Professor Kpormakpor remembered as a great leader. Will be buried in Bomi Running Africa Professor Kpormakpor, a former Law Professor at the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law at the University of Liberia, a former Associate Justice of the … Late Professor David Dower Kpormakpor to be laid to rest in New Jersey today.Running Africa all 3 news articles »

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In concluding his evidence today as the 19th defense witness for Charles Taylor, Issa Hassan Sesay, the convicted former interim leader of the Sierra Leonean rebel group which Mr. Taylor is accused of supporting, used the opportunity to apologise to the people of Sierra Leone for his role in the conflict and the actions of his Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebel group.

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Former Liberian interim leader dies in US African Press Agency (subscription) APA-Monrovia (Liberia) The former Chairman of Liberia's Transitional Council of State (1994-1995), Professor David Kpormakpor, has died in the United States …

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Prosecutors today questioned the convicted former interim leader of the Sierra Leonean rebel group that Charles Taylor is accused of supporting about the friendship between the former Liberian president and the Sierra Leonean rebel group’s main leader, Foday Sankoh – a friendship prosecutors say predates the invasion of Sierra Leone in March 1991.

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A former Sierra Leonean rebel leader testifying for Charles Taylor today told the Special Court for Sierra Leone judges in The Hague that all the discussions he had with the former Liberian president focused mainly on how to bring the conflict in Sierra Leone to an end.

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The leader of the military junta that ruled Sierra Leone from May 1997 to February 1998 did not have any communications with Charles Taylor, former interim rebel leader Issa Hassan Sesay told Special Court for Sierra Leone judges in The Hague today.

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As the trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor resumed this week, the convicted former interim leader of the Sierra Leonean rebel group which Mr. Taylor is accused of supporting continued distancing Mr. Taylor from the activities of his rebel group during Sierra Leone’s bloody civil conflict that lasted from 1991 to 2002.

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