Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor

Liberian President Charles Taylor who in the past has had good relations with Paris was conspicuously absent...

President Charles Taylor may be too busy dealing with the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy as well as Liberians on both sides of the conflict in western Côte d'Ivoire to threaten Sierra Leone now...

Containing Liberian President Charles Taylor is one priority while in Guinea President Lansana Conté's declining health (he has just returned from three weeks in hospital in Morocco being treated for diabetes) is another destabilising factor...

Liberian President Charles Taylor who has called elections for 15 October stands accused of harbouring Al Qaida diamond-buyers as well as breaking UN sanctions...

Liberian President Charles Taylor - who launched his own rebel movement with an invasion from the Danané region in 1989 - made the symbolic gesture of closing the border except to refugees and even expressed concern that the Ivorian conflict could destabilise Liberia...

Drop the dead donkey Gadaffi has apparently dropped troublesome allies such as Liberian President Charles Taylor and Western observers say he has been helpful in the Rwanda/Congo-Kinshasa peace deal...

Dropping Liberia's Charles Taylor and the planned troop withdrawal from Central African Republic will ease concern in the West's Africa departments but some of Gadaffi's other friendships are problematic notably with Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe...

Italian police investigating Leonid Minin who was a business ally of Liberian President Charles Taylor and now faces charges of arms and diamond smuggling have identified payments between Minin and Avient Ltd's British bank account...

Welcoming the new United States Ambassador to Monrovia John Blaney on 3 October Liberian President Charles Taylor ­ never one to miss an opportunity for some good publicity ­ called for curbs on West African mercenaries...

Liberian leader Charles Taylor highly skilled at profiting from instability can hope to see some pressure on his regime lifted as international attention focuses on Iraq and the regional focus moves next door...