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 ...
Decorum was thrown to the wind yesterday as a debate on the "State of the Nation" gave way to chaos, pitting honourable members of the House of Representatives against one another.
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.
The Kenyan Government on Sunday appeared to be having second thoughts about an agreement to arrest and hand over to the International Criminal Court election violence suspects.
Chinhoyi High School pupil, Moreblessing Musiiwa (16), was struck with a cricket bat once on the head and thrown into the swimming pool to make it appear he had drowned, it has emerged.
Amnesty International (AI) has urged African governments to re- affirm their commitment to the International Criminal Court (ICC).
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.
The lawyer representing the man who was deported for allegedly insulting President Ian Khama is contemplating taking the matter to the SADC Tribunal.
A majority of sixty-eight members of the Pan- African Parliament (PAP) have adopted the motion to exert pressure on the government of the Kingdom of Morocco to release the seven human rights activists that were "abducted upon their return from visiting their families in the Saharawi refugee camps."
A countrywide survey of the incidence of rape in Cameroon has returned disturbing statistics: 20 percent of the nearly 38,000 women surveyed reported having been raped; another 14 percent said they had escaped a rape attempt.
A coalition of Igbo organization under the aegis of Igbo bu Igbo has come against those criticizing Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu over his statement warning the Appeal Court sitting in Enugu against granting the prayers of the 2007 governorship candidate of People's Democratic Party (PDP) in Anambra State, Dr. Andy Uba, who wants to be confirmed as the governor in waiting in the state.
THREE more people have been picked up for questioning in connection with the death of Chinhoyi High School pupil Moreblessing Musiiwa, as police widen investigations.
Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon. Dimeji Bankole yesterday said over N700 billion revenue collected by federal government agencies this year is missing.
