Five years after the Liberian warlord, Charles Taylor, was hauled off to the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague, his name still sends a shiver down the spine of many West Africans. Taylor was charged with eleven counts for war crimes and crimes against humanity that he allegedly committed in neighbouring Sierra Leone, during the brutal eleven-year war that raged there. On 11 March of this year, the trial came to an end and the verdict has yet to be decided.

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