Word: taylorism
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...trappings of a failed state are few. Liberian President Charles Taylor announced his resignation in a small, stuffy auditorium in the executive mansion, where the curtains consist of cheap red velvet and the chairs are painted gold. The mirrors on the pillars were dirty and paint-speckled, and the microphone volume waxed and waned. The traditional venue for state ceremonies, the Centennial Memorial Pavilion, lay too close to the front line. Until a last week, mortar shells had been falling all around...
...couple hundred Nigerian peacekeepers finally arrived at an airport more than 40 km outside the Liberian capital. The battle that had claimed at least 1,000 lives seemed over. But even as the city stuttered back toward normalcy, a troubling question hung over the peace: Would President Charles Taylor keep his promise to leave the country, as the rebels demanded? "He has to resign and leave the country," says General Seyeah Sheriff, the rebels' chief of staff, his manic eyes squirming under his red beret. "As long as he lives in Liberia, he stays President. As long as he doesn...
...long as ... Taylor lives in Liberia, he stays President. As long as he doesn't leave, we will attack him - SEYEAH SHERIFF, rebel chief of staff
...Taylor's not a man who can sit quietly," says the Archbishop of Monrovia, Michael Kpakala Francis. "He will try to destabilize whatever government is sitting here." Taylor's support of armed rebellions in nearby countries has turned his neighbors against him, too. Nigeria has gone out on a limb to offer him asylum, and a rejection would earn its enmity. His resignation strips him of presidential immunity, and leaves him vulnerable to arrest by Liberian authorities. Taylor's aides have been calling for his indictment to be lifted before he leaves the country, gambling that a little ambiguity over...
...Died. Foday Sankoh, 65, leader of a rebel group in Sierra Leone infamous for its brutality; in Freetown, Sierra Leone. After receiving guerrilla warfare training in Libya with future ally Charles Taylor, Sankoh took command of the Revolutionary United Front, which, from 1991 to 2001, made a trademark of hacking off the limbs of rival fighters and noncombatants before U.N. intervention forced a cease-fire. Sankoh, arrested in 2000, died while waiting to face war crime charges and, according to David Crane, chief prosecutor for the U.N.-sponsored war crimes court for Sierra Leone, was "granted a peaceful end that...