warlord Charles Taylor had only 150 men when he invaded the country in 1990  starting seven years of fighting that brought him to the presidency in the disputed 1997 election...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	        The NPP  associated with the exiled warlord-turned-president Charles Taylor  took sixth place in the presidential race  with less than 5 per cent...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 46 No 20 | 
            - SIERRA LEONE
	     Liberia's ex-President Charles Taylor is plotting his way back to power from Nigeria  undeterred by 18 indictments by Sierra Leone's Special Court...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Three spectres haunt the polls: a return to war by dissatisfied losers; more of the state looting and corruption that has defined Liberian politics for the past 50 years; and meddling by ousted President Charles Taylor from Nigeria  where he was exiled under the 2003 peace deal that also set the electoral timetable...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     The anti-corruption and mercenary conventions require openness to international monitoring while accession to the ICC means that if exiled leader Charles Taylor returns home  Liberia's government would have to hand him over to the ICC or its affiliate  the Special Court in Sierra Leone  which wants to try him for war crimes...