TheCable: Liberia charges ex-VP Howard-Taylor with drug trafficking after $317m cocaine bust
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Charles Taylor
Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor is a Liberian former politician. He served as the 22nd president of Liberia from 2 August 1997 until his resignation on 11 August 2003 as a result of the Second Liberian Civil War and growing international pressure. After leaving office, he was found guilty of war crimes committed in the Sierra Leone Civil War, and was sentenced to 50 years in prison.
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politics · President of Liberia from 1997 to 2003 · politician · warlord · also Charles Taylor, Charles Taylor (Liberian politician), Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor, Taylor
Born 28 January 1948 · Q49090
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2026· 8 entries
Yen News: Charles Taylor's Ex-Wife Charged Over Drug Smuggling and Money Laundering Offences
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allAfrica.com: Arrest of Liberia's Former VP Howard-Taylor Sparks Political Rift
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thestreetjournal.org: Jewel Howard-Taylor, Liberia’s ex VP charged for drug trafficking, money laundering, others
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PitchBook: Ares set to take control of UK insurance services firm Charles Taylor
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Legacy obituary: Charles Taylor Obituary (1952 - 08/11/2026) - Virginia Beach, VA - Daily Progress
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Dignity Memorial: Charles Taylor Obituary - Virginia Beach, VA
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Jewel Howard-Taylor announced the death of their son, Charles Phillip Taylor Jr
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2024· 1 entry
“Exclusive: Jewel Howard Taylor on election defeat, Charles Taylor and rocky alliance with George Weah”
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2014· 1 entry
Victoria was denied a visa to visit her husband while he serves his sentence in the United Kingdom
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2011· 1 entry
He was arrested by Liberian police officials on 5 March 2011 and charged with attempted murder in connection with an assault on the son of an immigration officer who had assisted in Charles Taylor's extradition; the mother of the victim claimed that Phillip Taylor had sworn vengeance against the immigration officer.
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2007· 1 entry
To dovetail into existing international tribunals' legislation, to enable the UK government to meet its 2006 offer to imprison Taylor if convicted
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2006· 2 entries
After entering the United States and was charged with three counts, including participation in torture while serving in the Anti-Terrorist Unit in Liberia during his father's presidency
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The newly elected president of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, formally requested his extradition
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2005· 1 entry
Citing her husband's exile in Nigeria and the difficulty of visiting him due to a UN travel ban on her
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2003· 2 entries
“s Newshour programme that it was irrelevant that he was not convicted on all charges.”
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Members of the Krahn tribe founded a rebel group, the Movement for Democracy in Liberia (MODEL), opposing Taylor
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1999· 1 entry
A rebellion against Taylor began in northern Liberia, led by a group calling itself Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD)
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1998· 1 entry
Taylor attempted to murder one of his political opponents, the former warlord Roosevelt Johnson, causing clashes in Monrovia, during and after which hundreds of Krahn were massacred and hundreds more fled Liberia
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1997· 2 entries
Taylor married Jewel Taylor, with whom he has one son
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Career landmark: President of Liberia (1997–2003).
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1996· 1 entry
Taylor ran for president in the 1997 general election
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1994· 1 entry
Before "extraordinary rendition" in an attempt to prevent U
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1992· 1 entry
Before the end of the civil war and settled in the United Kingdom where she was a lecturer at Coventry University
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1989· 1 entry
As the head of a Libyan-backed rebel group, the National Patriotic Front of Liberia, to overthrow the Doe government, initiating the First Liberian Civil War (1989–1996)
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1986· 1 entry
According to Trial international, Charles Taylor and Agnes Reeves Taylor married in Ghana in 1986.
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1977· 1 entry
Taylor earned a degree at Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
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1948· 1 entry
Born 1948-01-28.
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