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...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 3 |
- TAIWAN
- AFRICA
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...
Pictures in the Nairobi Daily Nation of Liberia's ex-President Charles Taylor defending himself against war-crimes charges in The Hague are a sharp reminder to those who masterminded the 2007 post-election violence...
Taylor takes the stand At last Charles Taylor gets his day in court...
Truth awaits reconciliation On the Liberian street Charles Taylor remains surprisingly popular...
This is despite a recommendation from Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) barring her and several others from public office for 30 years after they had admitted to supporting Charles Taylor's war against the Samuel Doe regime...
'Even Charles Taylor has confirmed in his testimony at The Hague that she was not only a financier but a founder of the NPFL [National Patriotic Front of Liberia] rebel movement...
