Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor

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...

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...

Former warlord and current Senator Prince Yormie Johnson of the National Union for Democratic Progress from Nimba County named as his vice-presidential running mate James Laveli Supuwood one of former leader Charles Ghankay Taylor’s defence lawyers at his war crimes trial at the Special Court for Sierra Leone in the Hague...

Jonathan led a strange coalition of ‘democracy enforcers’ in Ecowas alongside Burkina Faso’s President Blaise Compaoré an improbable enthusiast of free elections given his history as the beneficiary of a putsch which killed his childhood friend Thomas Sankara and as a political and business ally of Liberian warlord Charles Taylor who is awaiting a verdict after his long trial for war crimes at the Special Court for Sierra Leone in the Hague...

Muthaura's British lawyer Karim Ahmad Khan who defended former Liberian President Charles Ghankay Taylor at the Special Court for Sierra Leone also at the Hague stressed that his client had not made 'any adverse comments' or done anything that would be a 'cause for concern' and did not want the public listening in Kenya to think otherwise...