The indiscriminate shelling of civilian areas by the rebel Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD) in the latest upsurge of fighting has removed any lingering hope that they might offer a viable alternative to President Charles Ghankay Taylor...
Next week the first component of 1 000 West African peacekeepers is due in Liberia to enforce a fragile ceasefire between President Charles Taylor's crumbling government and his rebel opponents...
Charles Taylor draws his road map President Taylor had hoped to spend his retirement as a cocoa and coffee farmer near Gbarnga revered as the 'Grandaddy of Liberian politics'...
The biggest risk faced by the West African peacekeepers shipping into Liberia is that embattled President Charles Taylor looks like the only man with a plan...
President Charles Taylor vowed to fight on as the rebels advanced through Bushrod Island and headed for Monrovia's city centre and the Executive Mansion...
Ghana's Foreign Minister Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo scorned suggestions that Ghana might deliver President Charles Taylor to the Sierra Leone Special Court and pronounced the indictment announcement as the talks opened an 'embarrassment'...
The Sierra Leone Special Court's indictment of President Charles Taylor leaves him little option but to fight to the death potentially taking the thousands of Liberians who have crammed into Monrovia with him...
To French embarrassment he has played an important role in mediating peace talks on Côte d'Ivoire and he hosted a meeting between Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo and Liberian leader Charles Taylor on 26 April...
Vol 44 No 11 |
- SIERRA LEONE
It has issued the first set of indictments which include the Sierra Leonean Minister for Internal Affairs Sam Hinga Norman and rebel Revolutionary United Front Commander Sam 'Mosquito' Bockarie a long-standing ally of Liberian President Charles Taylor...
The planned United Nations Security Council mission to West Africa will find President Charles Taylor in a tight corner...
President Charles Taylor in March 2003 told the press that Liberia had 'ordered arms'...
Vol 44 No 7 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
Unable to pay his troops President Charles Taylor has opened up a new front for them to loot in western Côte d'Ivoire...
The Special Court in Sierra Leone may yet indict Charles Taylor though arresting him would pose a certain number of problems...
