Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor

The most significant alliance is between the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) of former international footballer George Weah and the Liberty Party (LP) of Councillor Charles Walker Brumskine the former Senate leader in the regime of Charles Taylor 1997-2003...

The coalition includes some famous names: Charles Taylor’s National Patriotic Party (NPP) the Progressive Democratic Movement of former warlord Sekou Damate Conneh the erstwhile rebel Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy and the New Deal Movement...

Nimba County Senator Prince Johnson who has formed a political party the National Union for Democratic Progress draws on his former fighters – key youth activists of Charles Taylor...

Yet the adoption of the Freedom of Information Bill and the emergence of a feisty media suggest a democracy in rude health compared to the regimes of Charles Taylor Samuel Doe or William Tolbert...

Sirleaf’s most powerful allies include many of her Congo associates from her days in government under William Tolbert and others who worked under the kleptocracy of Charles Taylor and the corrupt transitional administration of Gyude Bryant...

Crane’s involvement in the Guinean imbroglio complicates matters for his former colleagues at the Sierra Leone Special Court now working on the trial of Liberian former President Charles Ghankay Taylor...

Taiwanese money also helped former Liberian warlord-turned-President Charles Taylor to win presidential elections in 1997...

Reminders recently surfaced of the dollar diplomacy heyday: in December Liberia’s former President Charles Taylor under indictment for crimes against humanity at the Hague testified at the Special Court for Sierra Leone that Taiwan had contributed $1 million during his 1996-97 presidential campaign to counter Chinese influence...

Even the President's critics praise her for adopting a new revenue code aimed at reducing tax burdens on corporate institutions individual incomes and imports lightening the burden imposed by the regime of Charles Taylor...

Wilkins Wright Solicitor General: Wright has plenty of courtroom experience as a High Court judge during Charles Taylor's rule and is Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Liberia's Law School...

The choice of Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaoré as chief mediator in Guinea's worsening crisis is curious given that the Burkinabé leader in league with Liberian warlord Charles Taylor had been plotting against the previous Guinean regime under Lieutenant General Lansana Conté: many of Conté's senior officers now serve Captain Moussa Dadis Camara's regime...

During Liberia's civil war Pivi who is Toma supported the rebels in their harassment of Charles Taylor's regime in Monrovia...