The disturbances that some expected after the Special Court for Sierra Leone in the Hague convicted and sentenced Charles Taylor did not materialise even in areas strongly loyal to the former President...
Vol 53 No 14 |
- LIBERIA
- NORWAY
A German neo-Nazi with many contacts in Britain Nick Wolfgang Greger has posted videos on the internet in support of Charles Taylor claiming Liberia’s ex-President is victim of a US conspiracy (AC Vol 53 No 12 Warning to future Taylors)...
The sentencing by the Special Court for Sierra Leone of Liberian ex-President Charles Taylor condemned by Moyo has been a wake-up call (AC Vol 53 No 12 Warning to future Taylors)...
In 2003 Gbagbo funded Model in the final round of fighting that pushed out President Charles Taylor...
Trial Chamber II of the United Nations-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone on 30 May sentenced Charles Ghankay Taylor to 50 years in prison for his central role in the vicious war in Sierra Leone...
Vol 53 No 10 |
- SIERRA LEONE
As Sierra Leone absorbs the guilty verdict on Liberian former President Charles Ghankay Taylor for ‘aiding and abetting’ Revolutionary United Front rebels the Revolutionary United Front Party a civilian political party formed from the RUF militia is back and will stand in November’s elections...
Few in Johnson Sirleaf’s entourage have an unblemished record but Browne served as National Security Advisor and later Foreign Minister to ex-President Charles Ghankay Taylor...
A former UN official he worked in Tanzania and earlier served as commander of the Cuban-trained ‘Black Berets’ a paramilitary force that interim President Amos Sawyer established to defend Monrovia from Charles Taylor’s forces...
Heavily armed ERU officers shut down Love FM which is owned by Benoni Urey a confidant of ex-President Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor and a key CDC supporter; King’s FM owned by George Tawlon Manneh Oppong Ousman Weah Tubman’s ex-international footballer running mate; and Shatta FM and Power FM owned by Aaron Kollie journalist and friend of Taylor...
The richest party ex-President Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor’s National Patriotic Party has three representatives and four senators...
On the platform flanked by Edwin Melvin Snowe and Lewis Browne both friends of ex-President Charles Taylor Johnson Sirleaf triumphally addressed the crowd at the Antoinette Tubman Stadium...