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The ICC is not Africa’s enemy

Siphokazi Magadla by Siphokazi Magadla 15 October 201318 October 2013

On New Year’s Eve in 1989 in Monrovia, Liberia, 17-year old Leymah Gbowee was finishing high school and looking forward to starting university to study to become a doctor. Like many middle class Liberians at the time she did not think that the coup by Charles Taylor on 24 December 1989 from the outskirts of […]

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One man, two wars, one guilty verdict

Tutu Fellows by Tutu Fellows 30 April 201230 April 2012

by Robtel Neajai Pailey Much has changed since I covered the first day of Charles Taylor’s trial for Pambazuka News on June 4 2007. That day, he failed to show up to court, calling the case against him a “farce.” Last week, he was in full view, stoic, resolute and somber. As I sat in […]

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