Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor

Some fear that Gueï's supporters might take up arms with or without help from President Charles Taylor...

Discussion grew animated when British and French officials were asked if their views on Presidents Charles Taylor's and Blaise Compaoré's support for the Revolutionary United Front had indeed converged...

Links between Jammeh's regime and Charles Taylor's in Liberia provoke more interest...

Banya failed to win the argument for sanctions against Liberia in the Economic Community of West African States: at first Guinean President Lansana Conteh's and Kabbah's governments were totally outmanoeuvred by Liberian President Charles Taylor and Burkina Faso's Blaise Compaoré and their ally Malian President Alpha Oumar Konaré current chairman of ECOWAS...

Regionally the RUF is under pressure because of the troubles of its chief foreign sponsor Charles Taylor who is trying to distance himself from RUF operations...

Shaw who unsuccessfully sued South African newspapers for libel is a close associate of Liberian President Charles Taylor...

Beyond arrangements to swap personnel and intelligence British officials believe they have persuaded French colleagues to look more closely at the links between Burkina Faso's Blaise Compaoré and Liberia's Charles Taylor and the spreading war in West Africa...

Guinean security was not discussed: Presidents Lansana Conté Tejan Kabbah and Charles Taylor were not present...

There is method in Liberia's and Burkina Faso's new strategy: pressure is mounting on Presidents Charles Taylor and Blaise Compaoré after a series of UN reports detailing the involvement of senior Monrovia and Ouagadougou officials in gun-running and gem-smuggling from RUF-held areas of Sierra Leone...

Ingredients for war As in the wars in Liberia Sierra Leone and Guinea it may be politic to blame the crisis on a few evil men - Liberia's warlord-turned-President Charles Taylor and Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaoré (accused of gun-running and diamond-smuggling in two UN reports)...

Gueï's Yacouba people are known as Gios in Liberia and were the backbone of Charles Taylor's guerrilla force during the civil war there...