Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor's defence counsel argues that his client's indictment represents the use of a judicial instrument to manipulate an African head of state...

The President's alleged offence was to have had discussions in the late 1980s with Charles Taylor then fighting to overthrow the late brutal Samuel Doe...

The shadow over Compaoré is that Liberia's ex-President Charles Taylor may during his trial at the Sierra Leone Special Court sitting in the Hague produce some embarrassing revelations about their cooperation (AC passim)...

The trial of the RUF's main sponsor Liberian ex-President Charles Ghankay Taylor is under way in the Hague for security reasons and is expected to end in 2010...

Ouédraogo's disadvantage would be his holding office in President Blaise Compaoré's government with its record of human right abuses and sponsorship of murderous militias in Liberia and Sierra Leone (details of which are emerging from the trial of Compaoré's former ally Charles Taylor at the Hague)...

Buoyed by his success in negotiating a power-sharing deal between Côte’s d’Ivoire’s President Gbagbo and the northern-based FN rebels Compaoré now styles himself as a regional mediator in Francophone Africa after the fashion of Gabon's Omar Bongo but Liberians and Sierra Leoneans have less happy memories of his regional operations with Liberian warlord Charles Taylor...

A leaked due diligence report obtained by the London-based non-governmental organisation Global Witness together with a memorandum from the head of the Liberia Governance and Economic Management Assistance Programme (GEMAP) shows that among the companies being considered is one linked to a minister from the government of Charles Taylor the former President currently under indictment at the International Criminal Court in The Hague...

Many are grateful for the peace for which they thank the United Nations' 12 800-strong peacekeeping operation but they see little difference between the greedy Americo-Liberian elites (who ran the country under President Charles Taylor and former Chairman of the National Transitional Government Charles Gyude Bryant) and the ones in charge now under President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf...

She alluded to the threat posed by allies of ex-President Charles Taylor who think he will beat the charges in the Hague and make a comeback in Liberia...

The AU said it 'condemns the gross violations of human rights in Darfur' but reiterated its 'concern with the misuse of indictments against African leaders' (Whether this meant Habré or Liberian ex-President Charles Taylor was unclear)...