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Only the emotional Commissioner of Maritime Affairs, Benoni Urey, has broken ranks.Įnd of preview - This article contains approximately 1434 words.Īfrica Confidential's reporting and analysis is valued by a wide range of organisations and individuals: from corporate executives, country risk analysts, national politicians and members of the diplomatic corps, to intelligence operatives, academics, journalists and NGO personnel. Foreign Minister Moni Captan has kept public comment to a minimum through his sanctions task force, which includes Defence Minister Daniel Chea, Minister of Lands, Mines and Energy Jenkins Dunbar and the Governor of the Central Bank, Mohamed Selebi. Apart from being a 'preposterous' tale, the Post article was a crude attempt to swing the UN sanctions debate against Liberia, Goodridge insisted.

Taylor's Spokesman Reginald Goodridge restricted himself to a searing condemnation of a Washington Post article linking Taylor and the RUF's diamond mining operations in rebel-held Sierra Leone to Al Qaida. It also showed some progress on cleaning up abuse of the Liberian aviation registry and suggested that the ban on diamond exports might be lifted if Monrovia introduced a 'credible and verifiable' system of certificates of origin. The Report revealed that the government was still getting weapons, that it had not expelled Sierra Leone's rebel Revolutionary United Front (RUF, AC Vol 42 No 16) and that some of its officials had violated the UN travel ban. He and his advisors have made almost no denial of or other reaction to a long list of serious and well-documented allegations in the United Nations Panel of Experts' Report on Liberia, published on 26 October(1).

Old habits die hard 9th November 2001 A damning new UN report accuses Charles Taylor's regime of keeping ties with the RUF and busting sanctionsĪgainst all tradition, President Charles Taylor has turned taciturn.

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