Taylor's ex-wife Jewel Howard-Taylor is Vice-President under President George Weah and heads the National Patriotic Party (NPP) which began its life as the political arm of her ex-husband's National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) and is part of the ruling coalition (AC Vol 61 No 5 George Weah at bay)...
Jewel fights backComplicating matters further are reports of a deepening rift between Weah and his Vice-President the highly influential ex-wife of former president Charles Taylor Jewel Howard-Taylor...
Members of the National Patriotic Party led formerly by Taylor and now by his ex-wife Jewel Howard-Taylor are a crucial component of Weah's victorious coalition and she now serves as Vice-President...
Shortly afterwards the US Embassy in Monrovia refused to grant a visa to Vice-President Jewel Taylor the ex-wife of former President Charles Taylor who is serving a 50-year sentence in Britain for war crimes and crimes against humanity and remains his most high-profile supporter in Liberia...
Of equal concern was Weah's choice of running mate: Jewel Howard-Taylor the ex-wife of jailed war criminal Charles Taylor...
Weah made Jewel Howard-Taylor Charles Taylor's ex-wife his running mate in order to benefit from residual support for the former Liberian leader (AC Vol 58 No 4 Taylor tries to sway vote)...
Others will be Bong County where Weah's running mate the convicted and imprisoned warlord Charles Taylor's former wife Jewel Taylor is a Senator...
Weah's running mate Senator Jewel Taylor is also seen as competent although many are uneasy about her relationship with her former husband the convicted war criminal Charles Taylor...
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His flirtation with convicted war criminal Charles Taylor – with whose National Patriotic Party he formed a coalition and whose ex-wife Jewel Taylor is his running mate – has not endeared him to many in Liberia or abroad (AC Vol 58 No 4 Taylor tries to sway vote & Vol 55 No 10 The men to follow Ellen)...
Announced in early November the three parties in the alliance are the Congress for Democratic Change led by its founder George Weah the former football star and veteran presidential campaigner; the National Patriotic Party (NPP) founded by Taylor and now led by his former wife Jewel Howard-Taylor; and the recently formed Liberia People's Democratic Party (LPDP) led by the disgraced former Speaker of the House of Representatives Alex Tyler...
Weah is standing for president and Jewel Taylor for vice-president...
