A Catholic Modernity?: Charles Taylor's Marianist Award Lecture, with responses by William M. Shea, Rosemary Luling Haughton, George Marsden, and Jean Bethke Elshtain
All Africa (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Special Court for Sierra Leone judges has ordered prosecutors to disclose to the defense all new documents that they intend to use in the cross-examination of former Liberian president Charles Taylor who is responding to charges that he was involved in a joint criminal enterprise with rebel forces who waged an 11-years rebel war in Sierra Leone.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
A bank account opened in Charles Taylor’s name and worth millions of dollars was operated to fund “covert” operations on behalf of the government of Liberia – it was not a personal account used to squirrel away money for himself from activities including the trading of arms in exchange for Sierra Leone’s diamonds, as prosecutors’ allege — the accused former...
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
There is no question that recent media reports, which claimed that Bong County Senior Senator Jewel Howard-Taylor and Kadiatu Finley (a former associate of Charles Taylor) had spewed invectives on the President of Liberia during a CDC run-off campaign rally, have thrown the Liberian presidency into the web of a citizens' din.
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Prosecutors are narrowing in on former President Charles Taylor's testimony that he granted Liberian citizenship to Sierra Leone rebel leader Sam Bockarie and several of his fighters later hired for his Ant-Terrorist Unit, questioned the legality of his decision under the Liberian Constitution.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Prosecutors today questioned former Liberian president Charles Taylor on his decision to grant Liberian citizenship to Sierra Leonean rebel forces who relocated to Liberia in December 1999 after falling out with the Sierra Leonean rebel group's hierarchy.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Charles Taylor today told Special Court for Sierra Leone judges that he received money from both Taiwan and Libya as contributions to his campaign to become president of Liberia in 1997.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Charles Taylor today admitted that he sent his Chief of Protocol to accompany a Sierra Leonean rebel commander to Burkina Faso in 1998 but denied that he helped him transport arms and ammunition through Liberia for use by rebel forces in Sierra Leone.
i On Global Trends (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Former Liberian president Charles Taylor says he jailed foreign journalists because they were trying to assassinate him, not because they were investigating his alleged involvement with diamond smuggling in Sierra Leone. Mr. Taylor is facing an 11-count indictment of crimes against humanity before a U.N. special court in The Hague.While president of Liberia, Charles Taylor says a foreign
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Charles Taylor was "not honest" with the United Nations Panel of Experts set up to investigate his alleged dealings with Sierra Leonean rebels, prosecutors told the Special Court for Sierra Leone today during cross-examination of the accused former Liberian president.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The five American Catholic nuns widely believed to have been abused and brutally killed as National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) rebels advanced on Monrovia in their 1992 Operation Octopus were killed in crossfire and not deliberately by his fighters, Mr. Charles Taylor, as commander of the NPFL at the time, has claimed.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Prosecutors spent much of today's cross-examination of former Liberian president, Charles Taylor, reading out statements by other West African leaders condemning Mr. Taylor Liberian rebel group for crimes committed against Liberians and members of international humanitarian agencies, including American Catholic nuns and peacekeepers during his country's civil war.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
As Charles Taylor faced his second day of cross-examination, his defense counsel objected to prosecution attempts to introduce "fresh evidence" after its case was closed, calling it a trial by "ambush." Meanwhile, Mr. Taylor tried to distance himself from the types of acts committed during Sierra Leone's brutal conflict – such as fighters forcing a mother to laugh while they...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Prosecutors told Charles Taylor that he had "reason to lie" during his four months of testimony which he had spent rebutting charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity for his alleged role in crimes during Sierra Leone's brutal conflict — and that he needed to prepare to be "honest" in cross-examination, which started today in The Hague.
Sify (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor claimed Tuesday he was indicted for war crimes as part of a U.S. "regime change" plan to gain control of West African oil reserves, in a typically defiant
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