A man prosecutors say once identified himself as a former bodyguard to ex-Liberian president and convicted war criminal Charles Taylor admitted ... s brutal back-to-back civil wars in the 1990s ...

Despite the fact that the past two post-war governments failed to establish a war and economic crimes court as key suspects ...

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor is to be sentenced for ... During the Sierra Leone civil war, Taylor supported Revolutionary United Front rebels who killed tens of thousands of people.

More than 600 civilians have been killed in Liberia's capital Monrovia in fighting ... key bridges in their battle against President Charles Taylor. The dead were mostly among tens of thousands ...

Thousands of people gathered in northern Liberia ... creation of a war crimes court – claiming that such a move could destabilise the country. After another warlord Charles Taylor, Liberia's ...

Around 250,000 people were killed in Liberia's civil wars ... The country's former leader Charles Taylor was, however, convicted in 2012 of committing war crimes in neighbouring Sierra Leone.

Given the background of a brutal seven-year civil war, Liberia's transition process was slow and shaky. Three years after a U.N.-supervised election brought former faction leader Charles Taylor to ...

Could the USA have prevented Liberia's disintegration into civil war? America's strategic ... 1990], to meet with Charles Taylor [rebel leader and Liberia's current president], to go into the ...

That city is the capital of the West African nation of Liberia, which has been left, after 10 years of brutal civil ... Charles Taylor, who is now in exile in Nigeria and under U.N. indictment as ...

Thousands of people gathered in northern Liberia ... creation of a war crimes court - claiming that such a move could destabilise the country. After another warlord Charles Taylor, Liberia's ...

Although President Charles Taylor declared ... President Taylor took office following an election in July 1997 that ended a brutal seven-year civil war. A former faction leader during the war ...