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Diendéré also holds the secrets of Compaoré's relations with Libya's late Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi and Liberia's gaoled ex-President Charles Taylor...

Links with former President and warlord Charles Taylor have proven damaging for Urey's international image...

Stephen's sanguine treatment of the appalling excesses of Charles Taylor and his followers including cannibalism saw him excoriated for supposed racism and may have cost him a book prize but he was completely vindicated on the world stage when Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission called him as an expert witness in 2008...

Factional leaders such as Charles Taylor cynically partook on a perversion of this last atrocity to gain legitimacy and broad support in the now corrupted Liberian society...

Earlier Stephen was an expert witness at the opening of the trial of former President Charles Taylor at the Special Court for Sierra Leone at the Hague in January 2008...

The state sponsors of war and terror have been eclipsed: Gadaffi is dead Charles Taylor is in gaol and Compaoré in exile...

Despite the Special Court for Sierra Leone's conviction in 2012 of ex-President Charles Taylor a lot of guilty men are still free...

France which had protected him from prosecution over his close ties with convicted war criminal Charles Taylor and the bloody insurgencies in Liberia and Sierra Leone was reluctantly looking for a new regional ally...

We reported last September that Ibrahim Bah the former warlord who worked with Liberian ex-President Charles Taylor and was under United Nations' sanctions had brokered an introduction for France's MagForce International to Konteh then Trade Minister (AC Vol 54 No 18 Bah reveals official links)...

No such issues afflict Benoni Urey who until December was subject to a United Nations' travel ban and assets freeze because of his past relationship with former President and now convicted war criminal Charles Taylor (AC Vol 43 No 9 UN gumshoes in Taylorland)...

Soon after taking office in 2006 Johnson-Sirleaf promised to govern 'differently decisively breaking from the past' after the brutal regimes of President Charles Taylor and Samuel Doe as well as 100 years of Americo-Liberian hegemony when the country was dominated by a handful of families...