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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor, now convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity in relations to atrocities committed in Sierra Leone, has stressed the need for former US President George W. Bush to be prosecuted for similar crimes. Taylor made the call in his first post-verdict special statement he read before judges of the Special Court for Sierra Leone
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The Hague - Sierra Leone's UN-backed war crimes court will hear arguments on Wednesday on the sentencing of Liberian warlord Charles Taylor, who has been convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Prosecutors before the Special Court for Sierra Leone are to say why they think Taylor, 64, should receive an 80-year term in a British jail, while his
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Monrovia - Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said late on Monday the west African nation will get high-speed internet from October, as it connects to a fibre optic cable running along the west African coast. She was speaking at a ceremony to open the Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) terminal in Monrovia which hosts the submarine fibre optic cable system.
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Prosecutors in the trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor have said that he should be handed an 80-year sentence following his war crimes conviction in The Hague last week. In a brief, the team told the Special Court for Sierra Leone that the "extreme magnitude" of the crimes he committed warranted the long-term sentence. The 64-year old was found
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The chief prosecutor in the trial of Charles Taylor has suggested an 80-year sentence after the Liberian former president's conviction for war crimes, according to a document made public Thursday. The prosecutor said the term would be fair given Taylor's role in arming and aiding rebels who killed and mutilated thousands in neighbouring Sierra Leone during the 1991-2001 civil war,
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Civil Law Court Judge Yussif D. Kaba on Monday halted hearing into the case involving the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Oil Company of Liberia, Mr. Robert Sirleaf and two local newspapers, as well as an official of the Congress for Democratic Change or CDC, Jefferson Koijee. Public sentiments and politics are reported to have compelled
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The Head Coach of the Liberia national Athletics team says the team is in high spirit for the London 2012 Olympics games. The London 2012 Olympics games are scheduled for July this year. Liberia qualified for the tournament after winning two medals (one gold and one bronze) at All African Games in Mozambique in last year. Following the All African
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The conviction of Liberian ex-president Charles Taylor on Thursday sends a "powerful message" to all war criminals, the United States said, hailing the "enormous" historical milestone. Taylor is expected to be jailed in Britain after he is sentenced on 30 May, ending five years of hearings at the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone. "The conviction of Mr Taylor for
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Monrovia - Liberians shed few tears for Charles Taylor after their ex-president was found guilty of war crimes on Thursday but there were fears his conviction could undermine a still fragile peace. A large number of Liberian police and UN soldiers were deployed in down town Monrovia as a UN-backed court handed down its verdict on Taylor for fuelling war-time
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Liberian ex-leader Charles Taylor was convicted Thursday of arming rebels during Sierra Leone's civil war in return for blood diamonds, in an historic verdict for international justice. In the first judgement against a former head of state by a world court since the World War II Nuremberg trials, Taylor was found guilty of 11 counts of war crimes and crimes
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Liberian ex-president Charles Taylor will hear a historic verdict Thursday on charges of arming Sierra Leone's rebels in return for "blood diamonds" in the 1990s. Samoan judge Richard Lussik will start reading the decision -- the first ever judgment against a former head of state by an international court -- at 11:00 am (0900 GMT) at the Special Court for
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Leidschendam - Liberian former leader Charles Taylor awaits a verdict on Thursday on charges of arming Sierra Leone's rebels in return for "blood diamonds" in the 1990s. A three-judge bench will read the historic decision - the first verdict against a former head of state by an international court - at 11:00 at the Special Court for Sierra Leone in
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It may have seemed endless, but the hour of justice is now barely 2 weeks away. Judges of the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone will decide whether Mr. Charles Taylor bears the greatest responsibility for the war crimes in neighbouring Sierra Leone, or whether he is the subject of lies for political reasons as he and his lawyers have
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Since President Johnson-Sirleaf said during an interview with reporters from The Guardian that she has no intention to sign any Gay legislation, the news went around the world that she has given her support to anti-gay laws in Liberia. The Guardian only did not publish her statement but gave a misleading headline to the article. Since then, the paper published
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Monrovia - Liberia on Wednesday pledged to support the restoration of the rule of law in Mali following a coup, but said it would not send troops to do so. "The government of Liberia will stand by the Malians in making sure that the rule of democracy is restored," Minister of State Conmany Wesseh said. Liberia's president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
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Monrovia - An anti-gay organisation in Liberia is distributing a hit list and threatening to target the seven people one by one. Fliers with the names of the seven were put up over the weekend and signed by a group calling itself the Movement Against Gay's in Liberia, or MOGAL. It's the latest development in an increasingly hostile national debate
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One of the four sons of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Mr. Robert A. Sirleaf, has filed a US $11 million Libel Suit against the Independent Newspaper, Analyst Newspaper and Mr. Jefferson Koijee, Head of Auxiliaries, Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) of the City of Monrovia, Liberia. Mr. Sirleaf, who is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Oil
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Monrovia - Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Nobel Peace Laureate, on Friday defended her country's stand on gay rights after controversy following an interview she gave to a British newspaper. Sirleaf came under fire after the Guardian published a video interview in which she is asked about decriminalising homosexuality and replies: "We like ourselves the way we are." Looking
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An international media freedom group says it has asked Liberia's president to intervene to stop death and mutilation threats against a journalist over her reporting on female circumcision. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists says reporter Mae Azango is in hiding in the West African nation after receiving death threats and messages that she will be "caught and cut".
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Information available to this paper indicates that ex-president Charles Taylor is said to be putting together a legal team to push for his severance benefits for services he rendered here as former president of the Republic of Liberia, an aide has disclosed. Mr. Taylor currently faces 11 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity for allegedly arming Sierra Leonean
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Liberia's gay rights activist, Mr. Archie Ponpon, has diverted his campaign of ensuring gay rights in Liberia on facebook, a global social networking site, just days after he escaped the wrath of angry mob in Monrovia. It can be recalled that recently, Mr. Ponpon escaped a mob action after appearing on the Truth Breakfast Show on Truth FM to continue
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In the wake of his illegal expulsion from the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC), Cllr. Winston A. Tubman on Monday said farewell to party politics in Liberia, but assured that CDC will wrestle power in 2017; but cautioned it against dashing the hope of Liberians upon assuming political power. Tubman official resignation from party politics followed his controversial leadership role
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The United Nations-backed court set up to try suspects indicted for war crimes in Sierra Leone announced today that the judgment in the trial of the former Liberian President, Charles Taylor, will be delivered on 26 April. Mr. Taylor is on trial before the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) on 11 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity,
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Judges trying former Liberian president Charles Taylor for crimes against humanity during the civil war in Sierra Leone will hand down their verdict on April 26, court officials said on Thursday. Taylor, 64, the first African head of state to face an international tribunal, will learn his fate more than a year after his so-called "blood diamonds" trial in the
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Madina, Liberia — Fiercely contested during different stages of Liberia's civil war, the western region of Grand Cape Mount County now plays host to a very different kind of confrontation. On a recent hot Saturday afternoon, tempers flared outside a school building in the village of Madina as organizers tried to work out who could and could not attend the
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