Charles Taylor did not plan any operations with Sierra Leonean rebels during the country's 11-year civil conflict, he told Special Court for Sierra Leone judges today at his trial in The Hague.
Charles Taylor today accused Britain of transporting arms to Sierra Leone in violation of a United Nations arms embargo on the country, and of using him as a scapegoat by falsely accusing him of responsibility for the flow of arms into the country. Mr. Taylor also denied widespread press and investigative reports that the terrorist group, Al Qaeda, traded diamonds with Sierra Leonean rebels under ...
Charles Taylor did not order the execution of Sierra Leonean rebel commander Sam Bockarie, but rather sent his former vice president Moses Blah to arrest him on the Liberian border with Ivory Coast, the accused former Liberian president told Special Court for Sierra Leone judges in The Hague today.
Although a UN group, headed by former Kenyan Attorney General Amos Wako, concluded that infamous Cater Camp Massacre in Fireston was the work of soldiers of the Armed Forced of Liberia, the TRC has disputed the findings, saying rebels to Mr. Charles Taylor executed the masscre.
Former Liberia President Charles Taylor who is being tried by the UN-back court for Sierra Leone in The Hague for crimes he allegedly committed in the neighbouring country, has confessed to sending fighters to help rebels inflict mayhem on civilians during the 11-year war in the country.
A coalition of Guinean opposition leaders has presented President Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso a set of proposals they believe will end the political crisis precipitated by a military takeover in Guinea last December, reports Sidwaya from Ouagadougou.
President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua yesterday sought the endorsement of the National Assembly for a N352.2 billion supplementary appropriation to enable the Federal Government address emerging challenges of the post-amnesty period in the Niger Delta region.
A top UN official Monday revealed that France and other European countries were being pressured to act on leaders of the FDLR militia.
Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), is threatening to call off ceasefire with the government if foreign oil companies do not leave the area.
At least 8 people were killed and more than 17 others injured in Heavy fighting between Somali government forces and insurgents in south and northern Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses said.
SECURITY is investigating reports that a number of Al Shabaab Islamists have entered the country following their threat to strike Kampala and Bujumbura last month.
Sheikh Hassan Yakoub Ali, the Information Officer of the Islamist Al Shabaab in Juba region, has accused Kenya of being hostile to his movement.
The Vice President, Dr.Goodluck Jonathan, has described the completion and commissioning of the Dr. Goodluck Jonathan Bridge in Swali, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, as an addition to the gains of the amnesty period and a testament to the spate of infrastructural development that is bound to follow the achievement of peace in the Niger Delta region.
The minister of state for Defence, Alhaji Abdulrahman Adamu, has promised ex-biafrian soldiers that their case for payment of pensions and gratuities would be taken before President Umaru Yar'Adua for his considerations.
Somalia's Ahlul-Sunna Waljama'a group which control most of Galgadud region has on Sunday displayed a uniformed military outfit that would maintain the security to the region.
