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...taking office in January that prosecuting Taylor was less a concern than reconstruction. But international donors, including the U.S. and the European Union, demanded as a condition of aid that Johnson-Sirleaf ask Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo to turn over Taylor. "The pressure was more than just political pressure," Samuel Kofi Woods, Liberia's Labor Minister, told TIME. "It also had to do with the development of Liberia...
MONROVIA -- The civil war in Liberia is about hatred: personal hatred based on political rivalry, brutally used to turn tribe against tribe. Charles Taylor, head of the rebel National Patriotic Liberation Front, and President Samuel Doe, the harsh ruler of the country's 2.5 million people for the past decade, loathe each other. Says Taylor: "The only good Doe is a dead Doe." In the past eight months Taylor's 10,000-member army has overrun most of the country, leaving only small pieces of Monrovia, the capital, in Doe's control and setting the Gio tribe, which supports Taylor...
MONROVIA -- The murderous civil war in Liberia has reached so volatile a state that on my first day in Monrovia, the capital, I found myself on both sides of the fighting without ever having changed position; suddenly the struggle swirled around my companions and me and engulfed us. President Samuel K. Doe, the man whose ouster rebel forces sought when they began fighting 10 months ago, has been dead for six weeks, but violence, hunger and general chaos continue to hold Liberia in a bloody embrace. An estimated 10,000 Liberians, most of them civilians, have been killed since...
...minutes before the end of a soccer match last month between Spanish Primera Liga leaders Barcelona and rivals Real Zaragoza when Samuel Eto'o decided he'd had enough. Shouting "No mas!" the Barcelona striker turned abruptly and began to walk off the pitch. The chorus of ape noises from the stands at Zaragoza's Romareda stadium, which had sounded each time the Cameroon-born striker touched the ball, erupted louder than ever. Although the referee, other players and his coach eventually persuaded him to stay, Eto'o knew what he was doing. "This is a struggle beyond the football...
...Staff writer Samuel P. Jacobs can be reached at jacobs@fas.harvard.edu...