Former Liberian president arrives at his homeland

    MONROVIA, March 29 (Xinhua) -- Former Liberian president Charles Taylor, arrested in northeast Nigeria on Wednesday morning 24 hours after his escape, arrived at his homeland, where UN peacekeepers were waiting to arrest him on charges of war crimes. <<Full Story

Former Liberian president on way to homeland

    LAGOS, March 29 (Xinhua) -- Former Liberian president Charles Taylor has left Nigeria and is being flown home to Liberia by a Nigerian presidential jet on Wednesday. <<Full Story

Liberia's Taylor arrested, awaiting possible handover

    LAGOS, March 29 (Xinhua) -- Former Liberian president Charles Taylor, who disappeared from his residence in the country's southeast one day ago, has been detained and likely be expelled soon, a Nigerian police spokesman said on Wednesday. <<Full Story

Nigeria police confirm Liberia's Taylor detained

    LAGOS, March 28 (Xinhua) -- Nigerian police have confirmed to Xinhua on Wednesday that former Liberian president Charles Taylor has been detained. <<Full Story

Liberia's Taylor disappears after asylum termination

    LAGOS, March 28 (Xinhua) -- Former Liberian leader Charles Taylor, wanted for war crimes by a UN-backed court, has "disappeared" from his residence in Nigeria which terminated his asylum three days ago, the Nigerian government said on Tuesday. <<Full Story

Taylor's disappearance puts west Africa on alert

    LAGOS, March 28 (Xinhua) -- The UN-backed special court in Sierra Leone said on Tuesday the disappearance of former Liberian leader Charles Taylor put the whole west Africa on the highest alert and urged regional leaders to take all necessary steps to locate him. <<Full Story

Nigeria: Exiled Taylor disappears

    LAGOS, March 28 (Xinhua) -- Former Liberian leader Charles Taylor, wanted for war crimes by a UN-backed court in Sierra Leone, has "disappeared" from his residence in Nigeria which terminated his asylum three days ago, the Nigerian presidency said on Tuesday. <<Full Story

Profile: Wanted ex-president of Liberia Charles Taylor

    LAGOS, March 26 (Xinhua) -- The prosecutor for the UN-backed special court in Sierra Leone, Desmond de Silva, on Sunday asked Nigeria to arrest exiled former Liberian president Charles Taylor to prevent him from escaping.

US: Nigeria must guarantee Taylor goes to war crime court

    WASHINGTON, March 28 (Xinhua) -- The United States said on Tuesday that Nigeria must make sure that Liberian war crimes suspect Charles Taylor is handed over to an international court. <<Full Story

UN resolution expected to effect Taylor's handover

    MONROVIA, March 27 (Xinhua) -- The Liberian government is expecting a UN Security Council resolution to send exiled former president Charles Taylor directly to the UN-backed special court in Sierra Leone after Nigeria agreed to terminate his asylum. <<Full Story

UN-backed court asks Nigeria to arrest Liberia's Taylor

    LAGOS, March 26 (Xinhua) -- The prosecutor for the UN-backed special court in Sierra Leone, Desmond de Silva, on Sunday asked Nigeria to arrest exiled former Liberian president Charles Taylor. <<Full Story

Liberia requests extradition of Taylor

    LAGOS, March 17 (Xinhuanet) -- Nigeria confirmed on Friday that Liberia had formally requested the extradition of its former president Charles Taylor, who has been in exile in the west African country for two and a half years. <<Full Story

Obasanjo, Mbeki discuss fate of Liberia's Taylor

    LAGOS, March 13 (Xinhuanet) -- Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has met his South African counterpart Thabo Mbeki over the fate of exiled former Liberian leader Charles Taylor, a presidential statement said on Monday. <<Full Story

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