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...
Although Johnson Sirleaf was criticised for her early encouragement of Charles Taylor’s military campaign to oust Samuel Doe’s regime she quickly disassociated herself from that camp when she saw its brutal excesses...
This obliged the government to revert to the old passports issued during Charles Taylor’s rule in 1998 or those provided by the Economic Community of West African States...
Taylor was intelligence chief in Charles Taylor’s regime in 1997-2003...
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...
