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Nobel winner Ellen Sirleaf faces challenge in today's election. Oct. 11, 2011 — -- The opposition party in Liberia, where elections are being held today, said it would welcome back former warlord ...

ABUJA, Nigeria -- Nigeria said Saturday it is ready to hand over Liberian warlord Charles Taylor to be the first former African head of state tried for crimes against humanity, making a reluctant move ...

A British court on Friday denied bail to an ex-wife of jailed former Liberian president Charles Taylor, ahead of her trial on charges of torture during his rebellion. Agnes Reeves Taylor, who lives in ...

LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) – Jan. 28, 1948: Charles Taylor born in Arthington, Liberia, into a family descended from freed American slaves. 1970s: Lives in Boston area, earning an economics degree ...

UNITED NATIONS, March 17 -- Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has asked Nigerian leader Olusegun Obasanjo and other African leaders to force Charles Taylor, Liberia's exiled former president, ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — Former Liberian President Charles Taylor left West Africa on Tuesday for the Netherlands for a long-awaited trial on charges of backing brutal rebels in Sierra Leone. Taylor ...

Fighters from the United Liberation Movement of Liberia shoot their way through downtown Monrovia, Liberia, April 16, 1996, during the West African country's civil war. Jean-Marc Bouju/AP/File By Ayen ...