The report of the United Nations Special Court in Freetown pointing to Liberian warlord Charles Taylor's involvement in anti-Conté plots was seen as vindicating Diallo's efforts...
Their central calculation is that what's good for Liberia's exiled warlord Charles Taylor will be bad for Guinea...
LIB officials said that around the time of the overthrow of the then President Charles Taylor in 2003 Saint-Yrian approached David Aim Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of LIB looking for a partner in a mining deal...
Charles Taylor Liberia's exiled warlord stands accused of crimes across the region...
Vol 46 No 9 |
- AFRICA
- MARKETS
Directors include Rilwanu Lukman formerly Secretary General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries and Nigeria's ex-Oil Minister; Egbert Imomoh former Deputy Managing Director of Shell in Nigeria; Guy Pas formerly chief financial officer of oil traders Addax and of the mineral house Oryx; and Engelbert Cooper a Liberian with a colourful business history under ex-Presidents Samuel Doe and Charles Taylor and later in South Africa...
Jammeh's links with Liberia's exiled warlord Charles Taylor did him little good...
Vol 46 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
But with the war in Côte d'Ivoire by no means over unemployed ex-fighters will be tempted to re-enlist and ex-President Charles Taylor exiled in Calabar keeps in touch...
Vol 45 No 25 |
- SIERRA LEONE
Meanwhile Liberian leader Charles Taylor remains safely in Calabar Nigeria resisting the Court's efforts to bring him to Freetown...
Former military leader Johnny Paul Koroma who forged a deadly alliance with the RUF that led to the rebels overrunning Freetown in 1997 is now on the run and the rebels' main backer Liberian former President Charles Taylor is living in exile in Calabar Nigeria...
Their fate is the subject of intense speculation with conspiracy theories ranging from links to Western intelligence plots in Sudan commercial rivalry between SA security companies the abduction of Liberian ex-President Charles Taylor wanted on war crimes from Nigeria a planned second assault by Chilean mercenaries and machinations by a major Western oil company...